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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 – implementing the interface for browsing our pictures folder


The Pictures folder is the default location for storing images. While the App user may want to store them elsewhere, Apple wants developers to stick with the Pictures folder and has provided standard ways to locate and access this folder.

Note

App Sandboxing, which is required if we want to put an App in the Mac OS X App store, requires us to use the standard methods of accessing the Pictures folder. It is very important to use these methods and not create an App that accesses the user's filesystem in a non-standard manner by trying to write to other folders.

To begin, we will implement the interface to the browser.

  1. In the project navigator, click on the file named MainMenu.xib.

  2. In the Object Library, locate the Scroll View and drag it into the window leaving half an inch at the bottom of the window as room for us to add some buttons later.

  3. In the Objects hierarchy, locate Scroll View and click on the disclosure triangle...