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Application Kit Constants Reference

Framework
AppKit/AppKit.h
Declared in
AMBundleAction.h
AppKitErrors.h
NSErrors.h
NSGraphics.h
NSNibDeclarations.h

Overview

This document describes the constants defined in the Application Kit framework that are not defined in, or are not described in, a document for an individual class.

See Application Kit Data Types Reference for descriptions of other constants defined in enumerations.

Constants

There are three types of constant in this document: global variables, errors, and exceptions.

Global Variables

Color Space Names

Color-space names designate predefined color spaces. 

NSString *NSCalibratedWhiteColorSpace;
NSString *NSCalibratedBlackColorSpace;
NSString *NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace;
NSString *NSDeviceWhiteColorSpace;
NSString *NSDeviceBlackColorSpace;
NSString *NSDeviceRGBColorSpace;
NSString *NSDeviceCMYKColorSpace;
NSString *NSNamedColorSpace;
NSString *NSPatternColorSpace;
NSString *NSCustomColorSpace;

Constants
NSCalibratedWhiteColorSpace

Calibrated color space with white and alpha components (pure white is 1.0)

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSCalibratedBlackColorSpace

Calibrated color space with black and alpha components (pure black is 1.0)

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace

Calibrated color space with red, green, blue, and alpha components.

You can also create a color with HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) and alpha components and can extract these components.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSDeviceWhiteColorSpace

Device-dependent color space with white and alpha components (pure white is 1.0)

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSDeviceBlackColorSpace

Device-dependent color space with black and alpha components (pure black is 1.0)

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSDeviceRGBColorSpace

Device-dependent color space with red, green, blue, and alpha components.

You can also create a color with HSB (hue, saturation, brightness) and alpha components and can extract these components.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSDeviceCMYKColorSpace

Device-dependent color space with cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha components

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSNamedColorSpace

Catalog name and color name components

The components of this color space are indexes into lists or catalogs of prepared colors. The catalogs of named colors come with lookup tables that are able to generate the correct color on a given device.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSPatternColorSpace

Pattern image (tiled)

Identifies a pattern color space, which is simply an image that is repeated over and over again in a tiled pattern.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSCustomColorSpace

Custom NSColorSpace object and floating-point components describing a color in that space

A custom color-space object represents a color space that is not necessarily predefined by the Application Kit. See “Working With Color Spaces” for information on creating custom color-space objects.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

Discussion

You can use a color-space name in certain methods of NSColor that create or convert color objects. The name identifies the color space to be used for the operation.

Declared In
NSGraphics.h

Grayscale Values

These constants are the standard gray values for the 2-bit deep grayscale color space.

const float NSWhite;
const float NSLightGray;
const float NSDarkGray;
const float NSBlack;

Constants
NSWhite

A constant that specifies the white shade in the 2-bit deep grayscale color space.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSLightGray

A constant that specifies the light gray shade in the 2-bit deep grayscale color space.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSDarkGray

A constant that specifies the dark gray shade in the 2-bit deep grayscale color space.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

NSBlack

A constant that specifies the black shade in the 2-bit deep grayscale color space.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSGraphics.h.

Declared In
NSGraphics.h

NSInterfaceStyleDefault

NSInterfaceStyleDefault can be used to override the platform’s default interface style.

NSString *NSInterfaceStyleDefault;

Discussion

For more information, see the function NSInterfaceStyleForKey.

Interface Builder Constants

Type qualifiers used by Interface Builder to synchronize with Xcode. For more information, see Communicating With Objects in Cocoa Fundamentals Guide.

#define IBAction void
#define IBOutlet

Constants
IBAction

Type qualifier used by Interface Builder to synchronize actions added programmatically with its internal list of action methods defined for a project.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSNibDeclarations.h.

IBOutlet

Identifier used to qualify an instance-variable declaration so that Interface Builder can synchronize the display and connection of outlets with Xcode.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in AMBundleAction.h.

Declared In
NSNibDeclarations.h

NSWindow—Sizes

Obsolete constant values. Do not use.

NSSize NSIconSize;
NSSize NSTokenSize;

Errors

Attributed String Errors

These constants represent errors generated by NSAttributedString.

enum {
   NSTextReadInapplicableDocumentTypeError = 65806,
   NSTextWriteInapplicableDocumentTypeError = 66062,
   NSTextReadWriteErrorMinimum = 65792,
   NSTextReadWriteErrorMaximum = 66303
};

Constants
NSTextReadInapplicableDocumentTypeError

Indicates a problem reading data with the specified format.

Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

Declared in AppKitErrors.h.

NSTextWriteInapplicableDocumentTypeError

Indicates a problem writing data of the specified format.

Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

Declared in AppKitErrors.h.

NSTextReadWriteErrorMinimum

The beginning of a range of error codes reserved for future use.

Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

Declared in AppKitErrors.h.

NSTextReadWriteErrorMaximum

The end of a range of error codes reserved for future use.

Available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later.

Declared in AppKitErrors.h.

Discussion

These constants are returned in an NSError object.

Declared In
AppKitErrors.h

Exceptions

Application Kit Exception Names

These constants name the exceptions that the Application Kit can raise.

NSString *NSTextLineTooLongException;
NSString *NSTextNoSelectionException;
NSString *NSWordTablesWriteException;
NSString *NSWordTablesReadException;
NSString *NSTextReadException;
NSString *NSTextWriteException;
NSString *NSPasteboardCommunicationException;
NSString *NSPrintingCommunicationException;
NSString *NSAbortModalException;
NSString *NSAbortPrintingException;
NSString *NSIllegalSelectorException;
NSString *NSAppKitVirtualMemoryException;
NSString *NSBadRTFDirectiveException;
NSString *NSBadRTFFontTableException;
NSString *NSBadRTFStyleSheetException;
NSString *NSTypedStreamVersionException;
NSString *NSTIFFException;
NSString *NSPrintPackageException;
NSString *NSBadRTFColorTableException;
NSString *NSDraggingException;
NSString *NSColorListIOException;
NSString *NSColorListNotEditableException;
NSString *NSBadBitmapParametersException;
NSString *NSWindowServerCommunicationException;
NSString *NSFontUnavailableException;
NSString *NSPPDIncludeNotFoundException;
NSString *NSPPDParseException;
NSString *NSPPDIncludeStackOverflowException;
NSString *NSPPDIncludeStackUnderflowException;
NSString *NSRTFPropertyStackOverflowException;
NSString *NSAppKitIgnoredException;
NSString *NSBadComparisonException;
NSString *NSImageCacheException;
NSString *NSNibLoadingException;
NSString *NSBrowserIllegalDelegateException;
NSString *NSAccessibilityException;

Constants
NSTextLineTooLongException

Exception generated if a line is too long in a NSText object.

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSTextNoSelectionException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSWordTablesWriteException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSWordTablesReadException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSTextReadException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSTextWriteException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPasteboardCommunicationException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPrintingCommunicationException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSAbortModalException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSAbortPrintingException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSIllegalSelectorException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSAppKitVirtualMemoryException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadRTFDirectiveException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadRTFFontTableException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadRTFStyleSheetException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSTypedStreamVersionException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSTIFFException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPrintPackageException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadRTFColorTableException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSDraggingException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSColorListIOException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSColorListNotEditableException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadBitmapParametersException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSWindowServerCommunicationException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSFontUnavailableException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPPDIncludeNotFoundException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPPDParseException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPPDIncludeStackOverflowException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSPPDIncludeStackUnderflowException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSRTFPropertyStackOverflowException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSAppKitIgnoredException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBadComparisonException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSImageCacheException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSNibLoadingException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSBrowserIllegalDelegateException

Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

NSAccessibilityException

Available in Mac OS X v10.2 and later.

Declared in NSErrors.h.

Declared In
NSErrors.h

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