Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

18 Mouse Events

In the previous chapter, you learned to use drawing commands to make a read-only view. A more useful view would be able to accept user input, and what better place to start than handling mouse events?

NSResponder

NSView inherits from NSResponder. All the event-handling methods are declared in NSResponder. We will discuss keyboard events in the next chapter. For now, we will focus on mouse events. NSResponder declares these methods:

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