[Openmcl-devel] Trying to use AddressBook

[Ralph Richard Cook]

I'm having some trouble. I (believe I) successfully made the  
AddressBook FFI; I have a file about 4 megs big that looks like it  
has AddressBook constants, includes etc. in it.

 From within OpenMCL I try

CL-USER> (in-package :ccl)
#<Package "CCL">
CCL> (parse-standard-ffi-files :addressbook)

and get

value #<Unbound> is not of the expected type (OR STRING SYMBOL  
CHARACTER).
    [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

Restarts:
   0: [ABORT] Abort handling SLIME request.
   1: [ABORT-BREAK] Reset this process
   2: [ABORT] Kill this process

Backtrace:
   0: (STRING 'NIL)
   1: (CCL::STRING-START-END "ABPropertyType" #<Unbound> 0)
   2: (STRING= "ABPropertyType" #<Unbound>)
   3: (CCL::%HASH-PROBE #<HASH-TABLE :TEST STRING= size 0/60  
#x8653426> 'NIL #<HASH-TABLE-VECTOR  #x8653496>)
   4: (GETHASH "ABPropertyType" 'NIL "ABPropertyType")
   5: (CCL::FIND-OR-CREATE-FFI-TYPEDEF ':TYPE)
   6: (CCL::PROCESS-FFI-TYPEDEF '(:TYPE ("/System/Library/Frameworks/ 
AddressBook.framework/Headers/ABTypedefs.h" 34)  
"ABPropertyType" (:ENUM-REF "_ABPropertyType")))
   7: (CCL::PARSE-FFI #P"/usr/local/openmcl/ccl/darwin-headers/ 
addressbook/C/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Headers/ 
AddressBook.ffi")
   8: (CCL::PARSE-STANDARD-FFI-FILES ':ADDRESSBOOK)
   9: (CCL::CALL-CHECK-REGS 'CCL::PARSE-STANDARD-FFI-FILES)
--more--

After looking at parse-ffi.lisp I try

CCL> (describe '*ffi-typedefs*)
Symbol: *FFI-TYPEDEFS*
Special Variable
INTERNAL in package: #<Package "CCL">
Print name: "*FFI-TYPEDEFS*"
Value: #<Unbound>
Function: #<Unbound>
Plist: NIL
; No value


Any ideas?

Thanks

On Oct 23, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

> AddressBook is likely something like WebKit (a set of Cocoa classes
> that are large enough and domain-specific enough to be distributed as
> their own framework.)
>
> The good news is that there's a (very simple) example of using WebKit
> in the OpenMCL 1.0 distribution, and the steps involved in using  
> AddressBook shold be similar.  The bad news is that there's some
> one-time setup involved and a little bit of startup work to be
> done in any code that uses AddressBook (or WebKit, or ...) under
> the Cocoa Bridge.
>
> The one-time setup involves generating interfaces (.cdb files)
> describing the classes and methods in the AddressBook headers,
> so that it'd be possible to say something like:
>
....
>
> If this makes sense so far, great, and if you want to pursue this
> on your own please let the list know if you're successful or if
> you encounter further problems.
>
>