April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
book
Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
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For the More Curious: NSRunLoop
NSRunLoop is an object that waits. It waits for events to arrive and then forwards them to NSApplication. It waits for timer events to arrive and then forwards them to NSTimer. You can even attach a network socket to the run loop, and it will wait for data to arrive on that socket.