New to Xcode, need some help with something...

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  1. MartinAppleGuy, Jul 14, 2014

    MartinAppleGuy macrumors 68020

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    Hi there, I download Xcode last night and have started work on a basic web browser. I know quite a bit of Visual Basic but don't know any Obj C or Xcode. Here is what I have done:

    All of the work I have done is through the mainmenu.xib area. I have added a webview, and added a few buttons for back and forward that I have linked to the webview for back and forward (by right clinking the webview which brings up a grey box and then clicking and dragging from the correct circles to the buttons). I have also added the webkit framework. I have also added a textbox to act as a search box for the browser and it works as long as I type in the full url of a website. I have wrote no code.

    This is what I want to do:

    I wish for search box to only need the search query (ie what a user is searching) then search using Google (I'd like for it to work by pressing enter, or the "Go" button. How can I go about doing this (I'm sure I will have to make a string var, then add the google url string and the query together then making that search in the webview, but I don't know how to do that in Xcode).


    Thank you :)


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  2. Dookieman, Jul 14, 2014

    Dookieman macrumors 6502

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    You're correct that you need string variable to do what you want.

    You're going to need a couple of things. A string with the google address, and a string you'll build from the textbox.

    Something similar to this (I'm away from a Mac now and just doing thing from memory) is an IDEA on what you need to do. I can't test it since I'm not on my Mac.

    //Textbox String
    NSString *userSearch = [[NSString alloc] init];
    userSearch = myTextBox.text; <-The textbox that you placed in your storyboard


    //Google's URL
    NSString *googleURL = [[NSString alloc] init];

    //Something like this, i'm not sure exactly what google's search string looks like
    googleURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:mad:"http://www.google.com/query=%@", userSearch]; <- The "%@" is a placeholder for your userSearch string.

    Then you can use your webview to use "googleURL" when you need to provide it a URL.
     
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