[Mono-osx] Help marshaling NSFormatter method

Mattiello Joseph mail at joemattiello.com
Fri Aug 26 21:06:37 EDT 2011


NSFormatter uses a lot of output parameters of types like NSString **. I've found that when NSError** 's are used mono uses "out NSError". I've tried doing the same with both "out string" and "out NSString" but I continue to get bus errors with the following.

        [Export ("isPartialStringValid:newEditingString:errorDescription:")]
        public bool IsPartialStringValid(string partialString, out string newString, out string error){
            error = "";
            newString = "";

            if(partialString.Length <= this.length)
                return true;

            newString = partialString.Substring(0, this.length);

            return false;
        }


I've also tried with out NSString newString where newString = new NSString("foo");
I only get a bus error when encountering the false case immediately after return. I'm assuming that Cocoa isn't able to understand the memory passed to it. I haven't been able to backtrack in gdb, maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me nuts. And the NSFormatter class is actually incomplete on a method that also uses NSString** so I'll pass any input forward to fix that.

Many thanks,
- Joe


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