The Property List Editor has been dropped as a standalone application. It is now fully integrated in XCode. If you click "open with..." on a .plist-file and select XCode.app, XCode will bring up the Property List Editor, but it's no standalone app anymore.

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JSCocoa brings Cocoa to Javascript.
It’s a bridge like PyObjC and RubyCocoa.

JSTalk is a scripting language for Mac OS X built on top of JavaScript, with a bridge to Apple's Cocoa libraries. You can use it to communicate with other applications just like AppleScript does

It has been several years that Mac OS X developer were able to create Cocoa application using the Python language. Here is my own experience with a few projects that I have created during the CS 662 class and a little tutorial on how to get started with Xcode, Cocoa and Python.

The site is called Cocoa Is My Girlfriend because it’s about programming and a passion for programming on iOS and OSX. Writing code is hard work but it’s fun. It’s science but it’s also art. It’s fun as well as infuriating. It’s often beautiful and sometimes ugly. It’s temperamental yet rewarding. Cocoa is My Girlfriend.

There are numerous situations where creating your own framework is advantageous.

Welcome to the OS X Applications page. The oldest running and best-kept list of OS X apps on the Internet.

may be dated.

The reason for this article should be obvious: too many OS X third party developers do an absolutely terrible job of building and packaging their applications.

Cocoa Source Code archive with Core Audio and MIDI examples for OSX10.6 and XCode 4.0.1.

If you like to study the examples start to study Audio Tool first.
You’re welcome to download and use the code

There are 10 projects in this blog. Go to archive for more.

A collection of source from different Google projects that may be of use to developers working other Mac projects. Also includes the Google Developer Spotlight Importers.

Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied.

The site is called Cocoa Is My Girlfriend because it’s about programming and a passion for programming on iOS and OSX. Writing code is hard work but it’s fun. It’s science but it’s also art. It’s fun as well as infuriating. It’s often beautiful and sometimes ugly. It’s temperamental yet rewarding. Cocoa is My Girlfriend.

Free Webcast Recording! Cocoa® Programming 1 & 2

Free Webcast Recording! Cocoa® Programming 1 & 2
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Creating level meters in Quartz Composer

F-Script, the Cocoa-based scripting environment, now provides some great tools for exploring Core Data databases

Kevin Ballard

The PyObjC project aims to provide a bridge between the Python and Objective-C programming languages. The bridge is intended to be fully bidirectional, allowing the Python programmer to take full advantage of the power provided by various Objective-C based toolkits and the Objective-C programmer transparent access to Python based functionality.

Vanilla is a Python wrapper around Cocoa. It was inspired by the classic W Python library.

The advantage of Vanilla is that it provides a very simple, familiar API for Cocoa. The disadvantage is that it doesn't use NIB files; you specify the interface programatically. There are tradeoffs either way. I personally prefer the simpler API over the niceties of InterfaceBuilder.

CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or Ruby, or Python, or... etc).

CocoaBits is the OS X division of bitart Consulting. At CocoaBits we have a passion for OS X and Cocoa!
- TmCodeBrowser: CocoaBits is the OS X division of bitart Consulting. At CocoaBits we have a passion for OS X and Cocoa!
- KeyBindingsEditor is a GUI-based editor for OS X key bindings.

BWToolkit is an Interface Builder plugin that contains commonly used UI elements and other objects designed to simplify Mac development

"SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like Desktop applications. Learn how to combine SproutCore with HTML5's standard offline data storage technologies to deliver a first-class user experience and exceptional performance in your web application."

A set of open source tools that complement Xcode and Interface Builder.
Interactive introspection, manipulation and scripting of Cocoa objects.
"cocoa developer's best friend"

Xcode is the complete toolset for building Mac OS X and iOS applications - and with Xcode 4, the tools have been redesigned to be faster, easier to use, and more helpful than ever before. The Xcode IDE understands your project’s every detail, identifies mistakes in both syntax and logic, and will even fix your code for you. Quite simply, Xcode 4 will help you write better code.

The ODB Editor Suite is "an Apple Event-based interface that developers may take advantage of in order to provide better integration between their products and BBEdit". The classes included here make it easy to do just that. You can send strings to BBEdit through these classes, and in turn BBEdit will let you know when they have been updated or changed.

OpenMeta is an OS X standard for adding tags, ratings, and other metadata to files.

RBSplitView is a replacement for Cocoa's NSSplitView. There are some serious limitations with NSSplitView if you need to limit subview's sizes, expand or collapse subviews programmatically or by double-clicking, or resize the split view frequently.

RBSplitView has special content views - RBSplitSubviews - that handle details of subview limitations and properties. So there's less or no work to be done by the delegate. RBSplitView also has built-in support for nesting any number of levels, and automatically generates a two-axis thumb to resize in two dimensions.

This latest release of RBSplitView is compatible with Leopard and Snow Leopard, runs on 32-bit or 64-bit, and supports optional garbage-collection.

The Columbia, Maryland CocoaHeads group meets, 7pm - 9pm every second Tuesday of the month. We gather at Nemetschek North America, Inc. in Columbia, MD.

CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X (including the iPhone). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.

This is a browser for the reference document of Cocoa API. You need to install Apple's developer tools.

AppKiDo is an API documentation browser for Cocoa and iPhone programmers. It helps you quickly find the doc you want, whether it's for a class, protocol, function, type, or constant. AppKiDo parses the headers and HTML doc files that were installed with your Developer Tools. It presents the results in a form that is easy to navigate.

AppKiDo-for-iPhone is just like AppKiDo (and is built from the same code base), but for iPhone developers.

ParseKit is a Mac OS X Framework written by Todd Ditchendorf in Objective-C 2.0 and released under the MIT Open Source License. ParseKit is suitable for use on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard or iPhone OS. ParseKit is an Objective-C implementation of the tools described in "Building Parsers with Java" by Steven John Metsker. ParseKit includes additional features beyond the designs from the book and also some changes to match common Cocoa/Objective-C conventions. These changes are relatively superficial, however, and Metsker's book is the best documentation available for ParseKit.

Turn your favorite websites into Mac desktop applications.

MacRuby is Apple’s implementation of the Ruby programming Language. More precisely, it is a Ruby implementation that uses the well known and proven Objective-C runtime giving you direct native access to all the OS X libraries. The end result is a first-class, compilable scripting language designed to develop applications for the OS X platform.

the RubyCocoa project, a bridge between the Ruby and the Objective-C languages, allowing you to manipulate Objective-C objects from Ruby, and vice-versa. It lets you write full-stack Cocoa applications in Ruby. It is also possible to write a Cocoa application that mixes Ruby and Objective-C code.

MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks. It is the goal of MacRuby to enable the creation of full-fledged Mac

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The logic of how things work in Cocoa is quite different from most other OO toolkits, especially when it comes to graphics. Here I will give a comparison to how one does some basic graphics operations in Cocoa as opposed to Qt

The QMacCocoaViewContainer class provides a widget for Mac OS X that can be used to wrap arbitrary Cocoa views (i.e., NSView subclasses) and insert them into Qt hierarchies.

While Qt offers a lot of classes for writing your application, Apple's Cocoa framework offers lots of functionality that is not currently in Qt or may never end up in Qt. Using QMacCocoaViewContainer, it is possible to put an arbitrary NSView-derived class from Cocoa and put it in a Qt hierarchy. Depending on how comfortable you are with using objective-C, you can use QMacCocoaViewContainer directly, or subclass it to wrap further functionality of the underlying NSView.

TextMate Plug-in: ProjectPlus
Ciarán now working for micromate on textmate 2.0

Since 2001 Cocoa Dev Central has been one of the most popular sites devoted to Mac OS X programming

Build solid applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch, regardless of whether you have basic programming skills or years of programming experience. Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running shows you how to use Apple's Cocoa framework and its Objective-C language through step-by-step tutorials, hands-on tasks, clear examples, and sound advice from a Cocoa expert

The Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks that power Mac OS X and iPhone OS are tightly integrated into the Xcode development experience. Cocoa’s high-level APIs make is easy to add animation, networking, and the native platform appearance and behavior to your application with only a few lines of code.

Theocacao is written by me, Scott Stevenson. I was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, though I lived the first three years of my life in London. I now live in Sunnyvale, California.

I run Cocoa Dev Central and Cocoa Blogs, which help programmers learn how to write software for the Mac.

I own a tiny company called Tree House Ideas, which published the DataCrux framework. DataCrux provided a high-level interface to SQLite, and was used to create several Mac apps, including MemoryMiner, LogTen, and Mindburn.

I created the MacNN logo and basic corporate identity, which features the yellow and white text on blue, the zoom tool icon, and the tagline "Read Me First."

I co-founded a web development company called Maxify in 1996. We did work for a bunch of Bay Area companies, and created AltaVista's first company-wide intranet. I was interviewed in 1999 for my work at Maxify during an hour-long CNN special on Silicon Valley.

For better or worse, I don't have formal training for any of this.

I’m a developer on Apple’s AppKit team; I work to make Cocoa better. With a few exceptions, we are responsible for both AppKit and Foundation. This is my blog.

You can contact me at corydoras@ridiculousfish.com

Rubicode is a collection of engineers focused on releasing Mac OS X applications, tools and source.

The group was started in March of 2001 as BLaCKSMITH, Inc. was shutting down. Several Blacksmith engineers wished to continue developing and releasing tools that had previously been associated with Blacksmith, namely Carl Lindberg's EOGenerator and DBEdit applications. Although current offerings are geared towards developers, end user applications are under development.

Rubicode engineers are available on a contract basis to assist you with your Mac OS X related software development, network engineering and system administration projects. For details please contact here.

The purpose of this project is to provide a Free Software version of the Cocoa/OpenStep APIs available on as many platforms as possible. GNUstep currently supports Unix (GNU/Linux and GNU/HURD, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin) and Windows.
GNUstep provides a robust implementation of the AppKit and Foundation libraries as well as the development tools available on Cocoa/OpenStep, including Gorm (the InterfaceBuilder) and ProjectCenter (ProjectBuilder/Xcode).

The Cocotron is an open source project which aims to implement a cross-platform Objective-C API similar to that described by Apple Inc.'s Cocoa documentation. This includes the AppKit, Foundation, Objective-C runtime and support APIs such as CoreGraphics and CoreFoundation.

A user interface control to record key combinations. For Mac OS X, uses Cocoa.

Shortcut Recorder is a free Cocoa control for easily capturing key combinations. It comes with an Interface Builder palette, it is customizable and resolution-independent, and it's already being used in applications. Thanks to its BSD license, you can use it too, and adapt it if you need to.

Text System Overview provides a survey of the Cocoa text system. The articles introduce important features and describe aspects of the text system as a whole.

This is a simple sinewave oscillator controlled by GUI sliders. Thanks to Cocoa it takes very few lines of code.

This program shows how to get audio out of OS X in as few lines as possible, it is not a "how to do everything you ever wanted to do with CoreAudio" demo.

Cocoa Fundamentals Guide eases the initial steps to Cocoa proficiency. It provides an orientation to the technological landscape that is Cocoa. It introduces its features, basic concepts, terminology, architectures, and underlying design patterns.

smultron no longer being developed