I’m a total newbie to programming in cocoa for the mac so this question is probably easy. I have a window, and on that window I have a Label.
I want to be able to update this label from my program with the current status or what’s going on (eg. reading in file, parsing, etc.). My problem is that I don’t know how to access the label and change it’s text property. I tried "MyWindowName." hoping I would be able to reference the label from the Window. I don’t even know what the labels name is, or even if it has a name.
How do I reference this label in my program to change it?
You probably need to go here and walk through some tutorials: http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/
A quick summary is that unlike other technologies, you don’t access the controls directly (or shouldn’t access them). Instead, you create outlets in a controller, which you then graphically connect to the controls and they update automagically. These tutorials will show you the way.