For anyone interested, this is an Objective-C code snippet (Mac OS X)
to populate a drop down with a list of modules installed. It's really
not that complicated - square brackets are for method calls, @
symbols indicate NSString's (vs. normal C strings).
Because Cocoa uses a bunch of its own data types (NSString is a
Unicode string object used throughout the API), it seems I will be
writing several wrappers for the Sword API. The swordModulesForType
function below would be some of that wrapper code, using a mix of
Objective-C and C++. The code in my AppController could then be pure
Objective-C.
- n8
/* Startup code
*/
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
[modulePopUp removeAllItems];
[modulePopUp addItemsWithTitles: [self swordModulesForType:
@"biblical texts"]];
}
/* swordModulesForType:
Retrieve list of installed modules as an array, where type is:
@"Biblical Texts"
@"Commentaries"
...
@"ALL"
*/
- (NSMutableArray *)swordModulesForType:(NSString *)type
{
SWMgr manager;
SWModule *module;
ModMap::iterator it;
NSMutableArray *moduleList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (it = manager.Modules.begin(); it != manager.Modules.end(); it++)
{
module = it->second;
if( [type caseInsensitiveCompare: @"ALL"] ||[type
caseInsensitiveCompare:
[NSString stringWithCString:module->Type()]] )
{
[moduleList addObject: [NSString
stringWithCString:module->Name()]];
}
}
[moduleList autorelease]; // release memory later
return moduleList;
}
--
Nathan Youngman
E-mail: sword at nathany.com
Web: http://nathany.com
