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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 – index out of range


We can make a small change to the SimpleCalc program to demonstrate an index out of range that will cause our BuggyCalc App to misbehave, but will not automatically display the Debug area. For this type of error, we can create something called a breakpoint, which will force the Debug area to appear when the error occurs.

  1. In BuggyCalc, select the filename BTSAppDelegate.m and set the value of D_SHOW_DIVIDEBYZERO_BUG to 0.

  2. Add one line of code that uses the compiler directive #define to create a symbol named D_SHOW_INDEXOUTOFRANGE_BUG with a value of 1 as shown in the following code snippet:

    #define D_SHOW_DIVIDEBYZERO_BUG 0
    #define D_SHOW_INDEXOUTOFRANGE_BUG 1
  3. Locate the - (IBAction)myButtonAction:(id)a_sender method and add the following lines of code, to create an array of operators, in the method. These should be the first lines of code in the implementation:

        // Use an array to hold the valid operations
        NSArray *l_validOperations = [NSArray arrayWithObjects...