Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS® X Lion™ App Development in 24 Hours

Hour 14. Working with Documents, Versions, and Autosave

What you’ll learn in this hour:

• How to Build Document-Based Applications

• Creating Core Data Documents

• Using Versions

• Understanding Autosave

Up to this point in the book, you have learned quite a bit about building Cocoa applications for Mac OS X Lion. You’ve explored the creation of robust user interfaces and learned how to bind those interfaces to different kinds of data sources.

In the preceding hour, you learned about Core Data and how to create data-driven applications that can read and write their persistent data from a SQLite database, a binary file, or an XML file.

In this hour, you’ll learn about how to create document-based applications. Rather than the application communicating ...