Cocoa Programming for MacOS X

NSCoder and NSCoding 154 The Document Architecture 157 Saving and NSKeyedArchiver 161 Loading and NSKeyedUnarchiver 162 Setting the Extension and Icon for the File Type 163 For the More Curious: Preventing Infinite Loops 166 For the More Curious: Creating a Protocol 167 For the More Curious: Document-Based Applications without Undo 167 Universal Type Identifiers 168 Chapter 11: Basic Core Data 171 NSManagedObjectModel 171 Interface 173 How Core Data Works 180 Chapter 12: Nib Files and NSWindowController 183 NSPanel 183 Adding a Panel to the Application 184 For the More Curious: NSBundle 194 Challenge 195 Chapter 13: User Defaults 197 NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary 198 NSUserDefaults 200 Setting the Identifier for the Application 202 Creating Keys for the Names of the Defaults 202 Registering Defaults 203 Letting the User Edit the Defaults 203 Using the Defaults 205 For the More Curious: NSUserDefaultsController 207 For the More Curious: Reading and Writing Defaults from the Command Line 207 Challenge 208 Chapter 14: Using Notifications 209 What Notifications Are 209 What Notifications Are Not 210 NSNotification and NSNotificationCenter 210 Posting a Notification 212 Registering as an Observer 213 Handling the Notification When It Arrives 214 The userInfo Dictionary 214 For the More Curious: Delegates and Notifications 215 Challenge 216 Chapter 15: Using Alert Panels 217 Make the User Confirm the Deletion 218 Challenge 221 Chapter 16: Localization 223 Localizing a Nib File 224 String Tables 226 For the More Curious: ibtool 230 For the More Curious: Explicit Ordering of Tokens in Format Strings 231 Chapter 17: Custom Views 233 The View Hierarchy 233 Getting a View to Draw Itself 235 Drawing with NSBezierPath 240 NSScrollView 242 Creating Views Programmatically 245 For the More Curious: Cells 245 For the More Curious: isFlipped 247 Challenge 248 Chapter 18: Images and Mouse Events 249 NSResponder 249 NSEvent 249 Getting Mouse Events 251 Using NSOpenPanel 251 Composite an Image onto Your View 256 The View's Coordinate System 258 Autoscrolling 261 For the More Curious: NSImage 261 Challenge 262 Chapter 19: Keyboard Events 263 NSResponder 265 NSEvent 265 Create a New Project with a Custom View 266 For the More Curious: Rollovers 274 The Fuzzy Blue Box 275 Chapter 20: Drawing Text with Attributes 277 NSFont 277 NSAttributedString 278 Drawing Strings and Attributed Strings 280 Making Letters Appear 281 Getting Your View to Generate PDF Data 283 For the More Curious: NSFontManager 286 Challenge 1 286 Challenge 2 286 Chapter 21: Pasteboards and Nil-Targeted Actions 287 NSPasteboard 288 Add Cut, Copy, and Paste to BigLetterView 289 Nil-Targeted Actions 290 For the More Curious: Which Object Sends the Action Message? 293 For the More Curious: Lazy Copying 293 Challenge 1 294 Challenge 2 294 Chapter 22: Categories 295 Add a Method to NSString 295 For the More Curious: Declaring Private Methods 297 For the More Curious: Declaring Informal Protocols 297 Chapter 23: Drag-and-Drop 299 Make BigLetterView a Drag Source 300 Make BigLetterView a Drag Destination 303 For the More Curious: Operation Mask 307 Chapter 24: NSTimer 309 Lay Out the Interface 311 Make Connections 312 Adding Code to AppController 314 For the More Curious: NSRunLoop 316 Challenge 316 Chapter 25: Sheets 317 Adding a Sheet 318 For the More Curious: contextInfo 324 For the More Curious: Modal Windows 325 Chapter 26: Creating NSFormatters 327 A Basic Formatter 328 The delegate of the NSControl 334 Checking Partial Strings 335 Formatters That Return Attributed Strings 337 Chapter 27: Printing 339 Dealing with Pagination 339 For the More Curious: Am I Drawing to the Screen? 344 Challenge 344 Chapter 28: Web Service 345 AmaZone 346 Lay Out the Interface 347 Write Code 349 Challenge: Add a WebView 353 Chapter 29: View Swapping 355 Design 356 Resizing the Window 362 Chapter 30: Core Data Relationships 365 Edit the Model 365 Create Custom NSManagedObject Classes 366 Lay Out the Interface 369 Events and nextResponder 372 Chapter 31: Garbage Collection 375 Non-object Data Types 376 Polynomials Example 377 Instruments 383 For the More Curious: Weak References 385 Challenge: Do Bad Things 385 Chapter 32: Core Animation 387 Creating CALayer 388 Using CALayer and CAAnimation 390 Chapter 33: A Simple Cocoa/OpenGL Application 397 Using NSOpenGLView 397 Writing the Application 398 Chapter 34: NSTask 405 Multithreading versus Multiprocessing 405 ZIPspector 406 Asynchronous Reads 410 iPing 411 Challenge: .tar and .tgz files 415 Chapter 35: The End 417 Challenge 418 Index 419