NSCollectionView Tutorial for Dummies (Xcode 3.1.3)

Note: I wrote this tutorial since I believe that there are way too few resources on the net covering this topic and I would have been wasting way less time if I had found something like this. Please keep in mind that I’m a ObjC-beginner myself.

Introduction

This tutorial is written in a way that it doesn’t require much knowledge of cocoa/objective-c, but since I’m not explaining most of the code, programming experiences will be helpful to understand what you are doing.

The following things will be covered by this tutorial:

• designing a user interface with buttons and a NSCollectionView
• designing a Subview which should be displayed in the CollectionView
• feeding the CollectionView using an ArrayController
• making the items in the CollectionView selectable

This is what the final application at the end of the tutorial will look like: