For the More Curious: Delegates and Notifications
An object that has made itself the delegate of a standard Cocoa object is probably interested in receiving notifications from that object as well. For example, if you have implemented a delegate to handle the windowShouldClose(_:) delegate method for a window, that same object is likely to be interested in the NSWindowDidResizeNotification from that same window.
If a standard Cocoa object has a delegate and posts notifications, the delegate is automatically registered as an observer for the methods it implements. If you are implementing such a delegate, how would you know what to call the method?
The naming convention is simple: Start with the name of the notification. Remove the ...
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