[ADK-V4CC 0004885]: VField value returns not an object when the field is boolean

[Ernesto Giannotta]

Great! :-)

On Apr 28, 2010, at 08:57, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 25/4/10 2:13 PM, "Erne" <ernestogiannotta at tiscalinet.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Erne,
> 
> :-)  Thorsten have point the same in chat.
> 
> I have redesign this names 2 days ago.
> Committed to SVN already.
> 
> Only I have choose more short names, exactly like class name
> 
>    mediumValue
>    setMediumValue
> 
>    umediumValue
>    setUMediumValue
> 
> ...
> 
> 
>> thanks always for your kind attention.
>> 
>>> !!! VField.value renamed to  VField.valueAsObject  !!!
>> 
>> Let me just make some observations about namings in V4CC
>> 
>> We have in the VString header:
>> 
>> -(NSString*)stringValue;
>> -(void)setStringValue:(NSString*)inNewValue;
>> 
>> and in the VLong header:
>> 
>> -(int) value;
>> -(void) setValue:(int) inNewValue;
>> 
>> What about having subclasses return always appropriately named values VString
>> style, i.e.
>> 
>> -(BOOL)booleanValue for VBoolean
>> -(NSInteger)integerValue for VLong and all signed numeric values
>> -(NSUInteger)unsignedIntegerValue for VUlong and all unsigned numeric values
>> (btw how can you currently fit an unsigned long into an int if it's too big?)
>> -(NSString *)stringValue for VString and all test fields
>> -(NSData *)dataValue for VBlob
>> 
>> etc... and just leave value to super VField class like this
>> 
>> -(id)value  returning always an object representation of the field's contents
>> 
>> 
>> BTW
>> 
>> mmm... I really don't understand how picts are handled here :-(
>> why can't we have some
>> 
>> -(NSImage)imageValue for VPicture?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Well, I talked too much as usual... :-)
>> thank you all for your patience.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ruslan Zasukhin
> VP Engineering and New Technology
> Paradigma Software, Inc
> 
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