Re: objective-c question: get selector by ascii name

[Ken Cline]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ginger Booth wrote:

> Rick,
> 
> > ps Just for my edification: how did you find that?
> 
>     /usr/local/include/gcc/objc/objc-api.h
>     
> Terse, even downright unintelligible.  But there.
>    
> Ciao, 
>     Ginger
> 

I went thru the same thing: I started looking for
sel_getUid and couldn't find it. So then I took a wag that
is might be called sel_get_uid instead... (it wasn't my
first guess, though)


In fact, I've had an email hanging around in my postpone
list for quite a while which contained a suggestion for
adding a wrapper around the sel_get_uid method.

I thought it might useful to put following in DefObject   
(or perhaps there's a more appropriate place for it):

-(BOOL) respondsToMethodNamed: (char *) name {
   return [ self respondsTo: sel_get_uid( name ) ];
}
 
-performMethodNamed: (char *) name with: (id) anObject1 {
   return [ self perform: sel_get_uid( name )
                    with: anObject1            ];
}
 
I only have a limited need for these and perhaps there are
simpler ways to do this.


Ken.
 

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