Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes, Second Edition

Recipe 10. Add a Preferences Window

Highlights

Adding support for application preferences with the user defaults database

Implementing a preferences window

Using a tab view and tab view items

Changing a window’s title when its content changes

Resetting an alert’s suppression button in preferences

Synchronizing the preferences window with an alert’s suppression button

Using the windowDidBecomeKey: delegate method

Using the NSUserDefaultsDidChangeNotification notification

Changing the standard state of a window in preferences

Configuring a number formatter in Interface Builder

Setting printing preferences

Synchronizing the preferences window with a Print panel

Changing document autosaving intervals in preferences

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