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This restricts the design of an application since specific command handling classes are needed, usually organized according to the. While Cocoa retains this approach for the most part, Objective-C's opens up more flexibility. Under Objective-C, methods are represented by a selector, a string describing the method to call. When a message is sent, the selector is sent into the Objective-C runtime, matched against a list of available methods, and the method's implementation is called.

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Since the selector is text data, this lets it be saved to a file, transmitted over a network or between processes, or manipulated in other ways. The implementation of the method is looked up at runtime, not compile time. There is a small performance penalty for this, but late binding allows the same selector to reference different implementations. By a similar token, Cocoa provides a pervasive data manipulation method called key-value coding (KVC). This allows a piece of data or property of an object to be looked up or changed at runtime by name.

Presentation: Many of the books screenshots look much cleaner than the prior version. I think that's mainly attributable to Apple deciding to tone down much of the visual clutter in the Aqua theme. The lack of the pinstripes in windows and menus really makes the documentation much easier on the eyes. The change is really much more dramatic and makes for a much more readable book. If You Read the First Edition: I've read the first edition, and I have to say that I got impatient with much of the earlier portions of the book. I wanted the examples for Bindings and other new additions to Cocoa.

A key part of the Cocoa architecture is its comprehensive views model. This is organized along conventional lines for an application framework, but is based on the (PDF) drawing model provided. This allows creating custom drawing content using -like drawing commands, which also allows automatic printer support and so forth. Since the Cocoa framework manages all the clipping, scrolling, scaling and other chores of drawing graphics, the programmer is freed from implementing basic infrastructure and can concentrate on the unique aspects of an application's content.

Such applications usually have a distinctive feel, since the Cocoa programming environment automates many aspects of an application to comply with Apple's. Further information: Cocoa continues the lineage of several (mainly the App Kit and Foundation Kit) from the and programming environments developed by in the 1980s and 1990s. Apple acquired NeXT in December 1996, and subsequently went to work on the operating system that was to be the direct successor of OpenStep. It was to have had an emulation base for applications, named Blue Box. The OpenStep base of libraries and binary support was termed Yellow Box.

I just finished it and it managed to bootstrap my understanding quite a bit. Right, here's a question that pops into my head whenever I see references to Cocoa/Carbon on slashdot.

Model-view-controller [ ]. Main article: The teams at eventually settled on a design philosophy that led to easy development and high code reuse. Named (MVC), the concept breaks an application into three sets of interacting object classes: • Model classes represent problem domain data and operations (such as lists of people/departments/budgets; documents containing sections/paragraphs/footnotes of stylized text).

It was then licensed to a third party and marketed as as of 2011. Memory management [ ] One feature of the Cocoa environment is its facility for managing dynamically allocated memory.

• is the object persistence framework included with Foundation and Cocoa and found in Cocoa.h. A key part of the Cocoa architecture is its comprehensive views model. This is organized along conventional lines for an application framework, but is based on the (PDF) drawing model provided. This allows creating custom drawing content using -like drawing commands, which also allows automatic printer support and so forth.

You can implement rather complex GUIs without writing a single line of code yourself (more so now thanks to the contoller objects supported) and without any other tool generating code for you. If you haven't really used Interface Builder and AppKit you should consider taking it for a serious spin. Often their is no need to code your GUI by hand.

This book covers just the underlying Obj-C language and the Core Foundation (NeXStep/OpenStep/GNUStep/Cocoa) API. Programming in Objective-C does not cover the GUI portion of Cocoa programming.

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Writes 'Aaron Hillegass new book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition, is a very helpful book for developers interested in getting not only their feet wet, but become totally immersed in creating applications using the OpenStep-derived API known now as Cocoa. Don't dive in without knowing how to swim in C++/Java, however.'

Named (MVC), the concept breaks an application into three sets of interacting object classes: • Model classes represent problem domain data and operations (such as lists of people/departments/budgets; documents containing sections/paragraphs/footnotes of stylized text). • View classes implement visual representations and affordances for human-computer interaction (such as scrollable grids of captioned icons and pop-up menus of possible operations). • Controller classes contain logic that surfaces model data as view representations, maps affordance-initiated user actions to model operations, and maintains state to keep the two synchronized. Cocoa's design is a fairly, but not absolutely strict application of MVC principles. Under OpenStep, most of the classes provided were either high-level View classes (in AppKit) or one of a number of relatively low-level model classes like NSString. Compared to similar MVC systems, OpenStep lacked a strong model layer. No stock class represented a 'document,' for instance.

Apple acquired NeXT in December 1996, and subsequently went to work on the operating system that was to be the direct successor of OpenStep. It was to have had an emulation base for applications, named Blue Box. The OpenStep base of libraries and binary support was termed Yellow Box.

In 2005, Apple announced that the Java bridge was to be deprecated, meaning that features added to Cocoa in macOS versions later than 10.4 would not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. At (WWDC) 2014, Apple introduced a new programming language named, which is intended to replace Objective-C. AppleScriptObjC [ ] Originally, AppleScript Studio could be used to develop simpler Cocoa applications. However, as of Snow Leopard, it has been deprecated. It was replaced with AppleScriptObjC, which allows programming in, while using Cocoa frameworks.

Applicability to a New Programmer: I'll underscore that this isn't for a new programmer. If you are new to C, I'd suggest reading the non-GUI text 'Programming in Objective-C' by Stephen G. An extensive background in object-oriented programming isn't as necessary (and in fact may be detrimental if your background is multiple inhereitance of the C++ world).

62 Challenge 64 Chapter 4: Memory Management 65 Turning the Garbage Collector On and Off 66 Living with the Garbage Collector 68 Living with Retain Counts 68 What Have You Done?

Starting with any of the other books you'll be banging your head against the wall as what you see and what they describe in terms of many of the actions will not match the current tools. I read through the first edition about a year ago, and found it to be an excellent hands-on tutorial, gradually walking the reader through the construction of increasingly complex apps.

•,: Cocoa in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, 1st Edition 2003, Paperback,. •: Cocoa Programming for Dummies, 1st Edition 2003, Paperback,. •,: Building Cocoa Applications: A Step by Step Guide, O'Reilly, 1st Edition 2002, Paperback,. •,: Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, O'Reilly, 3rd Edition 2012, Paperback,.

Firstly as other people have said there is no surprise in the fact that you could program a currency converter app in another environment. The two main reasons are that you are not yet familiar with XCode and Interface Builder (IB), and secondly that the Currency Converter example is overdesigned to demonstrate the principles behind MVC. As for the dynamic screen that adjusts itself to the data inside it, of course you can do this. This has always been fairly easy to accomplish, but 10.3 adds a concept ca. Another Addison-Wesley book called Design Patterns, Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software written by a gang of four programmers might explain the advantages and limitations behind something like the Model/View/Controller pattern more clearly than Apple's or Mr.

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I wonder how long he spent looking at it. The GNUstep-base (Foundation) reached 1.0 a long, long, long time ago (currently at 1.9.1) and is stable and featureful on both UNIX and Windows. GNUstep-gui (AppKit) is at 0.9.2 and is also very stable and useful on UNIX, getting there on Windows. GNUstep has very fine InterfaceBuilder and ProjectBuilder clones, a quickly growing number of excellent end-user applications. Also, it seems to me that the install is *not* difficult.

An object's type need not be known, yet any property of that object can be discovered using KVC. Also, by extending this system using something Cocoa terms key-value observing (KVO), automatic support for is provided. Late static binding is a variant of binding somewhere between static and dynamic binding. The binding of names before the program is run is called static ( early); bindings performed as the program runs are dynamic ( late or virtual). Rich objects [ ] One of the most useful features of Cocoa is the powerful base objects the system supplies. As an example, consider the Foundation classes NSString and NSAttributedString, which provide, and the system in AppKit, which allows the programmer to place string objects in the GUI.