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Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X

by: Cheeseman, Bill

Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X

by: Cheeseman, Bill

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9780201878011
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Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Peachpit Pr
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Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X takes a practical, no-nonsense, hands-on, step-by-step approach, walking you through the details of building a Cocoa application from start to finish. It explains in detail what the code is doing and why it works, Cocoa Recipes places a decided emphasis on getting an application to work correctly as quickly as possible. This collection of, do-it-yourself recipes guides you through the process of creating classes and subclasses, objects, outlets, and actions. Cocoa is one of the main object-oriented software development environments for Mac OS X. Previously announced in 4/2002 catalog.

Introduction	p. xxvii
About Vermont Recipes	p. xxvii
Why Cocoa?	p. xxx
Why Objective-C?	p. xxxii
Naming Conventions	p. xxxiii
Interface Builder and Project Builder	p. xxxiv
The Vermont Recipes Application Specification	p. xxxvi
Installing the Downloadable Project Files	p. xxxvii
About the Author	p. xxxviii
Building an Application	p. 1
A Multidocument, Multiwindow Application	p. 3
Create the Project Using Project Builder	p. 7
Design and Build the GUI Using Interface Builder	p. 12
Set Up the Project Source Files Using Project Builder	p. 51
Provide for Data Storage and Retrieval in Property List Format	p. 89
Provide a Better Way to Save Data, in XML Format	p. 101
Implement Undo and Redo	p. 109
Tinker with Revert	p. 126
Add Application and Document Icons	p. 133
Revise the Menu Bar	p. 135
Debug the Application and Build It for Deployment	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 151
User Controls	p. 153
Buttons	p. 155
Prepare the Project for Recipe 2	p. 156
Create Checkboxes (Switch Buttons) in a Borderless Group Box	p. 163
Create Checkboxes (Switch Buttons) in a Bordered Group Box	p. 192
Create a Radio Button Cluster	p. 211
Create a Pop-Up Menu Button	p. 223
Create a Command Pop-Down Menu Button	p. 232
Create Bevel Buttons to Navigate a Tab View	p. 236
Conclusion	p. 244
Sliders	p. 245
Create a Simple Slider	p. 246
Create a Continuous Slider with an Interactive Text Field	p. 260
Create a Continuous Slider with Push-buttons and a Static Text Field	p. 273
Conclusion	p. 282
Text Fields	p. 283
Set Up Standard Text Fields	p. 284
Set Up the Key View Loop	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 317
Text Field Extras: Alert Sheets	p. 319
Create a Complex, Interactive Document-Modal Alert Sheet to Deal with an Invalid Text Field Entry	p. 319
Set Up a Generic Document-Modal Sheet to Require an Entry in a Text Field	p. 338
Prevent Tab View Navigation While an Invalid Text Entry and Sheet Are Pending	p. 344
Conclusion	p. 348
Text Field Extras: Formatters	p. 349
Set Up On-the-Fly Input Filtering for Integers	p. 350
Set Up On-the-Fly Input Filtering and Formatting for Decimal Values	p. 364
Create a Complete Custom Formatter for Conventional North American Telephone Numbers	p. 389
Conclusion	p. 406
Text Field Extras: Undo and Redo	p. 407
Subclass NSTextField	p. 410
Allocate and Initialize a Separate Field Editor	p. 411
Clear the Undo and Redo Stacks	p. 414
Suppress Changes to the Document's Change Counter	p. 419
Enable Undo Registration for Unchanged Fields	p. 421
Make the Integer Text Field Undoable	p. 423
Read the Source Files into the Nib File and Connect Outlets and Actions	p. 423
Build and Run the Application	p. 424
Conclusion	p. 424
Text Field Extras: Drag and Drop	p. 425
Conclusion	p. 435
Forms	p. 437
Create a Form in Interface Builder	p. 438
Write the Code for the Form in Project Builder	p. 440
Read the Source Files into the Nib File and Connect Outlets and Actions	p. 454
Add a Custom Formatter to the Fax Form Field, with Alert Sheets	p. 455
Add Live Undo and Redo Support to the Form	p. 458
Add Full Drag-and-Drop Support to the Form	p. 466
Build and Run the Application	p. 470
Conclusion	p. 470
Combo Boxes	p. 471
Create a Combo Box in Interface Builder	p. 473
Write the Code for the Combo Box in Project Builder	p. 474
Create a Data Source for the Combo Box	p. 475
Add Full Drag-and-Drop Support to the Combo Box	p. 480
Read the Source Files into the Nib File and Connect the Actions	p. 482
Build and Run the Application	p. 482
Conclusion	p. 483
Table Views	p. 485
Create a Table View and Three Push-buttons in Interface Builder	p. 487
Write the Basic Code for the Table and Buttons in Project Builder	p. 490
Create a New Model Class for Records	p. 496
Add and Remove Records in the Model Object	p. 503
Assign a Unique ID to Each New Record	p. 506
Write Action Methods and Supporting Code to Add and Delete Records in the Table	p. 509
Filter the Array for Display in the Table	p. 516
Write the Table's Data Source Protocol Methods	p. 520
Implement a Customizable Combo Box Menu	p. 526
Apply Data Entry Filtering and Formatting in Table Cells	p. 535
Implement Drag and Drop for Table Cells	p. 538
Implement Live Undo and Redo in Table Cells	p. 540
Add a Keyboard Shortcut for Deleting a Record	p. 545
Prepare the Table View for the Key View Loop	p. 549
Read the Source Files into the Nib File and Connect the Actions	p. 550
Build and Run the Application	p. 551
Conclusion	p. 552
Data Storage	p. 553
Keyed Archiving	p. 555
Encode and Decode the Antiques Inventory	p. 557
Archive and Unarchive the Antiques Inventory	p. 565
Apply Archiving and Unarchiving to the Rest of the Text Field Model	p. 573
Apply Archiving and Unarchiving to the Remaining Model Objects	p. 575
Add Support for Revert, and Undo and Redo	p. 578
Build and Run the Application	p. 585
Conclusion	p. 586
Menus	p. 587
Application Menus	p. 589
Add an Application Menu and Menu Items Using Interface Builder	p. 589
Enable and Disable the New Menu Items	p. 592
Build and Run the Application	p. 595
Contextual Menus	p. 597
Add a Contextual Menu and Menu Items Using Interface Builder	p. 597
Enable and Disable the New Contextual Menu Items	p. 600
Add a Menu Item to the Antiques Menu in the Menu Bar	p. 601
Build and Run the Application	p. 602
The Dock Menu	p. 603
Add Static Menu Items to the Dock Menu Using Interface Builder	p. 604
Add Dynamic Menu Items to the Dock Menu Using Project Builder	p. 606
Build and Run the Application	p. 612
Conclusion	p. 613
Windows	p. 615
Drawers	p. 617
Add a Button to the Main Document Window to Toggle the Drawer Open and Closed	p. 618
Add Static Text, a Text View, and a Button to the Drawer	p. 619
Add a Text-Formatting Menu to the Menu Bar	p. 622
Remove the Find Menu from the Menu Bar	p. 623
Set Up a Window Controller Category for the Drawer and Its Text View	p. 624
Set Up a Model Object for the Text Data Represented by the Drawer	p. 631
Archive and Unarchive the Drawer's Text Data	p. 635
Read the Source Files into the Nib File and Connect Outlets	p. 637
Build and Run the Application	p. 637
Multiple Windows	p. 639
Redesign the Text-Handling Code for the Drawer's Text View	p. 641
Create a Split-View Window in a Separate Nib File in Interface Builder	p. 652
Create a Separate Window Controller for the Split-View Window in Project Builder	p. 654
Code and Connect the Open in Window Button	p. 657
Coordinate the Three Text Views	p. 661
Build and Run the Application	p. 665
Alert and Dialog Panels	p. 667
Create a Freestanding Modal Alert Panel That Doesn't Block Application Processing	p. 670
Create a Freestanding Dialog Panel for Entry of User Preference Settings	p. 678
Conclusion	p. 684
Additional Application Features	p. 685
User Preferences	p. 687
Online Help	p. 695
Create a Help tag Reflecting a View's Current State	p. 698
Create Context Help for a View	p. 699
Add Menu Items to the Help Menu to Present a Read-Me Document and Turn On Context Help	p. 705
Implement HTML-Based Comprehensive Apple Help	p. 709
Working with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)	p. 717
Ensuring Backward Compatibility for Jaguar Applications	p. 719
Bypass New Jaguar Methods and Functions by Testing the Operating System Version	p. 721
Bypass New Jaguar Methods by Testing Their Availability	p. 731
Bypass New Jaguar Classes by Testing Their Availability	p. 732
Deal with New Jaguar External Variables	p. 733
Build the Application for Deployment	p. 735
Conclusion	p. 737
Index	p. 739
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