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Leopard Technical Q&As: Cocoa
Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed specifically for developing Mac OS X-only native applications. The Cocoa frameworks support text input and display, handle fonts, convert text encodings, search text, and perform sophisticated typography.

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Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked (HTML)
QA1531: Describes how the value of NSStrokeWidthAttributeName indicates fill, stroke, or both, in attributed strings.
2008-03-25
Disabling text completion in an NSTextField (HTML)
QA1553: Shows how to implement a delegate method provided by NSControl to disable automatic text completion.
2008-02-27
Connecting the Font Menu in Interface Builder 3 (HTML)
QA1571: How to connect and configure the Font/Format menus in Interface Builder 3.
2008-01-21
How to make NSTextField accept tab, return and enter keys. (HTML)
QA1454: Describes how to make the NSTextField control accept tab, return and enter keys by using the control's dispatch delegate method.
2006-10-09
Embedding Hyperlinks in NSTextField and NSTextView (HTML)
QA1487: Shows how a Cocoa app can embed a hyperlink inside both NSTextField and NSTextView using NSAttributedString.
2006-10-02
Disabling and Enabling an NSTextView (HTML)
QA1461: Shows how a Cocoa application can disable and enable an NSTextView.
2006-09-11
Sorting Like the Finder (HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
2004-10-27
Converting to Precomposed Unicode (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QA1235: Describes how to convert a string to precomposed Unicode.
2003-02-07