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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 – saving a compressed movie


We are going to add two new pop-up menus to our App that will allow the user to select the audio and video compression methods that will be used when a movie file output is connected to our capture session. We will also add a checkbox that is used to enable or disable the selected compression options.

  1. In the file named MainMenu.xib, select the iSight Recorder window.

  2. In the Size Inspector, change the Height to 400 and the Minimum Size Constraint Height to 400.

  3. Add a checkbox titled Compress and two pop-up buttons below the buttons titled Stop and Record. It should look similar to the following screenshot:

  4. In the file named BTSAppDelegate.h, add a new @property items of type NSButton* and name it m_compressButton.

  5. Add two more properties of type NSPopUpButton* and name them m_audioCompressionPopup and m_videoCompressionPopup.

  6. Use the Assistant editor to connect the newly defined properties from the .h file to the buttons in the .xib file.

  7. In the file named...