Learn Cocoa on the Mac by Mark, Dave -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Foreword About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - Must Love Cocoa

Get a Mac and Download the Tools Download the Source Code Getting Help What You Need to Know Before You Begin Are You Ready?

Chapter 2 - Hello, World

Building “Hello, World” Exploring the Nib File The Library Dragging Out a Label Using the Blue Guidelines The Inspector Window The Attributes Inspector Change the Label’s Color and Font Using the Menu Editor Creating Your Application Icon Adding Your Icon to Your Project Property Lists Running Your Application Sharing Your Creation With the World Goodbye, Hello World

Chapter 3 - Lights, Camera… Actions! (and Outlets, Too)

This Chapter’s Application Frameworks, Frameworks Everywhere The Cocoa Way: Model-View-Controller Outlets, Actions, and Controllers Outlets and Actions in Action Implementing the Action Method The Application Delegate Bring It on Home

Chapter 4 - GUI Components

Creating the VillainTracker Application Building Your Interface Getting Started with Coding In Conclusion

Chapter 5 - Using Table Views

Preparing AppController for Multiple Villains Making Way for the Table View Tweaking the Autosizing Characteristics Making Some New Connections Making Way for the Table View: Code Edition The Table View Needs Your Help Adding and Deleting Villains In Conclusion

Chapter 6 - Cocoa Bindings

Binding to Simple Controls Binding to NSUserDefaultsController Create the Main Window Binding to a Table View Show History in Tables Okay, But How Did That Work? In Conclusion

Chapter 7 - Core Data Basics

What You’ve Been Missing Creating MythBase Exploring the Template Code Adding Business Logic In Conclusion

Chapter 8 - Core Data Relationships

Modeling New Entities and Relationships Updating the GUI Wrapping Up Relationships

Chapter 9 - Search and Retrieve Core Data with Criteria

Creating QuoteMonger Limiting Results with NSPredicate User-Defined Predicates In Conclusion

Chapter10 - Windows and Menus and Sheets

NSWindow and NSPanel System Menus Wrap-up

Chapter11 - Document-Based Applications

Creating the ColorMix Application Setting Two Colors Settling on a File Format Adding Color About Undo and Redo In Conclusion

Chapter12 - Exceptions, Signals, Errors, and Debugging

Exception Handling Worse than Exceptions: Death by Signal In Conclusion

Chapter13 - Drawing in Cocoa

Fundamentals Creating an NSView Subclass LOLmaker Printing Basics Wrapping Up

Chapter14 - Advanced Drawing Topics

Editing a Curve Core Animation: A Primer What Have We Done?

Chapter15 - Working with Files

Implicit File Access Filing It All Away

Chapter16 - Concurrency

SlowWorker Threading Basics Vitalizing SlowWorker GCD: Low-Level Queuing A Little Concurrency Goes a Long Way

Chapter17 - Future Paths

More Cocoa-isms Ported Cocoa Here at the End of All Things

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