Some Cocoa Questions

ast3r3xast3r3x
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in macOS edited January 2014
1st...can you have applications communicate over the internet and LAN's with just cocoa?



2nd...Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is the book i'm getting to learn...after i read this and get a hold of cocoa, what would you suggest for me next (anyone who has read this, does this contain any networking info?)



3rd...for the sake of this being appleinsider...there's no step 3!

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    cocoa does have a socket class (NSSocketPort i think) which is basically just a loose cover over bsd sockets, iirc. if u are familiar with programming bsd sockets in c, then it should be pretty easy to transfer. if you aren't, dont worry, cuz net'ing aint so hard. i'll give a ltitle explanation. sockets are bsd's way of handling networking (sockets are also used on linux and other *nixes, and a similar system is used in windows' "winsocks"). basically they act a lot like regular files, so you can read and write to them very similarly to how you would write to regular files (in c); once you have an open connection of course. and NSSocketPort can take care of opening a connection pretty easily for ya.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    thanks, i am very interested in LAN and internet related programs so i was hoping this would work well





    can anyone possibly suggest an internet site (or hopefully a book) about more network related, because i don't believe this book has very much about it in there
  • Reply 3 of 5
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    i know apple likes a standard interface, but if i would want to make my own, how easy is that to do?
  • Reply 4 of 5
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by AirSluf

    Dude, how quickly you forget



    We went over this once before--Java Network Programming--an O'Reilly book. Don't get hung up on the "Java" in the name, you can make the programming leaps easily enough. The basic networking concepts are there.



    ahh ok, no i rememberd but i thought i was under the impression i'd be using java to network my apps completely and have to learn all of java





    i'll check out that book
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