Course Content
- User Interface Essentials
- Windows
- Dialogs
- Window Controllers
- Controls
- Buttons
- Text Fields
- Combo-box
- Pop-up
- Program Indicator
- Tab Controls
- Disclosures
- Tables
- Outline
- Segmented Control
- Menus
- Contextual Menus
- Alerts
- Panels
- Open and Save Panels
- Toolbars
- Views, View drawing
- MVC model
- Model-View-Controller
- What Are Views?
- Cocoa-Provided View Classes
- Container Views
- The Text System
- Controls
- View Geometry
- The View Coordinate System
- Understanding a View's Frame and Bounds
- What Is a View Hierarchy?
- Benefits of a View Hierarchy
- Locating Views in the View Hierarchy
- Adding and Removing Views from a Hierarchy
- Repositioning and Resizing Views
- Hiding Views
- Creating a Custom View
- Allocating the View
- Drawing View Content
- Responding to User Events and Actions
- Deallocating the View
- Split Views
- Text Views
- Image Views, Matrix Cells
- NSTableView, NSOutlineView, and NSBrowser Concepts
- Table Views
- Outline Views
- Browsers
- Combo Boxes
- Custom Controls
- Toolbars
- Status Bars
- NSQuickDrawView Class
- Event handling
- Introduction
- Application Events
- Mouse Events
- User Events
- drag and drop
- Delegates
- Notifications
- Cocoa Bindings
- What Are Cocoa Bindings?
- The Advantages of Using Bindings
- What Is a Binding?
- Binding Options
- Supporting Technologies
- Key-Value Binding
- Key-Value Coding
- Key-Value Observing
- User Defaults (preferences)
- Why Are NSControllers Useful?
- What Can You Bind?
- How Do Bindings Work?
- Unbinding
- Handling drag and drop
- Introduction to Drag and Drop
- Dragging Sources
- Drag Operations
- Drag Messages
- The Dragged Image
- Dragging Destinations
- The Sender of Destination Messages
- The Dragging Pasteboard
- Order of Destination Messages
- Receiving Drag Operations
- Dragging Files
- Dragging File Paths
- Dragging File URLs
- Dragging File Contents
- Dragging File Promises
- Using Drag and Drop in Tables
- Multi Threading
- Introduction to Threading Programming Guide
- Concurrency and Application Design
- About Concurrency
- Mac OS X Support
- Threads
- Operation Objects
- Synchronization Tools
- Run Loops
- NSThread
- Using NSObject to Spawn a Thread
- Terminating a Thread
- Synchronization and Thread Safety
- Interthread Communication
- Alternatives to Threads
- Design Tips
- Localization
- Introduction
- The Basics
- The Process
- The Code
- The Interface
- Updating the code
- Updating your Interface
- A Localization Example
