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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X

by: Hillegass, Aaron

Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X

by: Hillegass, Aaron

ISBN 13:
9780321213143
ISBN 10:
0321213149
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2004
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Summary

Harness the power of Cocoa's object-oriented software development environment with this book that is completely updated for Mac OS X 10.2. Cocoa has quickly gained recognition as the leading development framework for building OS X applications. Users will understand the common features found in Cocoa's tools: InterfaceBuilder, ProjectBuilder, the GCC compiler and the GDB debugger.

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

Chapter 1 Cocoa: What Is It?

(10)

A Little History

(3)

Tools

(1)

Language

(1)

Objects, Classes, Methods, and Messages

(1)

Frameworks

(1)

How to Read This Book

(1)

Typographical Conventions

(1)

Common Mistakes

(1)

How to Learn

(3)

Chapter 2 Let's Get Started

(26)

In Xcode

(5)

Create a New Project

(3)

The main Function

(1)

In Interface Builder

(10)

The Standard Palettes

(1)

The Blank Window

(1)

Lay Out the Interface

(2)

The Doc Window

(1)

Create a Class

(3)

Create an Instance

(1)

Make Connections

(2)

Back in Xcode

(6)

Types and Constants in Objective-C

(1)

Look at the I leader File

(1)

Edit the Implementation File

(1)

Build and Run

(1)

awakeFromNib

(1)

Documentation

(1)

What Have You Done?

(4)

Chapter 3 Objective-C

(44)

Creating and Using Instances

(2)

Using Existing Classes

(16)

Memory Management: Retain Count, Releasing, and Retaining

(2)

Sending Messages to nil

(1)

NSObject, NSArray, NSMutableArray, and NSString

(5)

"Inherits from" Versus "Uses" or "Knows About"

(1)

Creating Your Own Classes

(19)

Creating the LotteryEntry Class

(4)

Changing main.m

(2)

Implementing a description Method

(9)

Writing Initializers

(1)

Initializers with Arguments

(2)

The Debugger

(4)

What Have You Done?

(1)

For the More Curious: How Does Messaging Work?

(2)

Challenge

(1)

Chapter 4 Controls

(22)

Some Commonly Used Subclasses of NSControl

(4)

NSButton

(1)

NSSlider

(1)

NSTextField

(1)

Start the SpeakLine Example

(2)

Lay Out the Nib File

(5)

Making Connections in Interface Builder

(3)

Implementing the AppController Class

(5)

Extending an Existing User Interface

(3)

For the More Curious: Setting the Target Progranunatically

(1)

Challenge

100

(3)

Chapter 5 Helper Objects

103

(18)

Delegates

104

(4)

The NSTableView and Its dataSource

108

(2)

AppController Interface File

109

(1)

Lay Out the User Interface

110

(2)

Make Connections

112

(2)

Edit AppController.m

114

(3)

Common Errors in Implementing a Delegate

116

(1)

Many Objects Have Delegates

117

(1)

Retain Cycles

117

(1)

For the More Curious: How Delegates Work

117

(2)

Challenge

119

(2)

Chapter 6 Bindings and NSController

121

(18)

Starting the RaiseMan Application

122

(9)

Key-Value Coding

126

(1)

In Interface Builder

127

(4)

Key-Value Coding and nil

131

(1)

Add Sorting

132

(1)

For the More Curious: Sorting Without NSArrayController

133

(1)

For the More Curious: Key Paths

134

(1)

Challenge 1

135

(1)

Challenge 2

135

(4)

Chapter 7 NSUndoManager

139

(12)

NSlnvocation

139

(1)

How the NSUndoManager Works

140

(3)

Adding Undo to RaiseMan

143

(3)

Key-Value Observing

146

(1)

Undo for Edits

147

(2)

For the More Curious: Windows and the Undo Manager

149

(2)

Chapter 8 Archiving

151

(16)

NSCoder and NSCoding

152

(3)

Encoding

153

(1)

Decoding

154

(1)

The Document Architecture

155

(4)

Info.plist and NSDocumentController

156

(1)

NSDocument

156

(2)

NSWindowController

158

(1)

Saving and NSKeyedArchiver

159

(1)

Loading and NSKeyedUnarchiver

160

(1)

Setting the Extension and Icon for the File Type

161

(2)

For the More Curious: Preventing Infinite Loops

163

(1)

For the More Curious: Versioning

164

(2)

For the More Curious: Creating a Protocol

166

(1)

For the More Curious: Document-Based Applications Without Undo

166

(1)

Chapter 9 Nib Files and NSWindowController

167

(16)

NSPanel

167

(1)

Adding a Panel to the Application

168

(12)

MainMenu.nib

169

(1)

Setting Up the Menu Item

170

(2)

AppController.m

172

(1)

Preferences.nib

173

(5)

PreferenceController.m

178

(2)

For the More Curious: NSBundle

180

(1)

Challenge 1

181

(1)

Challenge 2

181

(2)

Chapter 10 User Defaults

183

(12)

NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary

184

(2)

NSDictionary

184

(1)

NSMutableDictionary

185

(1)

NSUserDefaults

186

(1)

Precedence of Different Types of Defaults

187

(1)

Setting the Identifier for the Application

188

(1)

Creating Keys for the Names of the Defaults

188

(1)

Registering Defaults

189

(1)

Let the User Edit the Defaults

189

(2)

Using the Defaults

191

(3)

Suppressing the Creation of Untitled Documents

191

(1)

Setting the Background Color on the Table View

192

(2)

For the More Curious: Reading and Writing Defaults from the Command Line

194

(1)

Challenge

194

(1)

Chapter 11 Using Notifications

195

(8)

What Notifications Are

195

(1)

What Notifications Are Not

196

(1)

NSNotification

196

(1)

NSNotificationCenter

196

(3)

Posting a Notification

199

(1)

Registering as an Observer

199

(1)

Unregistering the Observer

200

(1)

Handling the Notification When It Arrives

200

(1)

For the More Curious: Delegates and Notifications

201

(1)

For the More Curious: The userInfo Dictionary

201

(1)

Challenge 1

202

(1)

Challenge 2

202

(1)

Chapter 12 Using Alert Panels

203

(4)

Make the User Confirm the Deletion

204

(2)

Challenge

206

(1)

Chapter 13 Localization

207

(10)

Localizing a Nib File

208

(2)

String Tables

210

(4)

Creating String Tables

211

(2)

Using the String Table

213

(1)

For the More Curious: nibtool

214

(1)

For the More Curious: Explicit Ordering of Tokens in Format Strings

215

(2)

Chapter 14 Custom Views

217

(16)

The View Hierarchy

217

(2)

Get a View to Draw Itself

219

(6)

Create an Instance of a View Subclass

221

(1)

Size Info

222

(1)

drawRect

223

(2)

Drawing with NSBezierPath

225

(2)

NSScrollView

227

(2)

For the More Curious: Cells

229

(2)

For the More Curious: isFlipped

231

(1)

Challenge

232

(1)

Chapter 15 Images and Mouse Events

233

(16)

NSResponder

233

(1)

NSEvent

233

(2)

Getting Mouse Events

235

(1)

Using NSOpenPanel

235

(7)

Change the Nib File

237

(3)

awakeFromNib Versus init

240

(1)

Edit the Code

240

(2)

Composite an Image onto Your View

242

(2)

The View's Coordinate System

244

(2)

Autoscrolling

246

(1)

For the More Curious: NSlmage

247

(1)

Challenge

248

(1)

Chapter 16 Responders and Keyboard Events

249

(16)

NSResponder

251

(1)

NSEvent

251

(1)

Create a New Project with a Custom View

252

(9)

Edit the Nib File

252

(5)

Write the Code

257

(4)

For the More Curious: Rollovers

261

(4)

Chapter 17 Working with Fonts and NSAttributedString

265

(10)

NSFont

265

(1)

Commonly Used Methods in NSFont

265

(1)

NSAttributedString

266

(2)

Drawing Strings and Attributed Strings

268

(1)

Making Letters Appear

269

(2)

Getting Your View to Generate PDF Data

271

(3)

For the More Curious: NSFontlVlanager

274

(1)

Challenge 1

274

(1)

Challenge 2

274

(1)

Chapter 18 Pasteboards and Nil-Targeted Actions

275

(10)

NSPasteboard

276

(1)

Add Cut, Copy, and Paste to BigLettcrVicww

277

(2)

Nil-Targeted Actions

279

(3)

Looking at the Nib File

281

(1)

For the More Curious: Which Object Really Sends the Action Message?

282

(1)

For the More Curious: Lazy Copying

282

(1)

Challenge

283

(2)

Chapter 19 Categories

285

(4)

Add a Method to NSString

285

(3)

For the More Curious: Declaring Private Methods

288

(1)

Chapter 20 Drag-and-Drop

289

(8)

Make BigLetterView Be a Drag Source

290

(3)

After the Drop

292

(1)

Make BigLetterView Be a Drag Destination

293

(4)

registerForDraggedTypes

293

(1)

Add Highlighting

294

(1)

Implement the Dragging Destination Methods

295

(1)

Testing

296

(1)

Chapter 21 NSTimer

297

(8)

Lay Out the Interface

298

(2)

Make Connections

300

(2)

Adding Code to AppController

302

(2)

For the More Curious: NSRunLoop

304

(1)

Challenge

304

(1)

Chapter 22 Sheets

305

(12)

Adding a Sheet

306

(6)

Add Outlets and Actions

307

(1)

Lay Out the Interface

307

(3)

Add Code

310

(2)

For the More Curious: contextInfo

312

(1)

For the More Curious: Modal Windows

312

(1)

For the More Curious: Alert Sheets

313

(1)

For the More Curious: NSIDr.nv cr

313

(2)

Challenge

315

(2)

Chapter 23 Creating NSFormatlers

317

(14)

A Basic Formatter

318

(7)

Edit the Interface File for the AppController Class

319

(1)

Edit the Nib File

320

(1)

NSColorList

320

(1)

Searching Strings for Substrings

321

(1)

Create a Subclass of NSFormatter

322

(3)

The Delegate of the NSControl

325

(1)

Checking Partial Strings

326

(2)

Formatters That Return Attributed Strings

328

(1)

Challenge

329

(2)

Chapter 24 Printing

331

(12)

Adding Printing to TypingTutor

331

(2)

Dealing with Pagination

333

(6)

For the More Curious: Am I Drawing to the Screen?

339

(1)

Using ObjectAlloc

339

(2)

Challenge

341

(2)

Chapter 25 Updating Menus

343

(8)

Making a BigLetterView Uncopyable

344

(3)

For the More Curious: Menu Delegates

347

(4)

Chapter 26 Working with NSTextView

351

(18)

NSTextView

351

(2)

Messages the Delegate Will Be Sent

353

(1)

Build the Editor with Which This Book Was Written

354

(11)

Read, Write, and Edit Text Files

354

(4)

Add a Context-Sensitive Menu

358

(6)

Replace the Selection

364

(1)

For the More Curious: The Field Editor

365

(2)

Challenge

367

(2)

Chapter 27 Creating Interface Builder Palettes

369

(20)

Add NSCoding Methods to BigLetterView

371

(1)

Create a Palette Project

372

(1)

Edit the Nib File for Your Palette

373

(2)

palette.table

375

(1)

Build and Test

376

(1)

finishInstantiate

376

(2)

Adding an Inspector

378

(7)

Create a Nib File for Your Inspector

379

(5)

Code for an Inspector

384

(1)

Adding Bindings to a Custom View

385

(2)

For the More Curious: How to Palettize Objects That Are Not Views

387

(1)

Challenge

388

(1)

Chapter 28 AppleScript

389

(10)

Making an Application AppleScript-able

390

(2)

Create the Plists

392

(3)

Handling the Apple Events

395

(4)

Chapter 29 Cocoa and OpenGL

399

(8)

A Simple Cocoa/OpenGL Application

400

(7)

Chapter 30 Creating Frameworks

407

(10)

Create a Framework

408

(3)

Embed the Framework in an Application

411

(3)

Compile the Framework for Embedding

411

(1)

Compile the Application with the Framework

412

(2)

Prebinding

414

(1)

Zero-Link

415

(2)

Chapter 31 GNUstep

417

(10)

Creating a System That Will Run GNUstep Applications

418

(1)

Building and Starting the Development Tools

419

(1)

Creating the RandomApp with GNUstep

420

(7)

Chapter 32 The End

427

(2)

Index

429

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