Building a Setup Assistant
Building a Setup Assistant
- Subject: Building a Setup Assistant
- From: Christopher Keath <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:15:50 -0700
For the life of me, I just don't know where to begin on this
seemingly simple project, which is basically my first Xcode project.
Quite specifically, I can't seem to figure out how to setup the
'Next' button that would step you thru each stage of the process.
All I want to do is collect some text based info that I will write
out to a plist. But this process will involve about 10 windows that
ask various questions, and later windows will need access to info
entered in earlier windows. KInd of like the registration apps that
launch after an application installs.
I have read through Cocoa with Objective C (the O'Reilly book) but
there is nothing about having non-document based apps with more then
1 window. I have looked thru the examples as well, but none seem to
follow this format.
I'm especially having trouble with the fact that I am using XCode 3,
and it looks nothing like the examples in the book - for the life of
me I can't figure out where the Classes Menu went, and I can't find
the Instantiate command that will make the header files and so forth
in Xcode based on what I do in IB.
So anyway -
Do I want to try and do this with only 1 window object, and have
each stage simply load a new view? Or do I want a new nib for each
step?
In either case, I have no idea where to begin. I can add my initial
text box that will hold my Welcome message, and I can add the 'Next'
button, all to the Window, but have no idea where to go from
there.... Do I need some kind of custom class for this? Where do I
overwrite the default latin text that is in my box? Can window have
multiple views that are mutually exclusive? or do I need to load a
new nib for each window? How do you load a new nib? How do you take
the old one off?
Should I be trying to use core data for this? I messed with that for
a while but for the life of me could not figure out how to attach
the data objects I made in the Core Data part of XCode to fields in
IB.
I can do the table view stuff from the book too, to get and write
the data I want for each window, but structurally, I'm not sure how
to setup a series of windows that would all have access to that
data, or even how to load the next window.
I know it's a very basic question, but I would really appreciate the
help.
THANKS!
Chris
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