[Pythonmac-SIG] More on init

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 6:04 AM, Aldo Bergamini wrote:

> An update on my fiddling:
>
>
> <snippet>
>
> from Foundation import *
> from AppKit import *
>
>
> from PyObjCTools import NibClassBuilder
>
> class PySayTextAppDelegate(NibClassBuilder.AutoBaseClass):
>     #    IB defined outlets
>     #    textField
>     #    speechSynthetizer
>     #
>     #    IB defined actions
>     #    sayIt_
>     #    stopIt_
>
>     def init(self):
>
>         NSLog("init")
>
>         self.speechSynth = NSSpeechSynthetizer.alloc()
>         self.speechSynth.initWithVoice_(None)
>
>         return self
>
> </snippet>
>
>
> In this version the init method gets called. I did remove the  
> attempt to
> call the super class' init method.

NEVER remove the attempt to call the super's init method.  ALWAYS  
call the designated initializer.

> I know that the method IS called as I get an exception on
> NSSpeechSynthetizer.alloc() (hooray... ;-) : NSSpeechSynthetizer is  
> not
> defined, apparently.

It's not defined because you didn't spell the class correctly.

> An attempt to import <Cococa> failed miserably...

Cocoa imports Foundation, AppKit and potentially CoreData.  You need  
to import those separately from PyObjC.

-bob