• The Delegate and Notifications

• System Services

• Subclassing Notes

• Methods to Override

• Special Considerations

• Alternatives to Subclassing

• Constructors

• Creating and Initializing an NSApplication

• Getting Information About the Framework

• Changing the Active Application

• Running the Event Loop

• Getting, Removing, and Posting Events

• Managing Sheets

• Managing Windows

• Hiding All Windows

• Setting the Application’s Icon

• Getting the Main Menu

• Managing the Window Menu

• Managing the Services Menu

• Showing Standard Panels

• Displaying Help

• Sending Action Messages

• Getting the Display Context

• Reporting an Exception

• Terminating the Application

• Assigning a Delegate

• Handling User Attention Requests

• Loading Nib Files

• Opening files

• Printing

• Supplying a dock menu

• Activating, launching, and updating an application

• Hiding and unhiding an application

• Terminating an application

• Handling errors

• appkitVersionNumber

• beep

• loadNibFromBundle

• loadNibNamed

• sharedApplication

• showSystemInfoPanel

• abortModal

• activateContextHelpMode

• activateIgnoringOtherApps

• addWindowsItem

• applicationIconImage

• arrangeInFront

• beginModalSessionForWindow

• beginSheet

• cancelUserAttentionRequest

• changeWindowsItem

• context

• currentEvent

• deactivate

• delegate

• discardEventsMatchingMask

• endModalSession

• endSheet

• finishLaunching

• hide

• hideOtherApplications

• isActive

• isHidden

• isRunning

• keyWindow

• mainMenu

• mainWindow

• makeWindowsPerform

• miniaturizeAll

• modalWindow

• nextEventMatchingMask

• orderFrontCharacterPalette

• orderFrontColorPanel

• orderFrontStandardAboutPanel

• orderFrontStandardAboutPanelWithOptions

• postEvent

• preventWindowOrdering

• registerServicesMenuTypes

• removeWindowsItem

• replyToApplicationShouldTerminate

• replyToOpenOrPrint

• reportException

• requestUserAttention

• run

• runModalForWindow

• runModalSession

• runPageLayout

• sendActionToTargetFromSender

• sendEvent

• servicesMenu

• servicesProvider

• setApplicationIconImage

• setDelegate

• setMainMenu

• setServicesMenu

• setServicesProvider

• setWindowsMenu

• setWindowsNeedUpdate

• showHelp

• stop

• stopModal

• stopModalWithCode

• targetForAction

• targetForActionToFrom

• terminate

• tryToPerform

• unhide

• unhideAllApplications

• unhideWithoutActivation

• updateWindows

• updateWindowsItem

• validRequestorForTypes

• windows

• windowsMenu

• windowWithWindowNumber

• applicationDidBecomeActive

• applicationDidChangeScreenParameters

• applicationDidFinishLaunching

• applicationDidHide

• applicationDidResignActive

• applicationDidUnhide

• applicationDidUpdate

• applicationDockMenu

• applicationOpenFile

• applicationOpenFiles

• applicationOpenFileWithoutUI

• applicationOpenTempFile

• applicationOpenUntitledFile

• applicationPrintFile

• applicationPrintFiles

• applicationPrintFiles

• applicationShouldHandleReopen

• applicationShouldOpenUntitledFile

• applicationShouldTerminate

• applicationShouldTerminateAfterLastWindowClosed

• applicationWillBecomeActive

• applicationWillFinishLaunching

• applicationWillHide

• applicationWillPresentError

• applicationWillResignActive

• applicationWillTerminate

• applicationWillUnhide

• applicationWillUpdate

• ApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification

• ApplicationDidChangeScreenParametersNotification

• ApplicationDidFinishLaunchingNotification

• ApplicationDidHideNotification

• ApplicationDidResignActiveNotification

• ApplicationDidUnhideNotification

• ApplicationDidUpdateNotification

• ApplicationWillBecomeActiveNotification

• ApplicationWillFinishLaunchingNotification

• ApplicationWillHideNotification

• ApplicationWillResignActiveNotification

• ApplicationWillTerminateNotification

• ApplicationWillUnhideNotification

• ApplicationWillUpdateNotification