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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 – parsing the XML Document


Once our program has retrieved the raw XML file, we need to examine it and extract the information of interest. This is called parsing the file.

  1. In Xcode, click on the file named BTSAppDelegate.h in the project navigator and add the following defines that will be used to extract information from the XML file after it is downloaded:

    /* 
        Global Currency defines
     */
    
    // The European Central Bank exchange rate XML File
    #define D_ECB_RATES_URL @"http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml"
    
    // The path to the last update time in the XML tree
    #define D_XML_PATH_TIME @"/gesmes:Envelope/Cube/Cube"
    
    // The path to the exchange rates in the XML tree
    #define D_XML_PATH_RATES @"/gesmes:Envelope/Cube/Cube/Cube"
    
    // The popup menu title
    #define D_SELECT_CURRENCY @"Select Currency"
    
     // The keys for the XML attributes
    #define kTimeKey @"time"
    #define kCurrencyKey @"currency"
    #define kRateKey @"rate"
  2. Add the Member variables to BTSAppDelegate.h. These...