Objective-C
Objective-C is the language used to program the Cocoa toolkit. It is a thin layer on top of C with a little additional syntax, a runtime component, and a big pile of metadata to support the dynamic nature of the language. But fundamentally, Objective-C is still C. Many programmers forget Objective-C’s C heritage and fail to take advantage of C’s language features and libraries.
C callbacks in Objective-C
A question that comes up fairly frequently in online forums is, “How do I put a method into a function pointer?” Nine times out of ten, the poster actually wants to use Cocoa with an existing C API that uses callbacks. A much better question is, “I’m using a C API that uses callbacks with Cocoa, how do I make it work?”
Even though ...
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