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NSInvocation and, 145

overview of, 145

windows and, 158

NSURL class, 359

NSURLConnection

fetching data from Web service, 361–363

asynchronous, 377–381

NSURLRequest, 359, 361–363

NSUserDefaults, 207, 210–211

NSUserDefaultsController, 217

NSValueTransformer, 351

NSView

with cells, 253–254

custom views with, 241

drawing with NSBezierPath, 248–250

drawRect, 246–248

generating PDF data, 291–293

inheritance diagram for NSControl, 84–85

inheriting from NSResponder, 257

keyboard events. See keyboard events

Size Inspector, 244–246

starting drag, 312–313

NSViewController, 397, 399, 403

NSWindow

sheets. See sheets

becoming firstResponder, 271–272

initialfirstresponder outlet, 94

view hierarchy, 241–242

NSWindowController

defined, 163

document architecture, 167

loading NIB file without, 205

loading NIB files with. See NIB files and NSWindowController

pasteboards and nil-targeted actions, 301

NSWorkspace, 369

NSXMLDocument, 359–360

NSXMLNode, 359–360

NSXMLParser, 360, 363–366

NSXMLParserDelegate, 362, 364–366

O

Object Library, 17–18

object-oriented programming, Cocoa as, 5–6

object relationships, as focus of ARC, 81–82

objectAtIndex method, NSArray, 45

Objective-C

awakeFromNib method, 30–31

declaring classes in, 25

editing implementation file, 27–28

header file, 26–27

how messaging works, 65–66

instances, 35–37

Objective-C 2 features, 4

overview of, 35

single inheritance in, 26

static analyzer, 63–64

types and constants in, 26

Objective-C, creating own classes

implement description method, 52–53

initializers with arguments, 56–58

overview of, 48–49

initializers, 55–56

objects

archiving. See archiving

within blocks, 375–376

creating, sending messages to and destroying, 35–37

overview of, 5–6

retain count system, 69–70

observers

defined, 221

NSNotificationCenter methods, 222–224

one-to-one relationship in Core Data 407–408

Open menu item, NSDocument, 166–167

Open Recent menu item, NSDocument, 166–167

OpenGL

Core Animation. See Core Animation

overview of, 441

OpenOffice, NSAtrributedString file format, 288

OpenStep, 2–3

operators, in key paths, 126–127

opt-in garbage collector, Objective-C 2, 4

@optional, protocol, 173

ordered to-many relationships, key-value coding, 148–149

outlets

defined, 21

making connections, 23–25, 91–94

ownership, object, 76

P

pagination when printing, 353–357

panels

adding to application, 194–196

general windows vs., 193–194

parse method, NSXMLParser, 365–366

parse XML document, Web services, 359–360

partial strings, formatter that checks, 348–350

paste, 298–302. See also drag-and-drop

pasteboards

lazy copying, 304–305

nil-targeted actions and, 300–302

NSPasteboard, 296–298

overview of, 295–296

UTIs and, 303

PDFs

copying image on pasteboard as, 295

getting your view to generate, 291–293

printing, 353

Quartz generating, 2

using Cartesian coordinate system, 255

performance overhead

autorelease message, 79

garbage collector, 68

performDragOperation: message, 316, 318

performSelectorInBackground:withObject: method, 430–431, 435

performSelectorOnMainThead:withObject: waitUntilDone: method, 430–431

placeholder string, text fields, 87–89

plist

dumping localized strings into, 239–240

specifying application entitlements, 467

PNG image, copying data onto pasteboard as, 295

po (print-object)

debug console, 60

NSObject, 44

pointer

nil value and, 139

NSArray as list of, 45

using contextInfo when starting sheet as, 335–336

Pop-up button, 397–399, 402–403

posting notifications, 224–227

Powerbox, and mediated file access, 468

#pragma, 259

Preferences panel, creating

adding to application, 194–196

user defaults. See user defaults

prepareForDragOperation: message, 315–318

prepareWithInvocationTarget: method, NSUndoManager, 146–147

preprocessor macros, 62, 462–464

print-object (po)

debug console, 60

NSObject, 44

printing

drawing differently