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| 5 | <title>CurrencyConverter HOWTO</title>
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| 11 | <div class="title">
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| 12 | <h1>Building the User Interface on "Tiger"</h1>
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| 16 | <p>If you are using Mac OS X 10.4.x ("Tiger") to build your
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| 17 | application, then the Apple tutorial's section on building the
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| 18 | UI may be somewhat confusing. Apple's tutorial uses
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| 19 | InterfaceBuilder 3.x to show how to build an interface, and
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| 20 | there were many interface changes between versions 2.x and 3.x
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| 21 | of InterfaceBuilder. In this section we see how to build the UI
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| 22 | using InterfaceBuilder 2.x.</p>
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| 25 | <h2>Launch InterfaceBuilder</h2>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <p>Start by locating Apple's InterfaceBuilder application. If
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| 29 | you installed Apple's Developer Tools, InterfaceBuilder should
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| 30 | be in the folder "/Developer/Applications/":</p>
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| 35 | </div>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <p class= "note"><strong><em>NOTE:</em></strong> If you have not
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| 38 | installed Apple's Developer Tools, you should do that now. You
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| 39 | will not be able to build the CurrencyConverter example
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| 40 | without them. The Developer Tools are distributed as an
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| 41 | optional install with Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger"). Look for the
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| 42 | "XCode Tools" package in the "Optional Installs" folder on the
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| 43 | Mac OS 10.4 install disk.</p>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <p>Once you have located InterfaceBuilder, double-click to launch
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| 46 | the application. InterfaceBuilder presents a window you can use
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| 47 | to choose a template for the nibfile you are going to create.</p>
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| 48 |
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| 50 | <img src="../images/ibwin-tiger1.jpg"alt=""
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| 51 | border='0'/>
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| 52 | </div>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <p>Make sure the "Application" option is selected in the "Cocoa"
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| 55 | section and click the "New" button to create a new
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| 56 | nibfile. InterfaceBuilder creates a new application nibfile, but
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| 57 | doesn't immediately save it. The Objective C objects that
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| 58 | represent the new application's interface appear in a new
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| 59 | untitled window:</p>
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| 64 | </div>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <p>The intial window and menubar also appear on the screen. The
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| 67 | new application's name appears in the menus as
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| 68 | "NewApplication". Save the new nibfile into the
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| 69 | "currency-converter" folder that you created earlier
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| 70 | (on <a href="making_project.html">this page</a>).</p>
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