• How an Event Enters a Cocoa Application

• Event Dispatch

• The Path of Mouse and Tablet Events

• The Path of Key Events

• Other Event Dispatching

• Action Messages

• Responders

• First Responders

• Next Responders

• The Responder Chain

• Responder Chain for Event Messages

• Responder Chain for Action Messages

• Other Uses

• NSEvent Objects

• Attributes of an Event Object

• NSEvent Class Methods

• Event Objects in Methods of Other Classes

• Event Types

• Mouse Events

• Events Related to Mouse Clicks and Movements

• Mouse Tracking Events

• Key Events

• Tablet Events

• Overview of Tablet Devices

• Types of Tablet Events

• Proximity Events

• Pointer Events

• Sequence of Tablet Events

• Other Types of Events

• Preparing a Custom View for Receiving Events

• Implementing Action Methods

• Getting the Location of an Event

• Testing for Event Type and Modifier Flags

• Responder-Related Tasks

• Determining First-Responder Status

• Setting the First Responder

• Overview of Mouse Events

• Handling Mouse Clicks

• Handling Mouse Dragging Operations

• The Three-Method Approach

• The Mouse-Tracking Loop Approach

• Filtering Out Key Events During Mouse-Tracking Operations

• Overview of Key Events

• Overriding the keyDown: Method

• Handling Keyboard Actions and Inserting Text

• Specially Interpreting Keystrokes

• Handling Key Equivalents

• Keyboard Interface Control

• Creating an NSTrackingArea Object

• Managing a Tracking-Area Object

• Responding to Mouse-Tracking Events

• Managing Cursor-Update Events

• Compatibility Issues

• Packaging of Tablet Events

• Tablet Events and the Responder Chain

• Key Bindings

• Key Bindings in Xcode

• Standard Action Methods for Selecting and Editing

• Selection Direction

• Selection and insertion point

• Marks

• The kill buffer

• Text System Defaults

• NSMnemonicsWorkInText

• NSRepeatCountBinding

• NSQuotedKeystrokeBinding

• NSTextShowsInvisibleCharacters)

• NSTextShowsControlCharacters

• NSTextSelectionColor

• NSMarkedTextAttribute and NSMarkedTextColor)

• NSTextKillRingSize

• Handling Mouse-Tracking Events

• Managing Cursor-Update Events