Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes, Second Edition

Recipe 4. Add Controls to the Document Window

Highlights

Creating simple push buttons

Setting tab order in a window (the key view loop)

Writing action methods and using the sender parameter

Using the NSLog() function for debugging

Using format strings

Displaying Unicode characters

Manipulating text in the Cocoa text system

Controlling undo and redo in the Cocoa text system

Validating (enabling and disabling) buttons and other controls

Using Objective-C selectors

Creating and using Objective-C formal protocols

Creating push buttons with images

Creating a date picker

Using dates in Cocoa

Creating a search field

In Recipe 3, you created a powerful text editor, and you arranged to save its contents to disk and to read them back so that the user ...