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iPhone SDK - Interface Builder Tutorial
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post Mar 27 2008, 11:03 PM
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This is just a quick jump-start to using Interface Builder with Cocoa Touch apps and Xcode. Since the documentation offers no explanation of how to do this, I thought this may be helpful.
  1. Create a new Cocoa Touch project in Xcode.
  2. You should be presented with the main window, you can ignore this for now. Open Interface Builder. The New Document window will open, select Window in the fourth tab.
  3. Now just add whatever you want from the library to your view. Save the view to the directory of your recently created Xcode project as "MainWindow", and it should ask if you if you wish to add it to the project. Check the box next to the app name you just created, and hit Add.
  4. Go back to Xcode, and open up <your_app_name>appDelegate.m. It should look like:
    CODE
    #import "SDK_IB_TestAppDelegate.h"
    #import "MyView.h"

    @implementation SDK_IB_TestAppDelegate

    @synthesize window;
    @synthesize contentView;

    - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    
        // Create window
        self.window = [[[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]] autorelease];
        
        // Set up content view
        self.contentView = [[[MyView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]] autorelease];
        [window addSubview:contentView];
        
        // Show window
        [window makeKeyAndVisible];
    }

    - (void)dealloc {
        [contentView release];
        [window release];
        [super dealloc];
    }

    @end

  5. We need to remove all the extra view code, and load our XIB. Edit the applicationDidFinishLaunching: method to look like this:
    CODE
    - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    
        // Create window
        self.window = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"MainWindow" owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];
        
        // Show window
        [window makeKeyAndVisible];
    }

  6. Build and Go. Your new iPhone App should be using the XIB you just made.

Hope this gets people started with Interface Builder.
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- stroke   iPhone SDK - Interface Builder Tutorial   Mar 27 2008, 11:03 PM
- - MasterofComputers   QUOTE (stroke @ Mar 27 2008, 07:03 PM) Th...   Mar 27 2008, 11:39 PM
- - C.J.   Not too difficult. Just takes little away from the...   Mar 28 2008, 04:54 AM
- - mmk   I'm trying a simple example - I just put up a ...   Mar 28 2008, 08:41 AM
- - geez   Brilliant little jump-start tutorial - one for the...   Mar 28 2008, 11:56 AM
- - DaveGee   QUOTE (stroke @ Mar 27 2008, 07:03 PM) Th...   Mar 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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- - mmk   OK I have made it work guys .. The problem was th...   Mar 29 2008, 05:06 AM
|- - maverick808   QUOTE (mmk @ Mar 29 2008, 06:06 AM) I hav...   Mar 29 2008, 01:13 PM
|- - DaveGee   QUOTE (maverick808 @ Mar 29 2008, 09:13 A...   Mar 29 2008, 01:31 PM
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|- - alpineedge3   QUOTE (mmk @ Mar 29 2008, 03:17 AM) Here ...   Mar 30 2008, 08:20 PM
|- - mmk   QUOTE (alpineedge3 @ Mar 31 2008, 04:20 A...   Mar 30 2008, 11:18 PM
|- - alpineedge3   QUOTE (mmk @ Mar 30 2008, 07:18 PM) In IB...   Mar 31 2008, 02:08 AM
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