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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 – capturing and saving images


Once more, we will use a category to organize our program code. This time our category will be used for capturing and saving still images.

  1. In Xcode, click on the file named MainmMenu.xib in the project navigator and add a button with the name Take Picture.

  2. We are going to use another category to extend the behavior of our BTSWindowController object. From the File menu, select New, and then select the File… option.

  3. Select the Mac OS X Cocoa Objective-C category template and click on the Next button.

  4. For the Category, select Importer and for the Category on select BTSWindowController, then click on the Next button.

  5. Click the Create button.

  6. In the file named BTSWindowController+Importer.h, add the following program code to expose the interface to the takePicture: method:

    // The action method to capture an image
    - (IBAction) takePicture:(id) sender;
  7. In the Assistant editor, connect the Take Picture button to the takePicture: method by right-clicking on...