Hi Davide,

If you want to try the Objective C Bridge, take a look at this thread:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2005-May/ 
091490.html
It worked nice last time I tried.

Let me know if it work for you.

Alain


On 10 janv. 06, at 16:35, Davide Varvello wrote:

> Hi Torsen,
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Carbon is a C API whereas Cocoa is Objective C.
>
> Right
>
>> The Squeak VM is a C
>> program so its natural to use Carbon.
>
> Ok, but there are many posts on using squeak with cocoa (see http:// 
> thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general/34633)  
> and I think if I can use cocoa libraries, probably the development  
> of my little project will be easier.
> By the way I've many problems to install the ObjectiveC-avi.70.mcz,  
> it seems the ObjectiveCPlugin is missing. I'll investigate and post  
> more info.
> Thanks
>  Davide
>
>> Torsten
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Davide Varvello wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Bert,
>>>  I'll keep an eye on the BlueS' high level API, but, please,   
>>> tell me more, what are the issues you see in using Cocoa instead  
>>> of Carbon?
>>> More opinions from other squeakers are welcome, of course.
>>> TIA
>>>  Davide
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org on behalf of  
>>> Bert Freudenberg
>>> Sent: Mon 1/9/2006 10:29 AM
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>> Subject: Re: Squeak and bluetooth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure. AFAIK the BlueZ lib, which is the base for the Linux BlueS
>>> implementation, is Linux-only, so you couldn't use it anyway.
>>>
>>> But the BlueS project consists of two parts. First, the high-level
>>> BlueS API which should be very much platform-independent:
>>>
>>>         http://lisa.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~eldeh/squeak/blues/doc/
>>> kernel_sample_session.txt
>>>
>>> and secondly, the low-level Linux implementation, wrapping the Linux
>>> library:
>>>
>>>         http://lisa.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~eldeh/squeak/blues/doc/
>>> linux_wrapper_sample_session.txt
>>>
>>> It would be very nice if your implementation would also conform to
>>> the high-level interface, so we would have the two major platforms
>>> covered ;-)
>>>
>>> As for your questions, yes, FFI is just fine for this. And I'd
>>> recommend Carbon.
>>>
>>> For a bit of working recent Carbon FFI code have a look at
>>>
>>>         http://source.impara.de/Sophie.html
>>>
>>> The "Files-Locations" package uses FFI calls to locate system  
>>> folders.
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>> Am 08.01.2006 um 22:21 schrieb Davide Varvello:
>>>
>>>> Hi Bert,
>>>>  Yes I read about BlueS, but I'd prefer to have a libraty ready to
>>>> use and not to have to compile it. Therefore I'd like to use the
>>>> IOBluetoothUI.framework as this example in ruby: http:// 
>>>> tinyurl.com/
>>>> 7ltl5
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>  Davide
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org on behalf of
>>>> Bert Freudenberg
>>>> Sent: Sun 1/8/2006 9:30 PM
>>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>>> Subject: Re: Squeak and bluetooth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 08.01.2006 um 21:02 schrieb Davide Varvello:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>  I'd like to interface Squeak, running on my mac, with a bluetooth
>>>>> device, but I'm a bit confused on what kind of approach to choose.
>>>>> First: FFI or plugins? I read FFI is quite slow compared to
>>>>> plugins, but if I have to call an os library and the rate of calls
>>>>> are not very frequent, probably FFI is a better choice (correct me
>>>>> if I'm wrong)
>>>>> Second: Carbon or Cocoa? As I read from the list and the swiki,
>>>>> there is a bridge, from Avi, to connect to Cocoa, but I didn't
>>>>> understand if I can use it from FFI.
>>>>> Finally: I tried the examples of FFI in a 3.8 image for MacOSX  
>>>>> (ex.
>>>>> MacPixPatPtr, MacRect, ...), but the code use an obsolete module,
>>>>> InterfaceLib, instead of Carbon.framework (see http://
>>>>> minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5585), I changed the first with the
>>>>> second and I had no errors, but nothing displayed.
>>>>>  Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Are you aware of BlueS?
>>>>
>>>>         http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3321
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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