On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:09 PM, I. Savant wrote:

Does anyone know where this is documented, so I can
see exactly which events get forwarded to the document and under which
circumstances?

 No, nobody's discovered how this works yet. It's a deep,
impenetrable mystery, a black art the depths of which not even Apple
fully grasps. Of course I'm kidding. :-)

 The Cocoa Fundamentals guide is your best friend:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CocoaFundamentals/CommunicatingWithObjects/chapter_6_section_5.html#

 There's also this (see the very last paragraph):

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/EventArchitecture/chapter_2_section_6.html#

Thank you very much for the pointers.

 You may not like the bluntness of this, but it's meant to be helpful
*and* realistic: You're trying to run before you can walk.  Your best
bet is to take a detour from the advanced technologies (Core Data,
Cocoa Bindings, etc.) and make sure you've mastered the basics (or at
least the organization of the documentation).

I'm not sure how you assume that from this single question. I do already understand Cocoa's binding system pretty well, especially since it's quite similar to what Smalltalk has had for many years, and Java's bindings framework as well. I've got about 15 years of professional development experience, including a bit of database programming, using various ORM systems, various GUI frameworks in C++, Java, Smalltalk, etc, so none of the Cocoa technologies seem particularly novel or hard to understand. I just find the organization of Apple's documentation especially unintuitive compared to other libraries and frameworks I've used. Often important information about a class is buried somewhere in some related guide rather than in the class's documentation itself, so I don't know about it until I happen to stumble across the information while learning about something else.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, and thanks again for your pointers.
Adam

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