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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 Toolbar delegate


Similar to a table view, we need to implement a delegate for our toolbar. Again, as its name implies, the toolbar delegate will implement behaviors on behalf of the GUI object.

  1. From the File menu, select New, then select New File… and create a new class named BTS_NCToolbarDelegate that will be used to manage the table views.

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

  3. Change the name of the new object to BTS_NCToolbarDelegate.

  4. Change the class of the new object to BTS_NCToolbarDelegate.

  5. In the .xib file, connect the Toolbar object to the BTS_NCToolbarDelegate object and select delegate from the Outlets menu as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. In BTS_NCToolbarDelegate.h, add the following code to define the interface. It defines a single method that will be used to handle all the Toolbar Item objects.

    // Handle the Toolbar Item selection
    - (IBAction)selectToolbarItem:(id)a_sender;
  7. Connect the dataSource and delegate...