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Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 72
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Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 72


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 72
  • From: Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:15:36 -0400

Our C++ is cross-platform.  More importantly, we have a LOT of accounting
and business logic in C++.
To rewrite and test it would be 5 or 10 programmer-years.

We never found any way to have Obj-C members in C++ header files, except as
void *.
Also, no way to reference Obj-C headers from C++.  It's easy to go from
Cocoa to C++.
Going back needs a linker class, with a C++ header and Obj-C++ in the
source.
That wasn't too bad to set up.  More than half of the past 3 yrs has been
spent dealing with
NSTableView, NSTabView and NSOutlineView.

Casey McDermott
TurtleSoft.com

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:47 PM Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:

>
>
> On Aug 25, 2019, at 5:49 PM, Turtle Creek Software via Cocoa-dev <
> email@hidden> wrote:
>
> No use of NSBridgingRetain or Release at all.  Is that necessary under ARC?
>
>
> Those functions are only for casting CoreFoundation types to/from Obj-C.
>
> The void pointers are mostly to text fields and controls, plus the app
> delegate
> and one view.  None of those have had lifetime problems.  We mostly just
> access them and have them do one thing.
>
>
> Unless your C++ code is cross-platform, it's better to use Obj-C types in
> it instead of casting them to void*. (Change the source file suffix to
> ".mm" if you haven't already.) Then ARC will manage them properly.
>
> —Jens
>
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