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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Robert Wiebe
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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wiebe

Overview of this book

It's never been more important to have the ability to develop an App for Mac OS X. Whether it's a System Preference, a business app that accesses information in the Cloud, or an application that uses multi-touch or uses a camera, you will have a solid foundation in app development to get the job done.Mac Application Development by Example takes you through all the aspects of using the Xcode development tool to produce complete working apps that cover a broad range of topics. This comprehensive book on developing applications covers everything a beginner needs to know and demonstrates the concepts using examples that take advantage of some of the most interesting hardware and software features available.You will discover the fundamental aspects of OS X development while investigating innovative platform features to create a final product which take advantage of the unique aspects of OS X.Learn how to use Xcode tools to create and share Mac OS X apps. Explore numerous OS X features including iCloud, multi-touch trackpad, and the iSight camera.This book provides you with an illustrated and annotated guide to bring your idea to life using fundamental concepts that work on Mac.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mac Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – writing the myButtonAction: program code


We previously implemented this method as a stub that called NSBeep(). Now, we need to remove that call to the NSBeep() function and implement the final working program code as follows:

  1. Start by putting a comment in the NewDefaults.m file that describes the method in plain English as follows:

    /*
        Create the Preference Pane implementation for when 
        a checkbox is clicked this method is called with the
        sender equal to the check box that invoked it
     */
  2. The method needs to match the interface from the .h file. So now we can add the function body to the .m file as follows:

    - (IBAction)myButtonAction:(id)sender;
    {
    
    }
  3. Mac OS X 10.7 introduced a new feature called Sudden Termination. This feature is used to inform the Mac OS when it is safe to kill, rather than gracefully quit from our App (System Preferences is an App). Because we are about to enter a critical part of code, we are going to tell the Mac OS that it is not safe to kill...