Changeset 7711

Timestamp:

Nov 22, 2007, 6:12:58 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

mikel

Message:

added instructions for adding custom classes

Location:

trunk/ccl/examples/cocoa/currency-converter/HOWTO_files

Files:

• images/ibwin-leopard3.jpg (added)
• images/ibwin-leopard4.jpg (added)
• pages/building_ui.html (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/ccl/examples/cocoa/currency-converter/HOWTO_files/pages/building_ui.html

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   Objective-C, and does not use XCode project files, so you can skip
   the part of the tutorial that explains how to use XCode.</p>
+
+<div class="section-head">
+  <h2>Using InterfaceBuilder to Create the UI</h2>
+</div>
 
       <p>We'll begin by using Apple's InterfaceBuilder application to
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   called <a href="http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCTutorial/05View/chapter_5_section_6.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000863-CH7-DontLinkElementID_39">What's Next</a>,
   you are done creating the interface for your
-application. Save your nibfile and continue with the next section of
-this HOWTO, on writing the Lisp code that provides the application's
-behavior.</p>
+application. Save your nibfile and continue with the next section.</p>
+
+<div class="section-head">
+  <h2>Adding Custom Classes to the nibfile</h2>
+</div>
+
+<p>The user interface for your application looks right, but before it
+  can work right, we have to record some more information  in the
+  nibfile about the classes of the objects. In the following sections
+  we'll see how to write the Lisp code that defines your
+  application's classes. Before we're done with InteraceBuilder we
+  need to put references to those classes in the nibfile, so that
+  your application will create the correct objects when it
+  launches.</p>
+
+<p>As you will see in the following sections, we'll be using Lisp code
+  to define two Objective C classes: Converter, and
+  ConverterController. The Converter class implements the method that
+  performs the actual currency conversion for our application; the
+  ConverterController class provides communication between the user
+  interface and the Converter object. We need a way to create instaces
+  of these two classes in the nibfile, so that launching the
+  application creates these instances and the connections between them
+  and the rest of the user interface.</p>
+
+<p>In InterfaceBuilder's Library window, select the Cocoa Objects and
+  Controllers view:</p>
+
+      <div class="inline-image">
+        <img src="../images/ibwin-leopard3.jpg"alt="" 
+             border='0'/>
+      </div>
+
+<p>Drag an Object from the Library window and drop it into the main
+  CurrencyConverter window:</p>
+
+      <div class="inline-image">
+        <img src="../images/ibwin-leopard4.jpg"alt="" 
+             border='0'/>
+      </div>
+
+<p>Now tell InterfaceBuilder the name of the new object's class. With
+  the Object icon selected in the main CurrencyConverter window,
+  choose the Identity tab of the Inspector:</p>
 
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