Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass Publisher

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Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition
by Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: May 05, 2008
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-50361-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-50361-9
eText ISBN-10: 0-321-56273-9
eText ISBN-13: 978-0-321-56273-9
Pages: 464
Table of Contents
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Overview
The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies,
and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers.
"Aaron's book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming booksâ(cid:128)(cid:147)beautifully written, and thoughtfully
sculpted. The best book on Leopard development."
â(cid:128)(cid:147)Scott Stevenson, www.theocacao.com
"This is the first book I'd recommend for anyone wanting to learn Cocoa from scratch. Aaron's one of the few
(perhaps only) full-time professional Cocoa instructors, and his teaching experience shows in the book."
â(cid:128)(cid:147)Tim Burks, software developer and creator of the Nu programming language, www.programming.nu
"If you're a UNIX or Windows developer who picked up a Mac OS X machine recently in hopes of
developing new apps or porting your apps to Mac users, this book should be strongly considered as one of
your essential reference and training tomes."
â(cid:128)(cid:147)Kevin H. Spencer, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
If you're developing applications for Mac OS X, Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition, is
the book you've been waiting to get your hands on. If you're new to the Mac environment, it's probably the
book you've been told to read first. Covering the bulk of what you need to know to develop full-featured
applications for OS X, written in an engaging tutorial style, and thoroughly class-tested to assure clarity and
accuracy, it is an invaluable resource for any Mac programmer.
Specifically, Aaron Hillegass introduces the three most commonly used Mac developer tools: Xcode,
Interface Builder, and Instruments. He also covers the Objective-C language and the major design patterns of
Cocoa. Aaron illustrates his explanations with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa
community, to show you how Mac programs should be written. After reading this book, you will know
enough to understand and utilize Apple's online documentation for your own unique needs. And you will
know enough to write your own stylish code.
Updated for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, this revised edition includes coverage of Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, Core
Data, the garbage collector, and CoreAnimation.
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Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition
by Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: May 05, 2008
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-50361-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-50361-9
eText ISBN-10: 0-321-56273-9
eText ISBN-13: 978-0-321-56273-9
Pages: 464
Table of Contents
| Index
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Cocoa: What Is It?
A Little History
Tools
Language
Objects, Classes, Methods, and Messages
Frameworks
How to Read This Book
Typographical Conventions
Common Mistakes
How to Learn
Chapter 2. Let's Get Started
In Xcode
In Interface Builder
Back in Xcode
Documentation
What Have You Done?
Chapter 3. Objective-C
Creating and Using Instances
Using Existing Classes
Creating Your Own Classes
The Debugger
What Have You Done?
For the More Curious: How Does Messaging Work?
Challenge
Chapter 4. Memory Management
Turning the Garbage Collector On and Off
Living with the Garbage Collector
Living with Retain Counts
What Have You Done?
Chapter 5. Target/Action
Some Commonly Used Subclasses of NSControl
Start the SpeakLine Example
Lay Out the Nib File
Implementing the AppController Class
For the More Curious: Setting the Target Programmatically
Challenge
Debugging Hints
Chapter 6. Helper Objects
Delegates
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The NSTableView and Its dataSource
Lay Out the User Interface
Make Connections
Edit AppController.m
For the More Curious: How Delegates Work
Challenge: Make a Delegate
Challenge: Make a Data Source
Chapter 7. Key-Value Coding; Key-Value Observing
Key-Value Coding
Bindings
Key-Value Observing
Making Keys Observable
Properties and Their Attributes
For the More Curious: Key Paths
For the More Curious: Key-Value Observing
Chapter 8. NSArrayController
Starting the RaiseMan Application
Key-Value Coding and nil
Add Sorting
For the More Curious: Sorting without NSArrayController
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Chapter 9. NSUndoManager
NSInvocation
How the NSUndoManager Works
Adding Undo to RaiseMan
Key-Value Observing
Undo for Edits
Begin Editing on Insert
For the More Curious: Windows and the Undo Manager
Chapter 10. Archiving
NSCoder and NSCoding
The Document Architecture
Saving and NSKeyedArchiver
Loading and NSKeyedUnarchiver
Setting the Extension and Icon for the File Type
For the More Curious: Preventing Infinite Loops
For the More Curious: Creating a Protocol
For the More Curious: Document-Based Applications without Undo
Universal Type Identifiers
Chapter 11. Basic Core Data
NSManagedObjectModel
Interface
How Core Data Works
Chapter 12. Nib Files and NSWindowController
NSPanel
Adding a Panel to the Application
For the More Curious: NSBundle
Challenge
Chapter 13. User Defaults
NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary
NSUserDefaults
Setting the Identifier for the Application
Creating Keys for the Names of the Defaults
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Registering Defaults
Letting the User Edit the Defaults
Using the Defaults
For the More Curious: NSUserDefaultsController
For the More Curious: Reading and Writing Defaults from the Command Line
Challenge
Chapter 14. Using Notifications
What Notifications Are
What Notifications Are Not
NSNotification and NSNotificationCenter
Posting a Notification
Registering as an Observer
Handling the Notification When It Arrives
The userInfo Dictionary
For the More Curious: Delegates and Notifications
Challenge
Chapter 15. Using Alert Panels
Make the User Confirm the Deletion
Challenge
Chapter 16. Localization
Localizing a Nib File
String Tables
For the More Curious: ibtool
For the More Curious: Explicit Ordering of Tokens in Format Strings
Chapter 17. Custom Views
The View Hierarchy
Getting a View to Draw Itself
Drawing with NSBezierPath
NSScrollView
Creating Views Programmatically
For the More Curious: Cells
For the More Curious: isFlipped
Challenge
Chapter 18. Images and Mouse Events
NSResponder
NSEvent
Getting Mouse Events
Using NSOpenPanel
Composite an Image onto Your View
The View's Coordinate System
Autoscrolling
For the More Curious: NSImage
Challenge
Chapter 19. Keyboard Events
NSResponder
NSEvent
Create a New Project with a Custom View
For the More Curious: Rollovers
The Fuzzy Blue Box
Chapter 20. Drawing Text with Attributes
NSFont
NSAttributedString
Drawing Strings and Attributed Strings
Making Letters Appear
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Getting Your View to Generate PDF Data
For the More Curious: NSFontManager
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Chapter 21. Pasteboards and Nil-Targeted Actions
NSPasteboard
Add Cut, Copy, and Paste to BigLetterView
Nil-Targeted Actions
For the More Curious: Which Object Sends the Action Message?
For the More Curious: Lazy Copying
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Chapter 22. Categories
Add a Method to NSString
For the More Curious: Declaring Private Methods
For the More Curious: Declaring Informal Protocols
Chapter 23. Drag-and-Drop
Make BigLetterView a Drag Source
Make BigLetterView a Drag Destination
For the More Curious: Operation Mask
Chapter 24. NSTimer
Lay Out the Interface
Make Connections
Adding Code to AppController
For the More Curious: NSRunLoop
Challenge
Chapter 25. Sheets
Adding a Sheet
For the More Curious: contextInfo
For the More Curious: Modal Windows
Chapter 26. Creating NSFormatters
A Basic Formatter
The delegate of the NSControl
Checking Partial Strings
Formatters That Return Attributed Strings
Chapter 27. Printing
Dealing with Pagination
For the More Curious: Am I Drawing to the Screen?
Challenge
Chapter 28. Web Service
AmaZone
Lay Out the Interface
Write Code
Challenge: Add a WebView
Chapter 29. View Swapping
Design
Resizing the Window
Chapter 30. Core Data Relationships
Edit the Model
Create Custom NSManagedObject Classes
Lay Out the Interface
Events and nextResponder
Chapter 31. Garbage Collection
Non-object Data Types
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Polynomials Example
Instruments
For the More Curious: Weak References
Challenge: Do Bad Things
Chapter 32. Core Animation
Creating CALayer
Using CALayer and CAAnimation
Chapter 33. A Simple Cocoa/OpenGL Application
Using NSOpenGLView
Writing the Application
Chapter 34. NSTask
Multithreading versus Multiprocessing
ZIPspector
Asynchronous Reads
iPing
Challenge: .tar and .tgz files
Chapter 35. The End
Challenge
Index
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hillegass, Aaron.
Cocoa programming for Mac OS X / Aaron Hillegass. â(cid:128)(cid:148) 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-321-50361-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Cocoa (Application development environment) 2. Mac OS. 3. Operating systems
(Computers) 4. Macintosh (Computer)â(cid:128)(cid:148)Programming. I. Title.
QA76.76.O63H57145 2008
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First printing, May 2008
Dedication
For my sons, Walden and Otto
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