Cocoa in a Nutshell



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Cocoa in a Nutshell
By Michael Beam, James Duncan Davidson

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Date Published	: May 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00462-1
Pages	: 566

How This Book Is Organized

Conventions Used in This Book

How the Quick Reference Was Generated

Comments and Questions

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introducing Cocoa

Chapter 1. Objective-C

Section 1.1. Objects

Section 1.2. Messaging

Section 1.3. Classes

Section 1.4. Creating Object Instances

Section 1.5. Memory Management

Section 1.6. Deallocating Objects

Section 1.7. Categories

Section 1.8. Naming Conventions

Chapter 2. Foundation

Section 2.1. Data

Section 2.2. Key-Value Coding

Section 2.3. Working with Files

Section 2.4. Bundles and Resource Management

Section 2.5. Archiving Objects

Section 2.6. User Defaults

Section 2.7. Notifications

Section 2.8. Operating System Interaction

Section 2.9. Threaded Programming

Chapter 3. The Application Kit

Section 3.1. AppKit Design Patterns

Section 3.2. Nibs

Section 3.3. Application Architecture

Section 3.4. Controls

Section 3.5. Menus

Section 3.6. Sheets

Section 3.7. Drawers

Section 3.8. Toolbars

Section 3.9. Event Handling

Section 3.10. Document-Based Applications

Chapter 4. Drawing and Imaging

Section 4.1. The Role of Quartz

Section 4.2. Coordinate Systems

Section 4.3. Graphics Contexts

Section 4.4. Working with Paths

Section 4.5. Drawing Text

Section 4.6. Working with Color

Section 4.7. Working with Images

Section 4.8. Transformations

Chapter 5. Text Handling

Section 5.1. Text System Architecture

Section 5.2. Assembling the Text System

Chapter 6. Networking

Section 6.1. Hosts

Section 6.2. URL Resources

Section 6.3. Rendezvous Network Services

Section 6.4. Sockets

Section 6.5. NSFileHandle

Chapter 7. Interapplication Communication

Section 7.1. NSPipe

Chapter 8. Other Frameworks

Section 8.1. AddressBook

Section 8.2. The Message Framework

Section 8.3. Disc Recording Frameworks

Section 8.4. Third-Party Frameworks

Part II: API Quick Reference

Chapter 9. Foundation Types and Constants

Section 9.1. Data Types

Section 9.2. Enumerations

Section 9.3. Global Variables

Section 9.4. Constants

Section 9.5. Exceptions

Chapter 10. Foundation Functions

Section 10.1. Assertions

Section 10.2. Bundles

Section 10.3. Byte Ordering

Section 10.4. Decimals

Section 10.5. Java Setup

Section 10.6. Hash Tables

Section 10.7. HFS File Types

Section 10.8. Map Tables

Section 10.9. Object Allocation

Section 10.10. Objective-C Runtime

Section 10.11. Path Utilities

Section 10.12. Points

Section 10.13. Ranges

Section 10.14. Rects

Section 10.15. Sizes

Section 10.16. Uncaught Exceptions

Section 10.17. Zones

Chapter 11. Application Kit Types and Constants

Section 11.1. Data Types

Section 11.2. Enumerations

Section 11.3. Global Variables

Section 11.4. Exceptions

Chapter 12. Application Kit Functions

Section 12.1. Accessibility

Section 12.2. Applications

Section 12.3. Events

Section 12.4. Fonts

Section 12.5. Graphics: General

Section 12.6. Graphics: Window Depth

Section 12.7. Interface Styles

Section 12.8. OpenGL

Section 12.9. Panels

Section 12.10. Pasteboards

Section 12.11. System Beep

Chapter 13. Foundation Classes

NSAppleEventDescriptor

NSAppleEventManager

NSAssertionHandler

NSAttributedString

NSAutoreleasePool

NSClassDescription

NSConditionLock

NSCreateCommand

NSDateFormatter

NSDecimalNumber

NSDecimalNumberHandler

NSDeleteCommand

NSDirectoryEnumerator

NSDistantObject

NSDistantObjectRequest

NSDistributedLock

NSDistributedNotificationCenter

NSExistsCommand

NSIndexSpecifier

NSKeyedArchiver

NSKeyedUnarchiver

NSMachBootstrapServer

NSMessagePortNameServer

NSMethodSignature

NSMiddleSpecifier

NSMutableAttributedString

NSMutableCharacterSet

NSMutableDictionary

NSMutableString

NSNameSpecifier

NSNetServiceBrowser

NSNotificationCenter

NSNotificationQueue

NSNumberFormatter

NSPortNameServer

NSPositionalSpecifier

NSPropertyListSerialization

NSPropertySpecifier

NSProtocolChecker

NSRandomSpecifier

NSRangeSpecifier

NSRecursiveLock

NSRelativeSpecifier

NSScriptClassDescription

NSScriptCoercionHandler

NSScriptCommand

NSScriptCommandDescription

NSScriptExecutionContext

NSScriptObjectSpecifier

NSScriptSuiteRegistry

NSScriptWhoseTest

NSSocketPortNameServer

NSSpecifierTest

NSUniqueIDSpecifier

NSWhoseSpecifier

Chapter 14. Foundation Protocols

NSComparisonMethods

NSDecimalNumberBehaviors

NSKeyValueCoding

NSMutableCopying

NSObjCTypeSerializationCallBack

NSScriptingComparisonMethods

NSScriptKeyValueCoding

NSScriptObjectSpecifiers

NSURLHandleClient

Chapter 15. Application Kit Classes

NSAffineTransform

NSBitmapImageRep

NSCachedImageRep

NSCustomImageRep

NSDocumentController

NSGraphicsContext

NSLayoutManager

NSMutableParagraphStyle

NSNibControlConnector

NSNibOutletConnector

NSOpenGLContext

NSOpenGLPixelFormat

NSParagraphStyle

NSPopUpButtonCell

NSPrintOperation

NSProgressIndicator

NSQuickDrawView

NSSecureTextField

NSSecureTextFieldCell

NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter

NSTableHeaderCell

NSTableHeaderView

NSTextAttachment

NSTextAttachmentCell

NSTextContainer

NSTextFieldCell

NSWindowController

Chapter 16. Application Kit Protocols

NSAccessibility

NSChangeSpelling

NSColorPickingCustom

NSColorPickingDefault

NSComboBoxCellDataSource

NSComboBoxDataSource

NSDraggingDestination

NSDraggingSource

NSIgnoreMisspelledWords

NSInputServerMouseTracker

NSInputServiceProvider

NSMenuValidation

NSOutlineViewDataSource

NSServicesRequests

NSTableDataSource

NSTextAttachmentCell

NSTextStorageScripting

NSToolbarItemValidation

NSUserInterfaceValidations

NSValidatedUserInterfaceItem

NSWindowScripting

Part III: Appendix

Appendix A. Appendix: Resources for Cocoa Developers

Section A.1. Apple Documentation

Section A.2. Related Books

Section A.3. Web Sites

Section A.4. Mailing Lists

Section A.5. Partnering with Apple