Animation

• NSControlAnimator
• CoreAnimation
• Canvas animation
• ScrollView Animation
• Window animation
• NSShowAnimationEffect

Application object

• Application Icon
• Display Version
• Display Name
• Recent Items Menu
• Dock Badges
• Sudden termination
• Automatic Windows menu
• Apple About Box
• Multiple files dropped onto App icon
• Application is hidden or unhidden
• Launch arguments
• Reading properties from app's plist
• Bounce icon in dock
• Handling URL schemas

Apps that are running

• List of running applications
• Current Application
• Getting information
• Interacting with

App Nap

• Controlling App Nap

App Report

• What is App Report?
• Integrating into an app

App Sandbox

• Determining if the application is Sandboxed
• Window Restoration
• Recent Items Menu
• Security-Scoped Bodgemarks
• Launching included Applications
• Interface to choose photos/videos
• Using shared memory
• Apple Script in a Sandboxed application

Apple Script

• Apple Script in a Sandboxed application
• Apple Script in NON-Sandboxed app
• Execute shell commands with authorization

Controls

• CoreAnimation
• Precision scrolling
• Scrolling inertia to provide a bounce back
• Capturing contents as an image
• Capturing contents as PDF
• Setting a shadow on a control
• Button
  • Setting icons
• Canvas
  • Configuring Delegate
  • Rotation gesture
  • Magnify gesture
  • Smart Magnify gesture
  • A Swipe style gesture
  • Adding animation
  • Custom Focus Ring
• Color Well
  • Adding a Color Well
  • Events
  • Methods
  • Properties
• Image Well
  • Removing the border
  • Auto resizing images
  • Setting a system image
• Listbox
  • Transparent background
  • Drawing system images.
  • Alternating row colors
  • Invalidate row
  • ScrollView
• NSControlAnimator
  • Animating movement of controls
  • Methods
  • Shared Properties
  • Timing Functions
• Popup Menus
  • Action menu
  • Setting icons
  • Setting the style
  • Setting tool tips on items
• Scrollbars
  • Overlay "Style" Scrollbar
  • Events
  • Methods
  • Properties
  • Style options
• ScrollView
  • Adding a scrollView
  • Using with a Canvas
  • Using with a Listbox
  • Selection Rect
  • Methods
  • Properties
• Sliders
  • Slider Style
• Search field
  • Adding a Search Field
  • Events
  • Properties
  • searchActionOptions
• Segmented Controls
  • Setting icons
  • Image scaling
  • Selected Item Index
• Text Areas
  • Style controls
  • Auto link handling
  • Auto dash handling
  • Auto Quote handling
  • Auto text replacement
  • Loading RTFD data
  • Saving RTFD data
  • Handling images
• Visual Effect Views
  • Adding to a window
  • Adding to a canvas
  • Function description
  • Additional Functions
  • Materials
  • Blending Modes
• Window Splitter
  • Adding to a Window
  • Events
  • Properties
  • Enums

Email

• Create a text based e-mail
• Create a "Feedback" e-mail
• Create an e-mail with a file attachment

Errors

• Handling NSErrors
• Reporting exceptions
• Debugging a NSException
• Finding crash reports

Files

• File Icons
• File icons from name
• Finding an App by bundle identifier
• Opening a file in a specific app
• Creating a Symbolic Link
• Creating a Hard Link
• Creating a Bookmark file (Alias)
• Sending to Trash/Bin
• Revealing in the Finder
• Getting display type from a file
• Atomic file saving
• Spotlight data
• UTI information
• Xattrs
• Finder Tags

Fonts

• System Font Name
• System Font Sizes
• Font Weights
• Replicating older OSes
• WYSIWYG font menu

Graphics

• Clipping to a vector path
• Theme colors
• Possible colors
• Tiling a texture
• Dropshadows
• Transparency Layers
• Drawing system supplied icons
• Gradients
• Erasing content

Images

• Different image objects
• Drawing CGImages & NSImages
• Converting between image objects
• System supplied images
• Image names
• Loading images with CoreGraphics
• Reading image meta data
• Writing images & meta data.
• Quickly getting the thumbnail from an image
• Getting actual bytes of an image
• ICNS, ICO or Tiff for multi-image retina assets
• Creating a multi-image file
• Creating a HEIC image file

Menus

• Setting icons
• Alternative items
• Recent Items Menu
• Close All menu
• Automatic Windows menu
• Full Screen MenuItem
• About this application

Notifications

• Handling OS issued Notifications.
• Notifications between Xojo Objects
• User visible Notifications

Preferences system.

• Supported Data Types
• Saving Preferences
• Reading Preferences
• Saving & Restoring Window locations
• Removing a Preference
• Removing all preferences for an app

Property Lists

• Reading plist files
• Writing plist files
• Reading plist data
• Creating plist data

Save Dialog

• Adding a NSSavePanel to your app
• Adding custom options

Shared Memory

• Setting up with the parent/controller app
• Accessing from the helper application

Sharing Services

• Building a list of services
• Sharing the users data
• Handling the sharing delegate
• Did the share fail or succeed?
• Attaching to the window

System Information

• OS Version
• Testing OS Version
• Testing OS functionality
• Installed memory
• Uptime
• Computer is to enter or exit sleep
• Disks are connected or removed
• Responding to the system theme change.
• How many active cores are available
• Thermal state of the machine
• Computer name

Toolbars

• Controls on the Toolbar
• Customizing the appearance
• Using system icons

User

• Username
• User's name
• User's Language
• Media Browser

Windows

• Built-in animation
• Customizing the appearance
• Auto Tabbed Windows
• Obscured from the users view
• Moved screen
• Clamping window size to the screen
• Entering Full Screen
• Customizing the full screen experience
• Exiting Full Screen
• Started to move
• About to Resize
• Adjusting the location of sheet windows
• App Store style window example
• Adding a Visual Effect View to a window
• Automatically restoring when app re-opens
• Making a Pallet window that auto-reopens and recalls it's position

Zip Files

• Creating Zip files
• Extracting Zip Files
• Exploring a Zip file
• Reading a file inside a zip