• The Role of NSView

• Cocoa-Provided View Classes

• Container Views

• The Text System

• Controls

• Non-Quartz Graphic Environments

• The View Coordinate System

• Understanding a View's Frame and Bounds

• Transforming the Coordinate System

• What Is a View Hierarchy?

• Benefits of a View Hierarchy

• Locating Views in the View Hierarchy

• Adding and Removing Views from a Hierarchy

• Repositioning and Resizing Views

• Moving and Resizing Views Programmatically

• Autoresizing of Subviews

• Notifications

• Hiding Views

• Converting Coordinates in the View Hierarchy

• View Tags

• Allocating the View

• Initializing View Instances Created in Interface Builder

• Drawing View Content

• Implementing the drawRect: Method

• Marking a View as Needing Display

• View Opacity

• Responding to User Events and Actions

• Becoming First Responder

• Handling Mouse Click and Dragging Events

• Tracking Mouse Movements

• Handling Key Events in a View

• Handling Action Methods via the Responder Chain

• Property Accessor Methods

• Deallocating the View

• Determining the Output Device

• Drawing Outside of drawRect:

• Avoid the Overuse of Views

• Specify View Opacity

• Invalidating Portions of Your View

• Constraining Drawing to Improve Performance

• Suppressing Default Clipping

• Drawing During Live Window Resizing

• Draw Minimally

• Cocoa Live Resize Notifications

• Preserve Window Content