Re: [ANN] ANSystemSoundWrapper - Cocoa wrapper for changing system volume

FROM : Antonio Nunes
DATE : Wed Apr 16 18:06:13 2008

On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Mike Abdullah wrote:

> Also, another alternative is to follow a singleton pattern like 
> NSFileManager et. al and implement these as instance methods. If you 
> do persist with either of the ObjC-based approaches, I would also 
> suggest changing your first method to:
>
> + (float)systemVolume;
>
> as this is more common Cocoa practice. The "get" prefix is generally 
> reserved for methods that return something by reference.


Very true, I overlooked that when I adapted the original code samples. 
I've updated the downloadable file to reflect the change.

> Actually, I have a further alternative that I've just thought of. 
> Rather than declaring your own class for these methods, you could 
> keep them as class methods, but turn it into a category on NSSound.


Cool. Now why didn't I think of that? I like this much better. So I've 
created an alternative implementation as a category on NSSound. It's 
available here:
http://sintraworks.com/media/code/ANNSSoundSystemVolumeAdditions.zip

António

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