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Chapter 4 Memory Management

Living with Manual Reference Counting

Leak-Free Lottery

dealloc

Autoreleasing Objects

The Retain-Count Rules

Accessor Methods

Living with ARC

Strong References

Weak References

ARC Odds and Ends

Chapter 5 Target/Action

Some Commonly Used Subclasses of NSControl

NSButton

NSSlider

NSTextField

Start the SpeakLine Example

Lay Out the XIB File

Making Connections in Interface Builder

Implementing the SpeakLineAppDelegate Class

For the More Curious: Setting the Target Programmatically

Challenge

Debugging Hints

Chapter 6 Helper Objects

Delegates

The NSTableView and Its dataSource

SpeakLineAppDelegate Interface File

Lay Out the User Interface

Make Connections

Edit SpeakLineAppDelegate.m

Common Errors in Implementing a Delegate

Many Objects Have Delegates

For the More Curious: How Delegates Work

Challenge: Make a Delegate

Challenge: Make a Data Source

Chapter 7 Key-Value Coding and Key-Value Observing

Key-Value Coding

Bindings

Key-Value Observing

Making Keys Observable

Properties

Attributes of a Property

For the More Curious: Key Paths

For the More Curious: Key-Value Observing

Chapter 8 NSArrayController

Starting the RaiseMan Application

RMDocument.xib

Key-Value Coding and nil

Add Sorting

For the More Curious: Sorting without NSArrayController

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

Chapter 9 NSUndoManager

NSInvocation

How the NSUndoManager Works

Adding Undo to RaiseMan

Key-Value Coding and To-Many Relationships

Key-Value Observing

Undo for Edits

Begin Editing on Insert

For the More Curious: Windows and the Undo Manager

Chapter 10 Archiving

NSCoder and NSCoding

Encoding

Decoding

The Document Architecture

Info.plist and NSDocumentController

NSDocument

NSWindowController

Saving and NSKeyedArchiver

Loading and NSKeyedUnarchiver

Setting the Extension and Icon for the File Type

For the More Curious: Preventing Infinite Loops

For the More Curious: Creating a Protocol

For the More Curious: Automatic Document Saving

For the More Curious: Document-Based Applications without Undo

Universal Type Identifiers

Chapter 11 Basic Core Data

NSManagedObjectModel

Interface

View-Based Table Views

Connections and Bindings

How Core Data Works

For the More Curious: View-Based versus Cell-Based Table Views

Challenge

Chapter 12 NIB Files and NSWindowController

NSPanel

Adding a Panel to the Application

Setting Up the Menu Item

AppController.m

Preferences.xib

PreferenceController.m

For the More Curious: NSBundle

Challenge

Chapter 13 User Defaults

NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary

NSDictionary

NSMutableDictionary

NSUserDefaults

Precedence of Types of Defaults

Setting Defaults

The Identifier for the Application

Create Keys for the Names of the Defaults

Register Defaults

Letting the User Edit the Defaults

Using the Defaults

Suppressing the Creation of Untitled Documents

Setting the Background Color on the Table View

For the More Curious: NSUserDefaultsController

For the More Curious: Reading and Writing Defaults from the Command Line

Challenge

Chapter 14 Using Notifications

What Notifications Are and Are Not

What Notifications Are Not

NSNotification

NSNotificationCenter

Posting a Notification

Registering as an Observer

Handling the Notification When It Arrives

The userInfo Dictionary

For the More Curious: Delegates and Notifications

Challenge

Chapter 15 Using Alert Panels

Make the User Confirm the Deletion

Challenge

Chapter 16 Localization

Localizing a NIB File

String Tables

Creating String Tables

Using the String