Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Overview
1.2 Implementation Details

1.2.1 Drag and Drop
1.2.2 NSWorkspace

1.3 Contributing

2. Basic Concepts
3. GNUstep Applications

3.1 Components

3.1.1 Interface File(s)
3.1.2 Application property list
3.1.3 Makefile
3.1.4 Resource Files

3.2 Constructing an application
3.3 Building a First Application

3.3.1 Setup
3.3.2 Interface File
3.3.3 Code

4. Application Makefiles
5. Interface Files

5.1 Using Gorm

5.1.1 The Palette
5.1.2 The Inspector
5.1.3 The Objects Pane
5.1.4 The Classes Pane
5.1.5 Outlets and Actions: Connecting objects
5.1.6 NSOwner: Who controls your interface?
5.1.7 NSFirst

5.2 Loading and Instantiating Interface Files

6. Basic Controls

6.1 Basic NSControl Classes

6.1.1 Buttons (NSButton)
6.1.2 Text Field (NSTextField)
6.1.3 Combo Boxes (NSComboBox)
6.1.4 ImageViews (NSImageView)
6.1.5 Popup Buttons (NSPopupButton)
6.1.6 Scroller (NSScroller)
6.1.7 Slider (NSSlider)
6.1.8 Steppers (NSStepper)

6.2 Advanced control classes
6.3 Control Notifications
6.4 Control Delegate
6.5 Cell Classes

7. The view concept

7.1 Introduction
7.2 The view hierachy
7.3 Frames and Bounds
7.4 Manipulating the coordinate system
7.5 Subclassing NSView

7.5.1 Drawing code
7.5.2 NSBezierPath
7.5.3 Stroking, Filling and Clipping
7.5.4 Text
7.5.5 Images
7.5.6 Affine Transformations

7.6 Clipping

8. Event handling

8.1 The Responder Chain
8.2 Being a responder
8.3 Target/Action Paridgm

9. Tableviews

9.1 Columns
9.2 Supplying Data
9.3 Delegates
9.4 Notifications

10. Outline Views

10.1 Using a Data Source

11. Matrix Controls

11.1 Creating Matrix Controls
11.2 Using Matrix controls

12. Browsers

12.1 Browser Cells
12.2 Browser Methods
12.3 Browser Delegate

13. Data Exchange

13.1 Pasteboards

13.1.1 Constructing a pasteboard
13.1.2 Using an Owner

13.2 Cut and Paste
13.3 Drag and Drop

13.3.1 Dragging Sources
13.3.2 Dragging Destinations
13.3.3 Dragging Information

13.4 Services and Filter Services
13.5 Providing Services

13.5.1 Normal Services
13.5.2 Filter Services
13.5.3 Registering Services

13.6 Using Services

14. Images and Imageviews

14.1 Using NSImage
14.2 Drawing Images
14.3 Working with image representations

A. GNU Free Documentation License

A.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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