[Biococoa-dev] Design question

[Alexander Griekspoor]

You're right Jim,

You indeed need  [NSValue valueWithPoint:aRange] to do this. I must  
have been mistaken, but I'm absolutely sure that not to long ago I had  
an incidence where I thought "hey, can you do this directly?!", clearly  
that must have been something else then...
Alex

Op 6-aug-04 om 5:42 heeft Jim Balhoff het volgende geschreven:

> Hey Alex,
>
> On Aug 5, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Alexander Griekspoor wrote:
>
>> Indeed John,
>> Those methods should do perfect in that way, savability should be a  
>> later concern as we further setup the foundation, we can always make  
>> it work with those objects by then...
>> Alex
>>
>> By the way, I'm pretty sure that you can put NSRanges in arrays and  
>> dictionaries natively already (without converting them to  
>> NSNumbers/Values first), at least I believe I've done that in  
>> EnzymeX....
>>
>
> Unfortunately, NSRange is a C struct and not an Objective-C object, so  
> it can't go into collections on its own.  I find it kind of confusing,  
> but I guess it improves performance.
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ 
> ObjC_classic/TypesAndConstants/FoundationTypes.html#//apple_ref/c/ 
> tdef/NSRange>
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ 
> ObjC_classic/Classes/NSValue.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/NSValue>
>
> - Jim
> ____________________________________________
> James P. Balhoff
> Dept. of Biology
> Duke University
> Durham, NC 27708-0338
> USA
>
>
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