Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook

David Chisnall has in-depth knowledge of Cocoa as both an implementer and a developer. He is an active contributor to the GNUstep project, which provides an open source implementation of the Cocoa APIs, and cofounded the Étoilé project to build a desktop environment atop GNUstep. He has created a new Objective-C runtime library, worked on Objective-C support in the clang compiler, and published papers on Objective-C. He wrote a popular series of articles on Objective-C and Cocoa for informIT.com and is the author of The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor (Addison-Wesley, 2008).

• Part I: Introducing Cocoa Chapter 1: Cocoa and Mac OS X 1.1 Understanding When to Use Cocoa1.2 Understanding Cocoa's Role in Mac OS X 1.3 Overview  Chapter 2: Cocoa Language Options 2.1 Object Orientation 2.2 Objective-C 2.3 Ruby and Python 2.4 Summary  Chapter 3: Using Apple's Developer Tools 3.1 Obtaining Apple's Developer Tools 3.2 Interface Builder 3.3 XCode 3.4 Objective-C 3.5 Cocoa Conventions3.6 Summary Part II: The Cocoa Frameworks Chapter 4: Foundation: The Objective-C Standard Library 4.1 General Concepts 4.2 Core Foundation Types 4.3 Basic Data Types 4.4 Collections 4.5 Enumeration 4.6 Property Lists 4.7 Interacting with the Filesystem 4.8 Notifications 4.9 Summary Chapter 5: Application Concepts 5.1 Run Loops 5.2 Applications and Delegates 5.3 The Responder Chain 5.4 Run Loops in Applications 5.5 Delegates and Notifications 5.6 The View Hierarchy 5.7 Summary Chapter 6: Creating Graphical User Interfaces 6.1 Positioning Views6.2 Nested Views 6.3 Creating Views 6.4 Cocoa Bindings 6.5 Summary  Chapter 7: Windows and Menus 7.1 Understanding Windows 7.2 Creating Windows 7.3 Creating Window Objects 7.4 Panels 7.5 Sheets 7.6 Alert Dialogs 7.7 Menus 7.8 Summary  Chapter 8: Text in Cocoa 8.1 Constructing and Deconstructing Strings8.2 Annotating Strings 8.3 Localization 8.4 Text Storage 8.5 Understanding Fonts 8.6 Displaying Text 8.7 Writing a Custom Text Container 8.8 Using Multiple Text Views 8.9 Summary Part III: Cocoa Documents Chapter 9: Creating Document-Driven Applications 9.1 The Cocoa Document Model 9.2 Creating the Application Skeleton9.3 Creating the Document 9.4 Extending the Outliner9.5 Supporting Undo 9.6 Adding Undo to the Outliner 9.7 Summary Chapter 10: Core Data 10.1 Introducing Data Modeling 10.2 Understanding Managed Objects 10.3 Attribute Types 10.4 Creating a Data Model 10.5 Choosing a Persistent Store 10.6 Storing Metadata 10.7 Automatic Undo 10.8 Core Data, Spotlight, and Time Machine 10.9 Summary  Part IV: Complex User Interfaces Chapter 11: Working with Structured Data 11.1 Data Sources and Delegates 11.2 Tables 11.3 Outline Views 11.4 Browsers 11.5 Collection Views11.6 Customizing Views with New Cells 11.7 Creating Master-Detail Views 11.8 Summary Chapter 12: Dynamic Views 12.1 Tabbed Views12.2 Inspecting the View Hierarchy 12.3 Modifying the View Hierarchy 12.4 Creating Dynamic Input Forms 12.5 Full-Screen Applications 12.6 Summary Part V: Advanced Graphics Chapter 13: Custom Views 13.1 The Graphics Context 13.2 Core Graphics 13.3 AppKit Drawing 13.4 Printing and Paginating Views 13.5 Extending Interface Builder with Palettes 13.6 Summary Chapter 14: Sound and Video14.1 Beeping 14.2 Playing Simple Sounds 14.3 Understanding Cocoa Movie Objects14.4 Adding Video 14.5 Editing Media 14.6 Low-Level Sound APIs14.7 Sound and Video Recording 14.8 Supporting Speech 14.9 Cocoa Speech Synthesis 14.10 Conversing with Users 14.11 Summary  Chapter 15: Advanced Visual Effects 15.1 Simple Animation 15.2 Core Animation Overview 15.3 Understanding Animation Concepts 15.4 Adding Simple Animations 15.5 Image Filters 15.6 Defining Transitions 15.7 Creating Complex Animations 15.8 3D Core Animation Transforms 15.9 OpenGL and Cocoa Views15.10 Quartz Composer15.11 SummaryChapter 16: Supporting PDF and HTML16.1 HTML in AppKit16.2 Advanced HTML Support 16.3 Dynamic Interfaces with WebKit16.4 PDF and Quartz 16.5 Displaying PDFs 16.6 SummaryPart VI: User Interface Integration  Chapter 17: Searching and Filtering 17.1 Maintaining Document Indexes 17.2 Displaying Search Boxes 17.3 Searching for Documents 17.4 Spotlight 17.5 Predicates 17.6 Quick Look 17.7 Summary Chapter 18: Contacts, Calendars, and Secrets 18.1 Address Book Overview 18.2 Getting Information About People 18.3 Searching the Address Book 18.4 Populating the "Me" vCard 18.5 Adding People to the Address Book 18.6 Storing Secrets 18.7 Calendars 18.8 Synchronizing Data 18.9 Summary Chapter 19: Pasteboards 19.1 Pasteboard Overview 19.2 Pasteboard Types 19.3 Filtered Types 19.4 Property List Data 19.5 Self-Encoding Objects 19.6 Files and Pasteboards 19.7 Copy and Paste 19.8 Drag and Drop 19.9 Drag and Drop with Data Views19.10 Summary Chapter 20: Services 20.1 Example Services 20.2 An Evaluate Service 20.3 Using Services 20.4 Controlling the Services Menu 20.5 Filter Services 20.6 Summary  Chapter 21: Adding Scripting21.1 Scripting Overview 21.2 Making Objects Scriptable21.3 Scripting from Cocoa 21.4 Exposing Services to Automator 21.5 Other Scripting Technologies 21.6 Summary  Part VII: System ProgrammingChapter 22: Networking 22.1 Low-Level Socket Programming 22.2 Cocoa Streams 22.3 URL Handling 22.4 Bonjour 22.5 Distributed Objects 22.6 Summary Chapter 23: Concurrency 23.1 Distributed Objects 23.2 Threading 23.3 Child Processes 23.4 Operation Queues 23.5 Grand Central Dispatch 23.6 OpenCL 23.7 Summary Part VIII: Appendixes Chapter 24: Portable Cocoa 24.1 NeXT and Sun 24.2 Mobile OS X on the iPhone24.3 OpenStep and GNU24.4 GNUstep 24.5 QuantumSTEP 24.6 Cocotron 24.7 GNUstepWeb and SOPE Chapter 25: Advanced Tricks 25.1 The Preprocessor 25.2 Control Structures 25.3 Clean Code 25.4 Optimization 25.5 Cross-Platform Cocoa25.6 The Runtime System