change is that it is now also allowed to specify an external name for
formal external class definitions, but if they are later mixed with
regular class definitions the external names have to match.
o because the "external" status of methods is now set while parsing the
class rather than afterwards, some procdir compatibility checks had to
be inlined because they only have to be performed for
* also adapted the syntax for external cppclasses in the same way
* fixed return type of NSObject.retainCount and NSObject.hash
(NSUInteger instead of cint)
* moved "patches" directory from cocoaint/src to cocoaint/utils/cocoa-skel
so they are used by the conversion script when re-parsing the headers
* updated Objective-C header parser script to
o use the new external class syntax
o not write inheritance information for root classes (NSObject, NSProxy)
o use internal translation tables for some conflicting method names that
are named specially in objcbase.pp
and updated parsed headers
* fixed rtl/inc/objcbase.pp and tests to conform to the new external class
syntax
git-svn-id: trunk@16684 -
+ several missing categories and protocols (NSCodingProtocol,
NSCopyingProtocol, NSCoderMethods, ...)
* renamed classDescription method to _classDescription because there
is a method in another class in the Cocoa frameworks that also called
"classDescription"
+ added overloaded versions of all base methods without the trailing
underscore, since that seems what everyone has settled to using for
the rest of the Cocoa translations
git-svn-id: trunk@16518 -
starting with a previous 2.3.1 or compiler built from the objc branch
+ added basic objcprotocol support (only for external protocols
currently)
o use in type declaration: "type xp = objcprotocol ... end;"
o when defining a root class that implements it:
"type yc = objcclass(xp) ... end" (note: no support yet
for something like "objcclass(id,xp)" or so)
o when defining a non-root class that implements a protocol:
"type zc = objcclass(nsobject,xp) ... end"
o includes support for "required" and "optional" sections
o no support yet for the objcprotocol(<protocol>) expression
that enables getting a class instance representing the
protocol (e.g., for use with "conformsToProtocol:")
o message names have to specified in protocol declarations,
but if an objcclass implements a protocol, the message names do
not have to be repeated (but if they are, they have to match;
the same goes when overriding inherited methods)
+ allow specifying the external name of Objective-C classes and
protocols, since classes and protocols can have the same name
(and you cannot use the same Pascal identifier in such caseq)
+ added NSObject protocol, and make the NSObject class use it
+ added missing NSObject class methods that have the same name
as instance methods (added "class" name prefix to avoid clashes)
* fixed several cases where the compiler did not treat Objective-C
classes/protocols the same as Object Pascal classes/interfaces
(a.o., forward declarations, alignment, regvars, several type
conversions, ...)
* allow "override" directive in objcclass declarations, and print
a hint if it's forgotten in an external declaration (because it
doesn't really matter there, and may make automated header
conversion harder than necessary) and an error if will be used in
a non-external declaration (because it is not possible to start
a new vmt entry-tree in Objective-C, you can only override parent
methods)
* reject objcclasses/protocols as parameters to typeof()
* don't try to test VMT validity of objcclasses/protocols
git-svn-id: branches/objc@13375 -
o support for declaring external Objective-C classes (see
rtl/inc/objcbase.pas), including derived classes
o support for converting methods of objcclasses into selectors
(see tests/test/tobjc1.pp)
o support for loading from/storing to fields of objcclasses
o support for calling Objective-C methods using regular
Object Pascal syntax (see tests/test/tobjc1.pp)
o some things that are known to be not yet working:
o automatic conversion from ID to objcclasses and back
o declaring and implementing new objcclasses/methods in Pascal code
o debug information (objcclasses are currently plain pointers
as far as the debugger knows)
git-svn-id: branches/objc@13162 -
