Deep Reading

I am really being diligent about the components I am studying in this chapter. There is really a lot to know but once you get comfortable with it, it is not that crazy. What I am trying to do is understand better how the parts go together. There are a lot of parts but when you study it over and over, you realize there is no magic. Just a lot of things that have to be connected. The key is figuring out what needs to be connected. For example, to get a plist into the picker you have to:

1). create a plist
2). move it into your resource folder
3). set up a mainlist bundle
4). tie the bundle to the url of the picklist that you moved into your resource folder
5). get the contents of the plist into a dictionary
6). get the contents of the dictionary into your class's dictionary
7). get the key from the class dictionary into the pickers 1st component
8). get the first array of the first key record into your second component

I may have missed something but I am sure you get my drift. I am very curious how this was first discovered and if anyone new to this (like me) could do this without the help of anything. That is a person I would like to hire!

In any event, I am being very deliberate with this chapter as I can see its application. Unlike the stuff in the Objective-C book, which, for the most part, writes to NSLog, this chapter is chock full of applied stuff. I can certainly see myself doing a picker down the line and I can certainly see myself referring to this book as well.