[jjardim]

I've been trying to understand the GUI of Xcode, and Interface builder along w/ learning C. I've made good progress learning, things are clicking here and there but I don't understand the standard methods for a class.

Example
I have added an NSTextView object to my .nib file, then added an NSTextField as well. I also added 2 push buttons (NSButton) and linked them up to display text when clicking on the button. But it to display text I could not use the same method.

On the NSTextView I had to use [textView setString: @"Hello World"];
On the NSTextField I had to use ..
[words setStringValue:@"Hello, World"];
[words setNeedsDisplay:YES];

How can I find out with out searching the internet how to accomplish stuff like this. From working with Visual Basic, I would just type txtField. (and after I typed . it would bring up a list and I would chose settext=) so it showed me all the associated methods with the txtField class. Is there a way for me to find this info out in Xcode?

Thanks!
Jason

just for reference here are my files
.h
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>


@interface AppController : NSObject {
IBOutlet id textView;

IBOutlet NSTextField *words;
}


- (IBAction) clearText: sender;
- (IBAction) sayHello: (id)sender;

@end


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.m
#import "AppController.h"

@implementation AppController

- (IBAction) clearText: sender
{
[textView setString: @"Jason Sucks "];
}

- (IBAction)sayHelloid)sender{
[words setStringValue:@"Hello, World"];
[words setNeedsDisplay:YES];
}

@end

[Warren Pease]

Have you hooked up your IBOutlet and IBAction connections in Interface Builder yet?

Might want to run through the basic currency converter tutorial to get an idea how to accomplish this. It's a good idea that you learn how to do this before delving any further into your project.

[Chuckit]

Xcode includes full documentation for all of Cocoa and most other system frameworks. You can also get autocomplete (in Xcode or any other Cocoa app, actually) by pressing F5.