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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 methods for browsing our Pictures folder


Now that we have defined the interface and some stub methods for browsing our Pictures folder, we can continue to complete the implementation by coding the methods required to implement the desired behavior.

  1. When a BTSImage object is created, it must be initialized with an NSURL. We accomplish this by implementing the method named initWithURL: using the following program code, which simply assigns the NSURL passed to the method to the instance variable.

    // Assign an NSURL to the BTSImage
    // and return the BTSImage object
    - (id)initWithURL:(NSURL *)a_URL
    {
        self = [super init];
        if (self) 
        {
            // Initialization code here.
            m_URL = a_URL;
        }
        
        return self;
    }
  2. The IKImageBrowserView object dataSource protocol will invoke a method on our object to determine how we have selected to represent the image. Because we are using an NSURL to represent our images, we can simply return the constant...