Cocoa in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference

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ISBN: 9780596004620

ISBN-10: 0596004621

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Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Beam, James Duncan Davidson

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Cocoareg; is more than just a collection of classes, and is certainly more than a simple framework. Cocoa is a complete API set, class library, framework, and development environment for building applications and tools to run on Mac OSreg; X. With over 240 classes, Cocoa is divided into two essential frameworks: Foundation and Application Kit. Above all else, Cocoa is a toolkit for creating Mac OS X application interfaces, and it provides access to all of the standard Aquareg; interface components such as menus, toolbars, windows, buttons, to name a few. "Cocoa in a Nutshell begins with a complete overview of Cocoa's object classes. It provides developers who may be experienced with other…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 6.57" wide x 8.90" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C (published by O'Reilly & Associates) and is a frequent contributor to the O'Reilly Network online website as well as publisher of his own website, x180 ( http://www.x180.net ), where he keeps his popular weblog.Duncan was the creator of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems . While working at Sun, he authored two versions of the Java Servlet API specification as well as the Java API for XML Processing.



Preface



Introducing Cocoa



Objective-C


Objects


Messaging


Classes


Creating Object Instances


Memory Management


Deallocating Objects


Categories


Naming Conventions



Foundation


Data


Key-Value Coding


Working with Files


Bundles and Resource Management


Archiving Objects


User Defaults


Notifications


Operating System Interaction


Threaded Programming



The Application Kit


AppKit Design Patterns


Nibs


Application Architecture


Controls


Menus


Sheets


Drawers


Toolbars


Event Handling


Document-Based Applications



Drawing and Imaging


The Role of Quartz


Coordinate Systems


Graphics Contexts


Working with Paths


Drawing Text


Working with Color


Working with Images


Transformations



Text Handling


Text System Architecture


Assembling the Text System



Networking


Hosts


URL Resources


Rendezvous Network Services


Sockets


NSFileHandle



Interapplication Communication


NSPipe



Other Frameworks


AddressBook


The Message Framework


Disc Recording Frameworks


Third-Party Frameworks



API Quick Reference


How to Use This Quick Reference



Foundation Types and Constants


Data Types


Enumerations


Global Variables


Constants


Exceptions



Foundation Functions


Assertions


Bundles


Byte Ordering


Decimals


Java Setup


Hash Tables


HFS File Types


Map Tables


Object Allocation


Objective-C Runtime


Path Utilities


Points


Ranges


Rects


Sizes


Uncaught Exceptions


Zones



Application Kit Types and Constants


Data Types


Enumerations


Global Variables


Exceptions



Application Kit Functions


Accessibility


Applications


Events


Fonts


Graphics: General


Graphics: Window Depth


Interface Styles


OpenGL


Panels


Pasteboards


System Beep



Foundation Classes



Foundation Protocols



Application Kit Classes



Application Kit Protocols


Method Index



Appendix



Resources for Cocoa Developers


Index