Hi Ray,
you want to connect an Ui element that you defined in Interface Builder to your
code, right? You may try to add the following line of code to your
ViewController.h file:
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *button;
where button is the name of your UIButton element. Depending on how you defined
button in IB, there could be some variation in this line. So it might be a bit
tricky to establish the connection by hand.I am not sure, wether there is a
documentation about this mixed approach, since normally the developer would use
the drag and drop method to do it.
As already mentioned, I do completely skip IB and write all neccessary things
directly in code. For this button example, I would declare it in
ViewController.h like this:
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIButton *button;
In ViewController.m I would declare a method for the button action:
- (void) buttonAction:(id)sender {
// some interesting code here
}
Finally, one would create the button element either in the loadView: or
viewDidLoad: method in ViewController.m:
// initialized the button:
self.button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeSystem];
// define the action method:
[self.button addTarget:self target:@selector(buttonAction:)
forControlEvent:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
// set a button dimension:
self.button.frame = CGRectMake(10, 10, 88, 44);
// set a button title:
[self.button setTitle:@"Button 1" forControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
// add the button to your view hierarchy:
[self.view addSubview:self.button];
You may take a look at the references of
* UIViewController
* UIview
* UIControl
* UIButton
and some others on the iOS developer library for more details. Once you got the
hang of it, you are much faster than clicking around in IB and Apple's
documentation will provide you all information you need. Regrettably, most of
the introduction documents on the Apple Developer Portal rely on Interface
Builder, since this would be the preferred method for a sighted developer. So
far, I haven't found a really nice introduction for a VO user. If there is
someone out there knowing about, please let me know. There are some books
around for this purpose. I can recommend the iPhone cook book of Erica Sadun,
which is available on iBooks. However, it will cost a bit of money.
I hope this will help you a bit.
Greetings
Jan
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Am 09.10.2013 um 20:39 schrieb Ray Campbell <[email protected]>:
> Thanks, Jan. i really like working with xcode. Where can I find some
> documentation on how to connect controls to references in code
> programatically?
>
>
> Ray Campbell
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, "Jan Blüher, visorApps"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Travis and list,
>>
>> I do use Xcode with VO for iOS development every day and really like it. 95%
>> or something like that can be done without sighted assistence. The remaining
>> 5% have do do with the very correct arrangement of images on the screen.
>>
>> Although Interface Builder is quite accessible, I do not use it a lot, since
>> I am faster with the programmatic approach. There might be other issues in
>> Mac development that I am not aware of, but I cannot imagine them.
>>
>> I really do encourage all people to use Xcode. It is quite hard work at the
>> beginning, since it is a complex tool. However, once you got used to it, it
>> is really fun.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Jan
>>
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>> visorApps - Accessible apps for iPad & iPhone
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>> D-01187 Dresden
>> Germany
>>
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