Hi, I'm hoping that some Mac guru can help out.

I'd like to wrap some Cocoa on the Mac. In order to do this I need to create NSString objects, passing them as id (int or long I guess) through JNA.

The function to create an NSString from a C string is NSString::stringWithUTF8String:(const char *). This is a static method on NSString, defined in NSString.h and hence linked from Foundation.Framework

I'd like to persuade the following to work

public interface Foundation extends Library { Foundation instance = (Foundation) Native.loadLibrary ("Foundation", Foundation.class);

int stringWithUTF8String(String string); }

While I can call plain C functions in Foundation, attempting to call stringWithUTF8String gives java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot locate function 'stringWithUTF8String' at com.sun.jna.NativeLibrary.getFunctionAddress(NativeLibrary.java:228)

Am I being optimistic in hoping that, as stringWithUTF8String is static in NSString, that some naming convention will allow me to access it without dropping down into the JNI code that we're all here to avoid?

Thanks in anticipation