Re: dia2code objc

[Helge Hess]

Björn Gohla wrote:
> i am working on a dia2code plugin for objective-c. i have some issues with 
> class member visibility. public attributes are represented in objc via a 
> set/get pair, and private ones by the absence of it. but is there any useful 
> interpretation of protected attributes, if so how?

Actually private/protected/public attributes should probably be mapped 
to instance variables ? ivars do support those flags:

@interface MyClass
{
@private
  id myPrivate;
@protected
  id myProtected;
@public
  id myPublic;
}
@end

> how can private and
> protected methods be represented in objc? 

There is no protection for methods in ObjC. Common convention is, that 
private and protected methods have an "_" underscore prefix. "Protected" 
might be mapped to a "MyClass+Protected.h" headerfile which contains an 
informal protocol for the protected _ methods.

Greetings
  Helge
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