Hi Jan, Ray; Great to see this topic making its way onto this list. I'm also an XCode Developer though not a prolific one. Jan I'm most interested to see how you do this programmatically. I've been looking for resources for a long time. I've found some for older versions of IOS which, with some adaptation work well. Afraid I can't find those links now though. Jan I don't suppose we could tempt you to write up a simple step-by-step to get a button, with a label and an action into a project programmatically?
Cheers, Dónal On 10 Oct 2013, at 08:22, "Jan Blüher, visorApps" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --- > MouseKick - The mice are coming! > Download on the App Store: > http://AppStore.com/MouseKick > --- > Dr. Jan Blüher > visorApps - Accessible apps for iPad & iPhone > Bayreuther Str. 2 > D-01187 Dresden > Germany > > phone: +49 (0) 351 16053907 > mobile: +49 (0) 176 34926242 > e-mail: [email protected] > web: http://visorApps.com > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#visorApps > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VisorApps > > tax number: DE281706766 > > > > 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 >>> >>> --- >>> MouseKick - The mice are coming! >>> Download on the App Store: >>> http://AppStore.com/MouseKick >>> --- >>> Dr. Jan Blüher >>> visorApps - Accessible apps for iPad & iPhone >>> Bayreuther Str. 2 >>> D-01187 Dresden >>> Germany >>> >>> phone: +49 (0) 351 16053907 >>> mobile: +49 (0) 176 34926242 >>> e-mail: [email protected] >>> web: http://visorApps.com >>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#visorApps >>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VisorApps >>> >>> tax number: DE281706766 >>> >>> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that >> the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >> worm-free. 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