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Objective-C and Cocoa: Warner Onstine President, Sandcast Software

The document discusses Objective-C and Cocoa. It defines Objective-C as an extension of C that provides object-oriented capabilities. It also defines Cocoa as a set of libraries for interacting with macOS, including Foundation Kit, AppKit, and others. The document then covers various aspects of Objective-C like protocols, categories, delegates, selectors, and UI building. It also discusses unit testing and new Cocoa features like Core Data and bindings.

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Objective-C and Cocoa: Warner Onstine President, Sandcast Software

The document discusses Objective-C and Cocoa. It defines Objective-C as an extension of C that provides object-oriented capabilities. It also defines Cocoa as a set of libraries for interacting with macOS, including Foundation Kit, AppKit, and others. The document then covers various aspects of Objective-C like protocols, categories, delegates, selectors, and UI building. It also discusses unit testing and new Cocoa features like Core Data and bindings.

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Objective-C and Cocoa

Warner Onstine
President, Sandcast Software

sandcastsoftware.com June 13, 2006


What is Objective-C?
• Extension of C to provide an object-oriented
interface
• Developed as a reaction to the up and
coming C++ development
• Closely related to Smalltalk in ideas and
some syntax
• Originally developed by Stepstone software
• Adopted by NeXT Computer for developing
applications on NeXTStep

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What is Cocoa?

• A set of libraries for interacting with OS X


• Foundation Kit
• AppKit
• Core Audio
• Core Image
• Web Kit (open source now)
• …plus many more

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Comparing Obj-C with Java

• Java Interfaces and Objective-C Protocols


• Types of Protocols
– Formal and informal
• No there is no garbage collection
– Init and alloc

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Protocols

• Informal - NSTableDataSource
• Formal - NSCoding

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Categories

• Allows classes to override previously defined


classes essentially replacing their
implementation with a custom one

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Objective-C Class definitions

• Header files
• Implementation files

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Delegates

• Similar to event listeners in Java land


• Delegates can handle events and hand them
off to other classes for handling

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Selectors

• Selectors give the developer the ability to


pass in a specific method to another class
• Chapter 8 pg. 186

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UI Building

• Introduction to Interface Builder

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Unit testing

• OCUnit - was external, now bundled with


Xcode
– http://www.sente.ch/software/ocunit/
• UnitKit - created by James Duncan Davidson
– http://unitkit.org/

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New features

• Core Data
• Cocoa bindings
• Core Image

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Sample Application -iWorkout

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Resources

• Learning Cocoa with Objective-C by James


Duncan Davidson
• Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron
Hillegass

• Both excellent books for starting to learn


programming on OS X

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