API Notes: AppKit framework
The full API is described in Apple’s documentation, both the C and Objective-C APIs are available (but see the API Notes below).
These bindings are accessed through the AppKit
package (that is, import AppKit
).
API Notes
API Extensions
See API Description for PyObjCTools.AppCategories for same extensions for the APIs from the AppKit framework.
NSBezierPath
-drawPackedGlyphs:atPoint:
and-appendBezierPathWithPackedGlyphs:
These methods are barely supported…
NSColorSpace
-initWithColorSyncProfile:
andcolorSyncProfile
These methods are not supported.
NSEvent
-initWithEventRef:
and-eventRef
These methods are not supported
NSGradient
-initWithColorsAndLocations:
This method is not supported, use
-initWithColors:atLocations:colorSpace:
instead.
NSDrawBitmap
This function is deprecated and is not supported by PyObjC. Use an NSBitmapImageRep
instead.
NSImage
initWithIconRef:
This method is not yet supported.
NSMovie
NOTE: This class is deprecated by Apple, use QTMovie
instead.
-QTMovie
,-initWithMovie:
These methods are not supported.
NSMovieView
-movieController
This method is not supported.
NSPrintInfo
-PMPrintSession
,-PMPageFormat
,-PMPrintSettings
These methods are not supported.
NSQuickDrawView
-qdPort
This method is not supported.
NSGlyphInfoAtIndex
This function is not supported.
NSTypesetterGlyphInfo
This structure is not supported, and therefore the method -baseOfTypesetterGlyphInfo
and
-typesetterLaidOneGlyph
of NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter
are not supported as well.
NSWindow
Methods -initWithWindowRef:
and -windowRef
are not supported.
NSInputStream
getBuffer:length:
This method is not supported
NSBitmapImageRep
-initWithBitmapDataPlanes:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:bitsPerSample:samplesPerPixel:hasAlpha:isPlanar:colorSpaceName:bitmapFormat:bytesPerRow:bitsPerPixel:
This method is not yet supported. Support for this method requires a manual wrapper, which has not been written yet.
NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings
This is a helper macro that cannot be implemented with the same interface in Python.
Instead of:
NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(button1, button2, nil)
use:
{ "button1": button1, "button2": button2 }
or:
AppKit.NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings("button1", "button2")
The first alternative is preferable because it is cleaner Python code, and
the implementation of NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings
has to use an
unstable API of CPython.
IBInspectable
and IB_DESIGNABLE
These definitions are not supported.