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Objective-C Pocket Reference

by Andrew Duncan

December 2002

Beginner

128 pages

3h 10m

English

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1.1.1. Typographic Conventions1.1.2. Acknowledgments
1.2.1. Dynamic Dispatch1.2.2. Dynamic Typing1.2.3. Dynamic Loading1.2.4. Which Objective-C?1.2.5. How Do I Get Started?
1.3.1. Objects1.3.2. Classes1.3.2.1. Declaring an interface1.3.2.2. Implementing a class1.3.3. Inheritance and Subtyping1.3.4. Fields1.3.4.1. Access modifiers1.3.5. Methods1.3.5.1. Declaring a method1.3.5.1.1. No parameters1.3.5.1.2. One parameter1.3.5.1.3. More than one parameter1.3.5.1.4. A variable number of parameters1.3.5.2. Implementing a method1.3.5.3. Calling a method1.3.5.4. Naming collisions1.3.5.5. Private methods1.3.5.6. Accessors1.3.5.7. Message search paths1.3.5.8. Special receivers1.3.5.9. Selectors1.3.6. Categories1.3.6.1. Declaring a category1.3.6.2. Implementing a category1.3.7. Protocols1.3.7.1. Declaring a protocol1.3.7.2. Adopting a protocol1.3.7.3. Checking for conformity to a protocol1.3.7.4. Informal protocols1.3.8. Declarations1.3.8.1. Dynamic typing1.3.8.2. Static typing1.3.8.3. Type qualifiers1.3.9. Predefined Types, Constants, and Variables1.3.9.1. Types1.3.9.2. Constants1.3.9.3. Variables
1.4.1. Class Declarations and Definitions1.4.2. Forward Declarations1.4.3. Expanding Directives1.4.3.1. Using @encode1.4.3.2. Using @defs1.4.3.3. Using @"string”1.4.4. Preprocessor Symbols
1.6.1. Pointer Parameter Qualifiers1.6.2. Return Value Qualifiers1.6.3. Object Qualifiers
1.7.1. Creating an Object1.7.1.1. Calling creation methods1.7.1.2. Writing creation methods1.7.1.3. Sample code for initialization1.7.1.4. Initializing classes1.7.2. Copying an Object1.7.2.1. Calling copy methods1.7.2.2. Writing copy methods1.7.3. Deallocating an Object1.7.3.1. Calling deallocation methods1.7.3.2. Writing deallocation methods
1.8.1. Object Error Handling1.8.2. Exceptions in Cocoa1.8.2.1. Keywords for handling exceptions1.8.2.2. A Cocoa exception handling example

1.9.1. Class Objects1.9.2. Metaclass Objects1.9.3. Selectors1.9.4. Protocol Objects
1.10.1. Fields1.10.2. Methods1.10.3. The Object Class1.10.3.1. Creating, copying, and freeing objects1.10.3.2. Identifying objects and classes1.10.3.3. Testing object type1.10.3.4. Testing inheritance and conformance1.10.3.5. Information about methods1.10.3.6. Sending messages1.10.3.7. Posing1.10.3.8. Enforcing intentions1.10.3.9. Error handling1.10.3.10. Archiving1.10.4. The NSObject Class1.10.4.1. Creating, copying, and freeing objects1.10.4.2. Identifying objects and classes1.10.4.3. Testing inheritance and conformance1.10.4.4. Information about methods1.10.4.5. Sending messages1.10.4.6. Posing1.10.4.7. Error handling1.10.4.8. Archiving1.10.4.9. Reference counting
1.11.1. Object Forwarding1.11.2. NSObject Forwarding
1.12.1. Manual Memory Management1.12.2. Reference Counting1.12.2.1. Maintaining an object’s reference count1.12.2.2. Creating a new object1.12.2.3. Receiving an object from another scope1.12.2.4. Returning an already-stored object1.12.2.5. Replacing an already-stored object1.12.2.6. Deallocating an object1.12.2.7. Retain cycles1.12.3. Garbage Collection
1.13.1. Archiving Descendants of Object1.13.2. Archiving Descendants of NSObject
1.14.1. Access Permissions1.14.2. NSKeyValueCoding Methods1.14.3. Handling Key Lookup Failures

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Objective-C Resources

If you want to learn more about Objective-C, your options are more numerous than ever. Following are some text and Internet resources that expand on the topics outlined in this handbook.

http://www.ora.com/catalog/objectcpr: Updates and corrections to this handbook.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/Objective-C/faq/: Frequently asked questions about Objective-C, and their answers.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf: A document summarizing the Objective-C language, and providing examples of its use with the Cocoa libraries.
news://comp.lang.objective-c: Usenet newsgroup for discussing Objective-C.
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_objective_c.html: Many helpful links to FAQs, tutorials, and other information about Objective-C.
http://gcc.gnu.org: Web site for releases and documentation for GNU’s gcc compiler.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/CocoaTopics.html: Web site for documentation of the Cocoa class library.
http://www.gnustep.org: Web site for releases and documentation for the GNUstep library, an open source version of Cocoa.
http://cocoa.mamasam.com: A searchable archive that combines several Cocoa developer mailing lists.
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: An introduction to both Objective-C and the Cocoa framework. By Aaron Hillegass. Addison-Wesley.
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C: An introduction to both Objective-C and the Cocoa framework. By James Duncan Davidson. O’Reilly & Associates.
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