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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
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Showing the Window

At this point, it would be great to run the application and see your objects unarchived and put on screen. However, if you run RandomPassword, all you will see is a disappointingly empty window (Figure 1.17).

Give it a try. Use the keyboard shortcut Command-R to build and run the app.

Figure 1.17  Empty window with the wrong title

Empty window with the wrong title

Not only is the window empty, it also has the wrong title. This is not your window. It is a window that the template created for the AppDelegate controller to control. To understand why this is the window you are seeing, let’s look at the app’s structure, diagrammed in Figure 1.18 ...

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