Re: Newbie doc question
Re: Newbie doc question
- Subject: Re: Newbie doc question
- From: Irwin Poche <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:04:48 -0600
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From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:21:07 -0600
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To: Irwin Poche <email@hidden>
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Cc: <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Newbie doc question
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On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 10:58 AM, Irwin Poche wrote:
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> Can someone tell me what the formal name for messages (such as
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> floatValue
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> and makeKeyAndOrderFront) in objective-C are called.
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I'd call them 'selectors'. At least that's what the structure that
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tracks them in the ObjC runtime is called. You could also call them
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'methods', if you were referring to the implementation of them.
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Keep in mind, however, that a selector is NOT analogous to a method --
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there can be selectors for which there is no implementation (cf.
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forwardInvocation, etc...).
So far I think of them as subroutines which gives you some idea how old I am
and how inexperienced with OOP I am.
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> Where in /Developer/Documentation is the doc on them stored. I don't
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> why I'm unable to find this information - even with a Sherlock contents
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> search.
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Sherlock isn't set up to index the developer docs on your disk by
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default. You have to drag the documentation folders into Sherlock by
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hand to index them.
My Sherlock content search was from an indexed Developer directory.
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I'd start by reading the Objective C documentation here:
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/Developer/Documentation/Cocoa/ObjectiveC
Thanks, Brian
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Brian
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email@hidden http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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