[Openmcl-devel] Using Cocoa with MCL

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 08:56 PM, Randall Beer wrote:

> or (a fairly direct Lispification of the ObjC names and method 
> structure)
>
> (make-instance 'ns-window
>     :init-with-content-rect graphicsRect
>     :styleMask
>     (bit-ior *ns-titled-window-mask*
>                  *ns-closable-window-mask*
>                  *ns-miniaturizable-window-mask*)
>     :backing *ns-backing-store-buffered*
>     :defer nil)
> (send w :set-title "My Window")

I think this style would be best. Doesn't it resemble how you approach 
cocoa programming from java ? If I remember it correctly, the objc-java 
bridge is automatically (automagically?) generated from the original 
header files.

This style strikes me as a nice compromise: if it could be auto 
generated, you can track the libraries much better, maybe it would even 
be possible to autogenerate documentation... On the other hand, it 
feels almost like lisp, and it would still be possible to convert objc 
or java code to lisp.

A point that I missed in this discussion is how to map the cocoa memory 
management to a full gc'ed world. I always wondered how they do it in 
the objc-java bridge. What I hate about objc/cocoa is this stupied 
retain/release stuff - could we make it go away ?

Sven

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