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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 – creating a GUI with a custom view


By now we should be familiar with creating new Xcode projects so some of the steps here are very high level. We can look back at the earlier chapters for help if we cannot remember some of the details of each high-level step. Let's get started!

  1. Create a new Xcode project with Automatic Reference Counting enabled and these options enabled as follows:

    Option

    Value

    Product Name

    Multi-Finger Paint

    Company Identifier

    com.yourdomain

    Class Prefix

    Your initials (For consistency throughout this book, we used BTS)

  2. After Xcode creates the new project, design an icon and drag it in to the App Icon field on the TARGET Summary.

  3. Remember to set the Organization in the Project Document section of the File inspector.

  4. Click on the filename MainMenu.xib in the project navigator.

  5. Select the Multi-Finger Paint window and in the Size inspector change its Width and Height to 700 and 600 respectively.

  6. Enable both the Minimum Size and Maximum Size Constraints...