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I just learned about NSNotificationCenter. Any class in a program can send a notification message to the notification center, and all classes can listen to the center and respond to messages that apply to it. It’s kind of like a callback, but really not.

This is part of my code for implementing a custom keyboard in my iPhone app.

To send a notification named “keyboardDone” to all objects in your program.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName: @"keyboardDone" object: nil];

To listen for the “keyboardDone” notification and call the “keyboardDoneObserver:” method when it’s received this can be added to your class’ init code.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: self selector: @selector(keyboardDoneObserver:) name: @"keyboardDone" object: nil];

And this is the “keyboardDoneObserver:” method that gets called when notified.

-(void)keyboardDoneObserver: (NSNotification*)notification {
     // do work here
}