Foundation

The GNUstep base library (aka gnustep-base) contains a powerful set of non-graphical Objective-C classes that can readily be used in your programs. At present there are approximately 70 different classes available, including classes to handle strings and arrays, dates and times, distributed objects, URLs and file systems (to name but a few).

Features:

• Strings
• Collections (arrays, sets, dictionaries) and enumerators
• File management
• object archiving
• advanced calendar date manipulation
• Distributed Objects and inter-process communication
• URL handling
• Notifications (and distributed notifications)
• easy multi-threading
• Timers
• Locks
• Exception handling

Class and Protocol Reference

Class Reference

Protocol Reference

NSArchiver NSArray NSAssertionHandler NSAttributedString NSAutoreleasePool NSBundle NSCachedURLResponse NSCalendarDate NSCharacterSet NSClassDescription NSCoder NSComparisonPredicate NSCompoundPredicate NSConditionLock NSConnection NSCountedSet NSData NSDate NSDateFormatter NSDecimalNumber NSDecimalNumberHandler NSDeserializer NSDictionary NSDirectoryEnumerator NSDistantObject NSDistributedLock NSDistributedNotificationCenter NSEnumerator NSError NSException NSExpression NSFileHandle NSFileManager NSFormatter NSHTTPCookie NSHTTPCookieStorage NSHTTPURLResponse NSHost NSIndexPath NSIndexSet NSInputStream NSInvocation NSKeyedArchiver NSKeyedUnarchiver NSLock NSMessagePort NSMessagePortNameServer NSMethodSignature NSMutableArray NSMutableAttributedString NSMutableCharacterSet NSMutableData NSMutableDictionary NSMutableIndexSet NSMutableSet NSMutableString NSMutableURLRequest NSNotification NSNotificationCenter NSNotificationQueue NSNull NSNumber NSNumberFormatter NSObject NSOutputStream NSPipe NSPort NSPortCoder NSPortMessage NSPortNameServer NSPredicate NSProcessInfo NSPropertyListSerialization NSProtocolChecker NSProxy NSRecursiveLock NSRunLoop NSScanner NSSerializer NSSet NSSocketPort NSSocketPortNameServer NSSortDescriptor NSStream NSString NSTask NSThread NSTimeZone NSTimeZoneDetail NSTimer NSURL NSURLAuthenticationChallenge NSURLCache NSURLConnection NSURLCredential NSURLCredentialStorage NSURLDownload NSURLHandle NSURLProtectionSpace NSURLProtocol NSURLRequest NSURLResponse NSUnarchiver NSUndoManager NSUserDefaults NSValue NSXMLParser NXConstantString

NSCoding NSCopying NSDecimalNumberBehaviors NSLocking NSMutableCopying NSObjCTypeSerializationCallBack NSObject NSURLAuthenticationChallengeSender NSURLHandleClient NSURLProtocolClient