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Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition
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Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 19. Keyboard Events

When the user types, where are the corresponding events sent? First, the window manager gets the event and forwards it to the active application. The active application forwards the keyboard events to the key window. The key window forwards the event to the “active” view. Which view, then, is the active one? Each window has an outlet called firstResponder that points to one view of that window. That view is the “active” one for that window. For example, when you click on a text field, it becomes the firstResponder of that window (Figure 19.1).

Figure 19.1. The First Responder of the Key Window Is “Active”

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When the user ...

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