Python API

Contents:

• objc – The PyObjC bridge
  • Introduction
    • Debugging
    • Tweaking behaviour
    • Utilities
    • Accessing classes and protocols
    • Dynamic modification of classes
    • Plugin bundles
    • Memory management
    • Test support
    • Framework wrappers
  • Types
  • Constants
  • Objective-C type strings
    • Basic types
    • Complex types
    • Additional annotations for method and function arguments
    • Special encoded types
  • Context pointers
  • Descriptors
  • Interacting with @synchronized blocks
  • Archiving Python and Objective-C objects
  • Properties
    • Introduction
    • Properties for structured types
• PyObjCTools – Utilities
  • PyObjCTools.KeyValueCoding – Key-Value Coding API
    • Accessor functions
    • Key-Value Coding wrapper
  • PyObjCTools.AppHelper – Work with AppKit
  • PyObjCTools.Conversion – Convert data structures
  • PyObjCTools.NibClassBuilder – Magic NIBs
    • Introduction
    • Extracting class definitions from nibs
    • Using the class definitions
    • The NibInfo class
    • The command line tool
  • PyObjCTools.Signals – Debug signal handling
  • PyObjCTools.TestSupport – Testing helpers