Companion eBook Available Learn Objective-C on the Mac Everything You Need to Know to Become an Objective-C Guru Learn Objective-C on the Mac Dalrymple Knaster Mark Dalrymple | Scott Knaster spine = 0.8382" 360 page count Learn Objective-C on the Mac Penciled by MARK DALRYMPLE Inked by SCOTT KNASTER Learn Objective-C on the Mac Copyright © 2009 by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-1815-9 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-1816-6 Printed and bound in the United States of America Trademarked names may appear in this book Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the 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caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work The source code for this book is available to readers at http://www.apress.com For Jerri Shertzer—teacher, mentor, friend —Mark INDEX code folding, 117 Code Sense (code completion), 106 collapsing/expanding a section of code, 116 command-line parameters, 29 Command Line Utility, comments, fixing manually, 112 completion menu as a quick API class reference, 107 Console window, continue button, 126 converting NSEnumerator loops into fast enumeration, 148 cpp file extension, creating the Hello Objective-C program, datatips, 128 debugger controls, 126 debugging, 123 delimiters, closing up, 108 documentation and reference materials for, 121 documentation bookmarks, 123 Edit all in Scope mode, 110 Editor icon, 104 emacs, list of key bindings, 113 features for writing code easier, 105 Find in Project command, 109 focus ribbon, 116 Foundation Tool, function menu, 118 GDB debugger, 124 GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), Groups & Files pane, 90, 103–104 Groups, setting up, 90 gutter, 116, 124 highlighting a section of code, 116 included files menu, 120 indenting source code, 105 Key Bindings pane, 105 keyboard shortcuts, table of, 129 kissing the parentheses, 108 launch arguments, 29 lock icon, 120 making a file read-only, 120 making a new Cocoa Application project, 250 m file extension, navigating around source code, 113 navigating up and down a class hierarchy, 119 navigation bar, 118 New Project, objc_exception_throw, 144 opening a source file in its own window, 104 organizing the project and source code editors, 103 organizing the source files in an Xcode project, 90 #pragma mark, 119 program state, definition of, 128 projectwide search and replace, 109 project window, 6, 90 property list editor, 268 quickly opening a header file, 115 recovering from a previous snapshot, 109 refactoring tools, 111 Re-indent selection, 105 Research Assistant window, 121 running a program with the debugger, 124 search box, using, 104, 114 searching Apple’s official API documentation, 122 selecting Breakpoints from the Run menu, 143 selecting File, New File, 88, 91 selecting Objective-C class, 88, 91 single-stepping through code, 126 Snapshot checkbox, 112 Snapshot Failed error message, 109 splitting the source window in half, 120 standard boilerplate code in newly created files, 90 step out button, 128 step over button, 126 supplying a file path in, 29 syntax coloring, 111 taking a snapshot of the project state, 109 Targets, 104 Treat Warnings as Errors checkbox, 12 using a Debug build configuration, 124 using Objective-C++, 312 using the program defaults, 101 working with Xcode 3.1, 101 See also Cocoa xib files, definition of, 253 Z zone, definition of, 238 337 Offer valid through 6/09 ... Learn Objective- C on the Mac Penciled by MARK DALRYMPLE Inked by SCOTT KNASTER Learn Objective- C on the Mac Copyright © 2009 by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster All rights... —Mark INDEX code folding, 117 Code Sense (code completion), 106 collapsing/expanding a section of code, 116 command-line parameters, 29 Command Line Utility, comments, fixing manually, 112 completion... Sun Microsystems, Inc Lead Editors: Clay Andres and Dave Mark Technical Reviewer: Jeff LaMarche Editorial Board: Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Tony Campbell, Gary Cornell,