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The Cocoa Bindings system is a toolset available in Panther which allows you to
define relationships between user interface and data objects. This means
a lot less code, and a lot more functionality
for free.
This tutorial walks you
through the conversion of a standard application into a bindings application.
April 30, 2004
The Cocoa development environment encourages the "Model-View-Controller" design pattern. This article demonstrates how Perl can serve as a resource for the "Model" components of Cocoa applications. The PerlObjCBridge makes it fairly easy to provide an Aqua interface to a Perl utility, or to add Perl's power to Objective-C in the "Model." [
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An easy tutorial on building an NSMenuExtra. [
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This easy tutorial will introduce you to the new Cocoa Framework named Web Kit. Step by step you'll create a Web Browser with only 1 line of code. [
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This tutorial shows you how to add export to PDF support to an application for single page and multi page documents. [
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A quick tutorial on how to implement the NSDraggingDestination informal protocol. This is what lets a view receive drag and drop operations. [
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This tutorial shows you how to create a "menu extra" by using the NSStatusItem class and having the application run in the background. [
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This tutorial steps you through making a simple plugin and tells you how to build both plugins and applications that accept the capability. [
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This tutorial shows how to add drop shadows to the items drawn in a NSView using the ShadowView subclass. [
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This article describes how you would go about checking the user's version of Mac OS X, either to enable or disable a feature, or do other things. [
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This tutorial - a real quickie - shows you how to subclass NSView to override some key events, like mouseDown: and mouseMoved:. [
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A quick overview of the simplest of the OmniFrameworks, including OBObject and the OBASSERT macros. [
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This tutorial will add mouse events to the Rotate app to control the transformations. The translations will be controlled by normal mouse clicks and dragging. Rotation and scaling will both be controlled by either control clicking or by the right mouse button if the user has a multi button mouse. In addition, scaling will also depend on the shift key being pressed. [
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Guidelines to help choose the right class to use in Cocoa's Foundation classes, as well as how to use them most effectively. [
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This tutorial shows you how to create a custom palette to use in Interface Builder. [
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Jiiva provides us with a new way to store resources. This article answers the questions "why and how". [
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Ever download an application that had a "Check for New Release" or "Version" feature? Ever wonder just how that was done. It's cake! This tutorial is one of our shortest. [
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How to use multiple Nibs in order to easily have multiple intances of resources loaded and running in your application [
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Tutorial on using NSAffineTransform to perform transformations and ABCRotation to control the rotate transform. [
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This tutorial explains how to make an About Box with scrolling credits. As an added bonus you will also learn how to make a Secret About Box. [
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This tutorial will show you how to use Portable Distributed Objects to communicate between threads and processes, including a fairly involved example that will stretch beyond just this article. [
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This article explains how to include a framework inside of your application's bundle in order to avoid requiring installation of the framework by the user. [
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Event though Mac OS X is GUI-based, sometimes you just need something that requires the terminal. [
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An introduction on how to create a PreferencePane. [
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This tutorial shows you how to create a preference pane that can be added to the System Preferences application. Specifically, a pane is created that allows you to control the position of the scroll arrows on the scroll bar and offers more options than what Apple provides in the General preferences. [
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This tutorial shows how to add a toolbar to a window and how to customize it. [
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A quick intro to how to use Cocoa's NSThread class to create and destroy threads, and its synchronization classes to keep them from ruining each other's data. [
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A tutorial with examples of using the XML-based property list methods and also the binary-encoded NSArchiver based methods to create persistent objects. [
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This tutorial shows how to add a custom dock menu to your application. [
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This article covers a very simple tool used to grab all the files in a folder. Many people don't even know that this exists! [
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This article discusses debugging in Mac OS X using Unix tools like GDB, functionality like assert and NSLog/printf, and more. This is not for a Cocoa newbie, but should serve debugging newbies well. [
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Getting at each pixel of an image is somewhat complex at times. This tutorial shows you how to add noise to an image, and then remove that noise with a "smoothing" algorithm. [
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Using Darwin's ppplib to connect, disconnect and receive PPP-events. [
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This tutorial describes the steps necessary to make a full screen application. [
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AppKit and Foundation are great, but your development power can be strengthened by using third-party frameworks. Read this article to get started with OmniFrameworks, a set of powerful frameworks from The Omni Group. [
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Objects talk to each other in Cocoa. One of the ways they "converse" is with "notifications." This tutorial shows you how to use notifications. [
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Using NSTask's setStandardOutput: for displaying information from a command. [
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Versioning is an important feature for many projects. This tutorial teaches you how to use versioning in your project. [
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I wrote a Hangman app (which runs in a console window) a long time ago. This tutorial converts that code to a Cocoa hangman app. It's much simpler than you might think! [
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Using NSTask and an interface to help regular users. [
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This tutorial describes how to easily write a screen saver module. [
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How to create a disk image to distribute your applications [
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