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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 - integer division by zero


We can make a small change to the SimpleCalc program to demonstrate an integer division by zero that results in the Debug area appearing while the program is running.

  1. Create a new Xcode project (we can follow the steps given in Chapter 1, Our First Program – SimpleCalc) but call it BuggyCalc instead of SimpleCalc. Other than the App name being BuggyCalc, all the steps are the same as was done for SimpleCalc.

    Tip

    The complete project for BuggyCalc is included in the downloadable content for this book so if you don't want to create BuggyCalc yourself, you can just download the project and open it in Xcode.

  2. In BuggyCalc, select the filename BTSAppDelegate.m and add the following line of code that uses the compiler directive #define to create a symbol named D_SHOW_DIVIDEBYZERO_BUG with a value of 1:

    #define D_SHOW_DIVIDEBYZERO_BUG 1

    Tip

    If you are using the pre-built project, locate the line of code that defines the symbol and change its value from 0 to...