Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition

Index

Symbols

: (colon), method name with arguments, 36

@“...” construct, 47

@ symbol

C strings vs. NSStrings, 40–41

Objective-C keywords, 27

^operator, blocks, 372, 374

A

abstract class

defined, 160

NSCoder as, 160

NSController as, 129–130

acceptsFirstResponder method, keyboard events, 272–275, 280, 282

accessor methods

declaring for new class, 50–51

defined, 50

implementing, 123–125

actions

implicit animation and, 423–424

targets and. See target/action

actions

dictionary, 423

addObject method

add objects to end of array, 36

NSMutableArray, 46

addObjectsFromArray: method, NSMutableArray, 46

addOperationWithBlock: method, NSOperationQueue, 436–437

Alert panel

as modal window, 336–337

overview of, 229–230

using string table, 241

alloc method