Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSApplication — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This is one of the three classes that define the overall architecture of the Application Kit, as well as the general behavior of Cocoa applications. The other two classes are NSView and NSResponder. Every AppKit-based application has an instance of NSApplication that is accessible through the global variable NSApp.

@interface NSApplication : NSResponder

// Accessor Methods

- (void)setMainMenu:(NSMenu *)aMenu;

- (NSMenu *)mainMenu;

- (void)setDelegate:(id)anObject;

- (id)delegate;

- (void)setWindowsNeedUpdate:(BOOL)needUpdate;

- (void)setAppleMenu:(NSMenu *)menu;

- (void)setApplicationIconImage:(NSImage *)image;

- (NSImage *)applicationIconImage;

- (void)setWindowsMenu:(NSMenu *)aMenu;

- (NSMenu *)windowsMenu;

- (void)setServicesMenu:(NSMenu *)aMenu;

- (NSMenu *)servicesMenu;

- (void)setServicesProvider:(id)provider;

- (id)servicesProvider;

// Class Methods

+ (void)detachDrawingThread:(SEL)selector toTarget:(id)target withObject:(id)argument;

+ (NSApplication *)sharedApplication;

// Instance Methods

- (NSModalSession)beginModalSessionForWindow:(NSWindow *)theWindow;

- (void)activateContextHelpMode:(id)sender;

- (void)abortModal;

- (void)activateIgnoringOtherApps:(BOOL)flag;

- (void)addWindowsItem:(NSWindow *)win title:(NSString *)aString filename:(BOOL)isFilename;

- (void)arrangeInFront ...