Re: C/Obj-C API Confusion
Re: C/Obj-C API Confusion
- Subject: Re: C/Obj-C API Confusion
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:50:12 -0400
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:44 PM, J. Todd Slack
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I had a conversation with an Apple Engineer a few days ago and he
> recommended that I switch to the Quicktime C API rather than the Objective-C
> api for what I needed to do.
Okay, there's probably no "Cocoa way" to do what you want to do.
> 1. Currently I have a .m and I use NSTask, NSString, etc. I would need to
> change these for C, correct? What is NSTask in the C API?
>
> 2. Am I confused?
Yes. NSTask and NSString are part of the Cocoa frameworks (the API).
Cocoa is written in Objective-C (the language). A straight C string
and fork() are your friends.
> 3. Can one mix C and Objective-C in the same file? Maybe I can keep the
> Objective-C stuff I already have done and just write the c code for QT
> integration that I need?
It's impossible to say because you haven't given any real details
about a) what you're trying to accomplish with your app using
QuickTime, b) what parts of QuickTime you need to use, and c) example
code of your current approach.
--
I.S.
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