Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac® and iOS in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Hour 12. Finding Your Way Around the Interface Builder Editor: The Code Story

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Working with connections

• Creating and connecting IBOutlets

• Creating and connecting IBActions

• Making connections programmatically

Using the Connections Inspector

The heart of the linking between the code in your app and the objects in your interface is the connections you draw in Xcode. (You also sometimes create them pro-grammatically, as you will see later in this hour.) Control-clicking an object in the document outline area or on the canvas brings up a list of connections, as shown in Figure 11.14 in Hour 11, “Finding Your Way Around the Interface Builder Editor: The Graphics Story,” p. 189. The Connections inspector lets ...