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Cocoa-related resources =======================
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to wait for a reply from the list:
Apple's documentation ---------------------
The Cocoa Getting Started page.
If you haven't read any Cocoa documentation and want to learn
about
the technology, you should begin with this.
<http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/
GS_Cocoa/>
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* Finding documentation
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problem, a useful strategy is to go to the API reference for a
relevant class and look at its companion document. You can also
search the online documentation suite using the search field at the
top right of the page (see, for example,
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/index.html>). It
is often a good idea to check the "Restrict to Cocoa" box.
If you need more precise search, you can use the Advanced Search panel
at <http://developer.apple.com/search/>.
Remember you can also view and search the documentation in Xcode --
see the "Help" menu. You can see all the methods associated
with a class (and links to relevant documentation) using Xcode's Class
Browser (see the Project > Class Browser menu item). In Xcode, you
can Option-double-click on a symbol to look it up in the
documentation, and you can Command-double-click on a symbol to go to
the header file in which it is declared.
* Keeping documentation up-to-date
You can keep your local documentation up-to-date by using the
Documentation update preference in Xcode. Apple's developer
documentation is updated en bloc about once a month. An update
package is made available at about the same time that updates are
published on the web site.
Code examples -------------
Apple provides code samples in two places, on-disk (installed with the
developer tools) and online:
Developer examples
<file:///Developer/Examples/AppKit/>
ADC
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/>
Online resources ----------------
"UNOFFICIAL Cocoa-dev Frequently Asked Questions"
<http://www.alastairs-place.net/cocoa/faq.txt>
Especially useful for pointers to documents relating to memory
management
and book recommendations
List archives
<http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev>
Combined Apple and Omni Cocoa developer list archives
<http://www.cocoabuilder.com/>
Cocoa-related sites
<http://www.cocoadev.com/>
<http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/>
<http://www.stepwise.com/>
Cocoa Bindings
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
CocoaBindings/>
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
CocoaBindingsRef/>
<http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/cocoabindings.html>
<http://homepage.mac.com/mmalc/CocoaExamples/
controllers.html>
<http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000080.php>
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/06/
cocoa.html>
Google
<http://www.google.com/>
(It is sometimes the case that using the subject line of a post as
a search term in
Google will yield an answer. If this is the case, you have
probably not invested sufficient
effort into finding an answer to your problem, and you are likely
to receive a reprimand.)
Memory management -----------------
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Cocoa's memory management rules in posts to the list. Almost
invariably, someone makes a subtle or not-so-subtle mistake which then
results in confusion and additional messages to resolve the issue.
Simply post links to the relevant documentation, such as:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/
MemoryMgmt/Tasks/MemoryManagementRules.html>
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