Re: [DotGNU]Cocoa#

[Gopal V]

Hi Rhys & Oscar,

> A simple "IntPtr" would 
> be used to represent the actual Objective-C object.
> 
> Constructors would call "objc_lookUpClass" and then
> "class_createInstance".  
> Methods would call "class_getInstanceMethod"
> followed by "obj_msgSendv".  Or 
> something like that.  It may be possible to do all
> of this in Portable.NET 
> now, using the current PInvoke facilities.

Are we implementing a C# based reflection API over 
the Objective-C system ?. (which seems a fair enough
first step ?). And writing the generator in C# itself
?.




> Eventually, we could move the "objc-api" stuff
> directly into the runtime 
> engine so that it happens automatically when an
> appropriately-marked C# class 
> is loaded.  The CVM coder would be able to cache
> class pointers and method 
> selectors, making the binding more efficient.  But
> that will have to wait 
> until after I rearrange PInvoke following DotGNU
> 0.1.

Hmmm... rearrange PInvoke ... good .. :)

Gopal

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