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Communicating With Objects

Several of the Cocoa adaptations of design patterns assist communication between objects in an application. These mechanisms and paradigms include delegation, notification, target-action, and the bindings technology. This chapter describes those mechanisms and paradigms.

Contents:

Communication in Object-Oriented Programs
Outlets
Delegates and Data Sources
The Target-Action Mechanism
Bindings
Notifications
Ownership of Delegates, Observers, and Targets




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