[Mono-osx] external reference to a class

[Duane Wandless]

That is much better... thank you for suggesting this.
Duane

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Laurent Etiemble <laurent.etiemble at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Why don't you use the "NSClassFromString" function
> (
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Functions/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/NSClassFromString
> )
> ? The return type is a Class instance, and is not as low-level as a
> call to objc_getClass().
>
> [NSClassFromString(@"MyMonoClass") testTouch];
>
> Note 1: See http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSClassFromString for more
> comments
> Note 2: you can even define a macro to avoid the cluttering of your code.
>
> Regards, Laurent Etiemble.
>
> 2009/10/22 Duane Wandless <duane at wandless.net>:
> > Hopefully someone can help with this.
> >
> > I am currently doing this.
> >
> >     id myobj = objc_getClass("MyMonoClass");
> >     [myobj testTouch];
> >
> > which works.  MyMonoClass is not defined so I cannot do this:
> > [MyMonoClass testTouch];
> >
> > Because the compiler tries to resolve the class reference, of course.
> >
> > Is there a better way to do this than what I have?  Which I got the idea
> of
> > how to do this from Monobjc!
> >
> > The context is that I have a Cocoa application that loads the mono
> runtime
> > which loads my Monobjc enabled library.  Which that is where MyMonoClass
> is
> > defined.  Then I need to invoke a method on the mono class from Cocoa.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Duane
> >
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