Cocoa® Programming

Chapter 9. Applications, Windows, and Screens

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The New Image Viewer

• Working with NSWindow

• Working with NSApplication

• Modal Loops

• Working with Sheets

• Working with Drawers

• Working with Screens

• Working with Panels

This chapter builds on information about the principal Application Kit framework classes introduced in Chapter 8, “The Application Kit Framework Overview.” To show how classes such as NSWindow and NSApplication are used in applications, this chapter extends the Image Viewer application started in Chapter 3, “Using Apple’s Developer Tools.” The Image Viewer application in Chapter 3 has many compelling features even though it does not contain a single line of custom code. In this chapter, custom classes are written to make Image ...