Status bar using NSview

Question

Iam starting off on my first project using cocoa and was hoping you could give me some advice. What I want to achieve is quite simple. All I want is a simple message box may be using NSView that will display messages. The messages are simply text stored in may be array or queue. Lets assume there are 5 text messages in queue "Hi", "Hello", "What", 'How", "Where". I would want my view to display "Hello" first and provide two navigators using "< >" on either side of the message box. When the user clicks ">" I display "What" and when your clicks "<" I display "Hi". Can someone give me pointers to help achieve this? Also any sample code for the same would be helpful. Thanks.

Regards, Chands

Answer 1

make array with that 5 strings . take one label do not forget to connect it(IBOutlet not IBAction). then take 2 buttons one for increment and one for decrement connect them too in interface builder(IBAction method not IBOutlet). now you have 2 methods for next button and previous button. in next button method increment objectAtIndex of array by 1 and in previous button method decrease ObjectAtindex by 1. show the current index on label

Note: put if condition in increment like if its not exceeding [array count] and in decrement it should not exceed 0

you can make custom button like this

    UIButton *Button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];  

perform method like this on button

     [Button addTarget:self action:@selector(YourMethod) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

then add this button to your view [YourViewName addSubview:Button]; yes you need to set frame where you want to put this button in view