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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 – implementing the TableView delegate


In order for our table view to display values, we need to implement something called a delegate. As its name implies, a delegate performs a task on behalf of another object. In this case our table view delegate will handle any clicks on our table and will implement the methods that return the information that will be displayed in the table's rows and columns.

  1. Add the member variable to BTSAppDelegate.h as follows:

    // 
    // Define the Member elements
    //
    
    @property (strong)  NSMutableArray *m_numbersArray;
  2. Add the member variable to BTSAppDelegate.m as follows:

    //
    // Define the Member elements
    //
    
    @synthesize m_numbersArray;
  3. From the File menu, select New, then select New File… and create a new class named BTS_NCTableViewDelegate that will be used to manage the table views.

  4. Select the MainMenu.xib file and create a new object from the Object Library.

  5. Change the name of the new object to BTS_NCTableViewDelegate.

  6. Change the class of the new object...