[Mono-osx] Conceptual Idea: (Semi)automatic generation of Cocoa# wrapper classes

[marc hoffman]

Hi,

this maybe (probably?) has come up before, but i couldn't find any 
reference to it, so here it goes:

As i've found out myself, recently, creating the wrapper classes needed 
to access the Cocoa objects from managed code is a very tedious and 
error prone process, which in tuen explains, of course, why such a small 
portion of Cocoa is actually exposed, so far. It's mind-numbing 
runt-work that no-one wants to do.

has anyone ever put any thought into creating a way to *automatically* 
or semi-automatically (ie with manual adjustments) generate these 
wrapper classes by, for example, parsing method headers from available 
.h files or the documentation?

if not, does anyone think this would be a good idea and would like to 
work with me on investigating this? (i'm very interested in this myself 
(else i wouldn't bring it up ;), but my spare time is severely limited 
these days, so i wouldn't want to take this up all by myself - but i'd 
certainly be happy to put effort and energy into this, if someone else 
will help out as well).


looking forward to your thoughts on this,

marc hoffman

RemOjects Software
The Infrastructure Company
http://www.rembjects.com