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For the More Curious: ibtool

For the More Curious: Explicit Ordering of Tokens in Format Strings

Chapter 17 Custom Views

The View Hierarchy

Get a View to Draw Itself

Create an Instance of a View Subclass

Size Inspector

drawRect

Drawing with NSBezierPath

NSScrollView

Creating Views Programmatically

For the More Curious: Cells

For the More Curious: isFlipped

Challenge

Chapter 18 Images and Mouse Events

NSResponder

NSEvent

Getting Mouse Events

Using NSOpenPanel

Change the XIB File

Edit the Code

Composite an Image onto Your View

The View’s Coordinate System

Autoscrolling

For the More Curious: NSImage

Challenge

Chapter 19 Keyboard Events

NSResponder

NSEvent

Create a New Project with a Custom View

Lay Out the Interface

Make Connections

Write the Code

For the More Curious: Rollovers

The Fuzzy Blue Box

Chapter 20 Drawing Text with Attributes

NSFont

NSAttributedString

Drawing Strings and Attributed Strings

Making Letters Appear

Getting Your View to Generate PDF Data

For the More Curious: NSFontManager

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

Chapter 21 Pasteboards and Nil-Targeted Actions

NSPasteboard

Add Cut, Copy, and Paste to BigLetterView

Nil-Targeted Actions

Looking at the XIB File

For the More Curious: Which Object Sends the Action Message?

For the More Curious: UTIs and the Pasteboard

Custom UTIs

For the More Curious: Lazy Copying

Challenge 1

Challenge 2

Chapter 22 Categories

Add a Method to NSString

For the More Curious: Declaring Private Methods

Chapter 23 Drag-and-Drop

Make BigLetterView a Drag Source

Starting a Drag

After the Drop

Make BigLetterView a Drag Destination

registerForDraggedTypes:

Add Highlighting

Implement the Dragging Destination Methods

Add a Second BigLetterView

For the More Curious: Operation Mask

Chapter 24 NSTimer

Lay Out the Interface

Make Connections

Add Code to TutorController

For the More Curious: NSRunLoop

Challenge

Chapter 25 Sheets

Adding a Sheet

Add Outlets and Actions

Lay Out the Interface

Add Code

For the More Curious: contextInfo

For the More Curious: Modal Windows

Chapter 26 Creating NSFormatters

A Basic Formatter

Create ColorFormatter.h

Edit the XIB File

NSColorList

Searching Strings for Substrings

Implement the Basic Formatter Methods

The Delegate of the NSControl Class

Checking Partial Strings

Formatters That Return Attributed Strings

For the More Curious: NSValueTransformer

Chapter 27 Printing

Dealing with Pagination

For the More Curious: Are you Drawing to the Screen?

Challenge

Chapter 28 Web Services

RanchForecast Project

NSURLConnection

Add XML Parsing to ScheduleFetcher

Lay Out the Interface

Write Controller Code

Opening URLs

Challenge: Add a WebView

Chapter 29 Blocks

Block Syntax

Memory and Objects within Blocks

Availability of Blocks

RanchForecast: Going Asynchronous

Receiving the Asynchronous Response

Challenge: Design a Delegate

Chapter 30 Developing for iOS

Porting RanchForecast to iOS

ScheduleFetcher

RootViewController

Add a Navigation Controller

ScheduleViewController

UITableViewController

Pushing View Controllers

Challenge

Chapter 31 View Swapping

Get Started

Create the ManagedViewController Class

Create ViewControllers and their XIB files

Add View Swapping to MyDocument

Resizing the Window

Chapter 32 Core Data Relationships

Edit the Model

Create Custom NSManagedObject Classes

Employee

Department

Lay Out the Interface

EmployeeView.xib

Events and nextResponder

Chapter 33 Core Animation

Scattered

Implicit Animation and Actions

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