May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
18h 57m
English
Content preview from Building Cocoa Applications: A Step by Step Guide
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Menus and the Menu Bar
Menus contain a list of commands, states, and submenus that can be chosen with the mouse. The Mac OS X menu bar stretches across the top of the screen and is always visible, except when a slide show, full-screen video, or some other display application takes over the entire screen. The Apple menu , which drops down when the Apple icon (
) at the top left of the screen is clicked, is always available, even during application and document modal periods. The Apple menu, shown in Figure 1-13, is controlled by the operating system, not by any one application or by the user.
Figure 1-13. The Apple menu is always available and is controlled by the operating system
To the immediate right of the Apple menu is the application menu . The application menu changes depending on the active application, and it displays the active (or current) application’s name in bold text. By convention, the application menu contains commands that affect the entire application, such as Preferences, Hide Others, and Quit. The application menu for the TextEdit application is shown at the left in Figure 1-14.
Figure 1-14. Menu bar for TextEdit (top), with Application, File, Edit, and Window menus ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.