Re: Newbie doc question
Re: Newbie doc question
- Subject: Re: Newbie doc question
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:21:07 -0600
On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 10:58 AM, Irwin Poche wrote:
Can someone tell me what the formal name for messages (such as
floatValue
and makeKeyAndOrderFront) in objective-C are called.
I'd call them 'selectors'. At least that's what the structure that
tracks them in the ObjC runtime is called. You could also call them
'methods', if you were referring to the implementation of them.
Keep in mind, however, that a selector is NOT analogous to a method --
there can be selectors for which there is no implementation (cf.
forwardInvocation, etc...).
Where in /Developer/Documentation is the doc on them stored. I don't
know
why I'm unable to find this information - even with a Sherlock contents
search.
Sherlock isn't set up to index the developer docs on your disk by
default. You have to drag the documentation folders into Sherlock by
hand to index them.
I'd start by reading the Objective C documentation here:
/Developer/Documentation/Cocoa/ObjectiveC
Brian
email@hidden
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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