I'm trying to add a delegate to a NSView object in Cocoa. I quite a bit of code from glutin by @tomaka (thanks, you will get a proper credits in the doc once done)
The problem is that I can't get setDelegate to work correctly on an NSView (I need the drawRect callback in order to do custom rendering on the View)
impl ViewDelegate {
fn class() -> *const Class {
use std::sync::{Once, ONCE_INIT};
extern fn draw_rect(this: &Object, _: Sel, _: id) {
println!("draw_rect");
}
static mut delegate_class: *const Class = 0 as *const Class;
static INIT: Once = ONCE_INIT;
INIT.call_once(|| unsafe {
println!("Create new ViewDelegate");
let superclass = Class::get("NSObject").unwrap();
let mut decl = ClassDecl::new(superclass, "minifb_view_delegate").unwrap();
// Add callback methods
decl.add_method(sel!(drawRect:),
draw_rect as extern fn(&Object, Sel, id));
// Store internal state as user data
decl.add_ivar::<*mut libc::c_void>("minifb_view_state");
delegate_class = decl.register();
});
unsafe {
delegate_class
}
}
fn new(state: ViewDelegateState) -> ViewDelegate {
let mut state = Box::new(state);
let state_ptr: *mut ViewDelegateState = &mut *state;
unsafe {
let delegate = IdRef::new(msg_send![ViewDelegate::class(), new]);
(&mut **delegate).set_ivar("minifb_view_state", state_ptr as *mut libc::c_void);
// BOOM!
let _: () = msg_send![*state.view, setDelegate:*delegate];
ViewDelegate { state: state, _this: delegate }
}
}
}
When doing the msg_send!(...) here I get
[NSView setDelegate:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fe90d132510
I'm no expert on either objc or the Rust binding to it, but is there a reason why you use msg_send! instead setDelegate_ here? You could use the non_nil().map() helper that you use elsewhere. Based on my reading of your code and the macro definition, that should be identical to what you are doing, but perhaps it would help show the problem.
You could also try setting a delegate right after you create the window/view, just for test, to see if it responds to the message.
Ah, I missed the fact that you were using setDelegate on both the window and the view.
I think one problem here is that NSView objects do not "naturally" support delegates, which is why you are getting the unrecognized selector message. The Rust "NSView" wrapper does not not define setDelegate
( cocoa-rs/appkit.rs at master · servo/cocoa-rs · GitHub ) . That isn't definitive, because maybe its just missing, but the objective c docs also don't mention it as a property ( Apple Developer Documentation ). Also, after googling around a bit, I see people that are manually adding a delegate field to their custom views, as seen in this SO answer: ( cocoa - How does an NSView subclass communicate with the controller? - Stack Overflow ) So bottom in that I think the issue is with your view implementation and not something specific to Rust, but since I am a total AppKit ignoramus I can't tell you how to fix it.
Absent other solutions, one approach would be to try getting it to work in objective C then convert that working solution back to Rust.
I assumed that NSView would work similar to NSWindow in regards to delegates (bad move on my part)
I will investigate this a bit more and I think your suggestion of trying to get it to work in Objective C first might be a good idea. Also it would be possible to just let this code be in Objective C but it would be nice to have the lib fully written in Rust.
