Hello,

I am writing a Cocoa application for accessing a serial device. (IOKit) In
order to do this, you need to translate between CF and NS data types. (I
believe)

For instance:
        CFMutableArrayRef devicePaths = CFArrayCreateMutable(NULL, 0, NULL);

        GetSerialPortPaths(serialServices, devicePaths);  // Fills in
CFMutableArray
        serialPorts = (NSMutableArray *) devicePaths;
        //CFRelease(devicePaths);
        printf("Found %d serial ports\n", [serialPorts count]);

The problem:  I found that if you release the CFMutableArray, you also loose
the NSMutableArray

Question:
1. Where can I get a better understanding of the data conversion between
these different frameworks?
2. Ultimately the device path names will appear in a ComboBox. Was it
necessary to convert the CFMutableArray to a NSMutableArray for the
datasource function?

TIA

Allen
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