RealBasic allows users to design fast, full-fledged applications. Simply put, it is Visual Basic on the Mac. This book documents essential concepts and takes the reader from zero knowledge of programming to the ability to program every aspect of RealBasic.
Devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting Userland Frontier, a powerful scripting environment for Web site management and system level scripting, this text provides examples, advice, tricks, and tips.
The book covers AppleScript 1.9.2 and the new Script Editor, released as part of the new version of Mac OS X Panther.
Start building apps for iOS 9 with Apple’s Swift programming language. If you’re grounded in the basics of Xcode and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and use iOS frameworks for adding features such as audio and video, access to user calendars and photos, and tracking the device’s location. Create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views that respond to touch Use view controllers to manage multiple screens in a way that’s understandable to users Explore UIKit interface objects, such as scroll views, table views, popovers, web views, and maps Work with Cocoa frameworks for sensors, location, sound, and video Access user libraries: music, photos, address book, and calendar Examine additional topics including data storage, file sharing, networking, and threading