Hot Cocoa

UPDATE (Nov 11 – 12.53): The HD version’s good now.

UPDATE (Nov 11 – 07.52): Looks like the HD version of the tip didn’t finish uploading completely. I’m reuploading it now, should be up within a few minutes. In the meantime, the flash version on the blog and the SD version seem to be ok.

In this tip: How to create and set the icon for your application.

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In this weeks episode: We take our first look at writing a CoreData app and see how easy it is to write a fully-working database application without writing a single line of code. Download project files.

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In this weeks episode: We write our first program, a coin flipping simulator, and learn how to break off CPU-intensive tasks into separate threads. Download project files.

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Ever wanted to have a textview that didn’t automatically have text wrap to the next line? You’d think it just be a checkbox option in Interface Builder, but it isn’t. (Hint hint, Apple) Luckily though all you need to do to turn it off is cut and paste some code.

[[myTextView enclosingScrollView] setHasHorizontalScroller:TRUE];
[myTextView setHorizontallyResizable:TRUE];
NSSize layoutSize = [myTextView maxSize];
layoutSize.width = layoutSize.height;
[myTextView setMaxSize:layoutSize];
[[myTextView textContainer] setWidthTracksTextView:FALSE];
[[myTextView textContainer] setContainerSize:layoutSize];


Just cut and paste that code into your awakeFromNib method and replace myTextView with the outlet for your textview and voila, no more wordwrap!

In this weeks episode: We take a look at the history of Apple, and give you an introduction to Cocoa and Objective-C.

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Welcome to the first episode of the weekly programming tutorial podcast Hot Cocoa.

In this week’s episode: We give you the tour around Xcode and Interface builder, play with some buttons, and let you in on the secret that Apple doesn’t want you to know about its documentation.

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