Inside Mac OS X - Developing Cocoa Objective-C Applications - A Tutorial

Developing Cocoa Objective-C Applications: A Tutorial......Page 1
Contents......Page 3
What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial......Page 7
Object Notation......Page 11
Model Objects......Page 13
Hybrid Models......Page 14
MVC in Currency Converter’s Design......Page 15
Creating the Currency Converter Project......Page 17
Select Project Type......Page 18
Creating the Currency Converter Interface......Page 22
Open the Main Nib File......Page 23
NSWindow and the Window Server......Page 24
Resize the Window......Page 25
Set the Window’s Title and Attributes......Page 27
Duplicate an Object......Page 28
Assign Labels to the Fields......Page 29
Add a Button to the Interface and Initialize It......Page 32
Add a Horizontal Decorative Line......Page 33
Aqua Layout and Object Alignment......Page 34
Finalize the Window Layout......Page 35
Enable Tabbing Between Text Fields......Page 36
Set the initialFirstResponder for the Window......Page 37
Test the Interface......Page 38
Application and Window Behavior......Page 39
Menu Commands......Page 40
Custom Drawing and Animation......Page 41
Help......Page 42
Classes and Objects......Page 43
Specify a Subclass......Page 44
Outlets......Page 45
When You Make a Connection in Interface Builder......Page 46
Target/Action in Interface Builder......Page 47
Define the Outlets of the Class......Page 48
Generate an Instance of the Class......Page 50
Connect the Custom Class to the Interface......Page 51
Connect the Interface Controls to the Class’s Actions......Page 53
Generate the Source Files......Page 54
Messages and Method Implementations......Page 55
Declarations......Page 56
Examine an Interface (header) File in Project Builder......Page 57
Add a method declaration......Page 58
Implement Currency Converter’s Classes.......Page 59
Implement the awakeFromNib method......Page 60
Integrated Documentation Viewing......Page 61
Build, Debug, and Run Currency Converter......Page 62
Build the Project......Page 63
Look Up Documentation......Page 64
Using the Graphical Debugger......Page 66
Run Currency Converter......Page 68
Cocoa Developer Documentation......Page 69
Developer Tools Help......Page 70
Other Resources......Page 71