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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 – refining text colors


The next part of the interface that we want to change is the color of the text for the checkbox. While the text looks fine in a standard window, it is difficult to read black text on the black background of a HUD window. While the NSButton object does not contain its own method for setting text color, we can use what we have learned about Categories to create our own method.

  1. The first thing that we need to do is create a new file using the Objective-C category template. We will call our category TextColor and it will be a category on NSButton. Do that now. The result should be that two new files, named NSButton+TextColor.h and NSButton+TextColor.m, will be created and displayed in the project navigator.

  2. In the file named NSButton+TextColor.h, add the following program code to declare the interface method that can be invoked on an NSButton to set its text color.

    @interface NSButton (TextColor)
    
    // The method to set the text color
    - (void)setTextColor:(NSColor...