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25 Sep 04 |
(Source: Avi Bryant, squeak-ML) A while ago, Alain Fischer announced his
new ObjectiveC plugin, allowing Squeak to use Apple’s Cocoa and other
ObjectiveC libraries. Todd Blanchard and I have since done some further
work on it, and it’s at the point now where it can begin be used to
build Cocoa UIs from within Squeak. As a quick test, I built a native OS X
UI for the system browser, which you can see in this screenshot: img
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The code is on SqueakSource: kilana.unibe.ch:8888/ObjectiveCBridge/ObjectiveC-avi.70.mcz
You can get a prebuilt plugin (for use with Ian’s 3.7 VM) here: beta4.com/~avi/ObjectiveCPlugin
The browser demo can be run with "CCBrowser test". It requires
this nib file: beta4.com/~avi/CCBrowser.tgz
You need to untar that and place it inside Contents/Resources/English.lproj
of your VM application bundle. I’m announcing this partly because
I’ve run out of steam on it for now, and am hoping someone else will
take it the next step of building UIs for the various Squeak tools
(browsers, debuggers, workspaces, inspectors, etc) in Cocoa. A custom
NSMorphicView would also be cool, although might be pretty tricky. Anyway,
if someone does try to take this on, I’ll be more than happy to
answer any questions they have about the underlying bridge code.
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