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Cocoa in a Nutshell
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Cocoa® 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 OS®
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 Aqua®
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 application
toolkits the grounding they'll need to start developing Cocoa applications.
Common programming tasks are described, and many chapters focus on the larger
patterns in the frameworks so developers can understand the larger relationships
between the classes in Cocoa, which is essential to using the framework effectively.
Cocoa in a Nutshell is divided into two parts, with the first part providing
a series of overview chapters that describe specific features of the Cocoa frameworks.
Information you'll find in Part I includes:
- An overview of the Objective-C language
- Coverage of the Foundation and Application Kit frameworks
- Overviews of Cocoa's drawing and text handling classes
- Network services such as hosts, Rendezvous URL services, sockets, and file
handling
- Distributed notifications and distributed objects for interapplication communication
- Extending Cocoa applications with other frameworks, including the AddressBook,
DiscRecording, and Messaging frameworks
The second half of the book is a detailed quick reference to Cocoa's Foundation
and Application Kit (AppKit) classes. A complement to Apple's documentation,
Cocoa in a Nutshell is the only reference to the classes, functions,
types, constants, protocols, and methods that make up Cocoa's Foundation and
Application Kit frameworks, based on the Jaguar release (Mac OS X 10.2).
Peer-reviewed and approved by Apple's engineers to be part of the Apple Developer
Connection (ADC) Series, Cocoa in a Nutshell is the book developers will
want close at hand as they work. It's the desktop quick reference they can keep
by their side to look something up quickly without leaving their work.
Cocoa in a Nutshell is the book developers will want close at hand as
they work. It's the desktop quick reference they can keep by their side to look
something up quickly without leaving their work.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Introducing Cocoa
1. Objective-C
Objects
Messaging
Classes
Creating Object Instances
Memory Management
Deallocating Objects
Categories
Naming Conventions
2. Foundation
Data
Key-Value Coding
Working with Files
Bundles and Resource Management
Archiving Objects
User Defaults
Notifications
Operating System Interaction
Threaded Programming
3. The Application Kit
AppKit Design Patterns
Nibs
Application Architecture
Controls
Menus
Sheets
Drawers
Toolbars
Event Handling
Document-Based Applications
4. Drawing and Imaging
The Role of Quartz
Coordinate Systems
Graphics Contexts
Working with Paths
Drawing Text
Working with Color
Working with Images
Transformations
5. Text Handling
Text System Architecture
Assembling the Text System
6. Networking
Hosts
URL Resources
Rendezvous Network Services
Sockets
NSFileHandle
7. Interapplication Communication
NSPipe
8. Other Frameworks
AddressBook
The Message Framework
Disc Recording Frameworks
Third-Party Frameworks
II. API Quick Reference
How to Use This Quick Reference
9. Foundation Types and Constants
Data Types
Enumerations
Global Variables
Constants
Exceptions
10. 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
11. Application Kit Types and Constants
Data Types
Enumerations
Global Variables
Exceptions
12. Application Kit Functions
Accessibility
Applications
Events
Fonts
Graphics: General
Graphics: Window Depth
Interface Styles
OpenGL
Panels
Pasteboards
System Beep
13. Foundation Classes
14. Foundation Protocols
15. Application Kit Classes
16. Application Kit Protocols
Method Index
III. Appendix
Appendix: Resources for Cocoa Developers
Index
About the Authors
Michael Beam lives in Houston, Texas, is coauthor
of Cocoa in a Nutshelland is a Unix applications developer for a seismic data
processing firm (X11 and Motif are a far cry from Cocoa!). Mike graduated from
the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'Em!) in 2001, where he studied physics
and astronomy. When he's not at his day job, or writing about Cocoa in his sometimes
night job, Mike spends his time with his friends, and his soon-to-be wife Heather.
To unwind from the stresses of life Mike enjoys a good book, and practices Chayon-Ryu
martial arts, and indulges in favorite sin of watching South Park.
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.
Duncan regularly presents at conferences all over
the world on topics ranging from open source and collaborative development to
programming Java more effectively. He didn't graduate with a Computer Science
degree, but sees that as a benefit in helping explain how software works. His
educational background is in Architecture (the bricks and mortar kind), the
essence of which he applies to every software problem that finds him.
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