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Errata for Cocoa Programming for OS X, 5th Edition

If you encounter issues in the book, please post them to the forum for the appropriate chapter at forums.bignerdranch.com. Thank you!

2. Swift Types

  • countingUp should be defined as a variable (and not a constant) in the section Literals and Subscripting: var countingUp = .... This is necessary because it is later mutated when calling countingUp.append("three") in the Instance methods section.

3. Structures and Classes

  • In the section "Reference and Value Types", ball0.particle.x = 1 should be ball0.position.x = 1.

6. Delegation

  • The speechSynthesizer(_:didFinishSpeaking:) method is correctly implemented to set isStarted = false. However, later in the chapter the same method is incorrectly shown to call updateButtons() instead.
  • In the section "Common errors in implementing a delegate", the description of buggy behavior upon misspelling speechSynthesizer(_:didFinishSpeaking:) should state that the Start button will never be enabled (the Stop button remains enabled indefinitely). Additionally, the window can not be closed.

8. KVC, KVO, and Bindings

  • In the For the More Curious section on Dependent Keys, the class Person has two problems: First, as documented earlier in the chapter, a class must subclass NSObject to participate in KVO. Thus, Person should subclass NSObject. Second, the computed property fullName must have the explicit type String.

14. User Defaults

  • In the section Storing the User Defaults, the text says that "you will need to make the app delegate the delegate of the text field". As shown correctly in the code listing that follows, it is the main window controller that should be the delegate of the text field. Later, the text says to open MainMenu.xib. Instead, you should open MainWindowController.xib.

18. Mouse Events

  • In the section Improving Hit Detection, the pressed property is used to indicate whether the user actually clicked on the die. The mouseUp(_:) method (from the previous section entitled Click to Roll), however, does not check pressed before calling randomize(). As such the if expression in mouseUp(_:) should read: theEvent.clickCount == 2 && pressed.

25. Auto Layout

  • In the section on Ambiguous Layout, on page 375, the reader is instructed to add a call to visualizeConstraints(_:) at the end of applicationDidFinishLaunching(_:). The line above, shown for context, is a call to addConstraints(_:), but it should be NSLayoutConstraint.activateConstraints(verticalConstraints). addConstraints(_:) is the old way of doing this; it has been noted as deprecated in Apple's headers.

27. Printing

  • In EmployeesPrintingView, the init?(coder:) initializer calls assertionFailure(). This should be changed to fatalError(). The reason is that with optimization enabled, such as in a release build, the compiler leaves out assertions. The Swift compiler knows this and in order to ensure that an object is fully initialized, considers it an error. Calls to fatalError() are not ignored, however.

28. Web Services

  • In the code snippet demonstrating using NSXMLDocument the result of the calls to nodesForXPath(_:error:), is cast using as [NSXMLNode]. Because the type of this API presently returns [AnyObject]!, in the eyes of the Swift compiler this cast could fail. As such it must be cast using as!, like this: nodesForXPath(...) as! [NSXMLNode].

  • In ScheduleFetcher, the courseFromDictionary(_:) method instantiates an NSDateFormatter and assigns a var to reference it: var dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter(). The dateFormatter reference should never be changed to refer to a different object, so it should be a let instead: let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter().

  • In ScheduleFetcher, the same error code (1) is used twice. There should be a different error code for each type of error. The error code for the second error ("Bad status code") should have code 2: let error = self.errorWithCode(2, localizedDescription: "Bad status code \(response.statusCode)").

29. Unit Testing

  • In the section "Refactoring for Testing" where the contents of fetchCoursesUsingCompletionHandler(_:) is cut and pasted to resultFromData(_:response:error:), the line result = .Success([]) should read result = self.resultFromData(data). Cutting and pasting avoids this problem.