User interface strings in Cocoa

Introduction (the wrong way)

Putting a text string in your user interface is not a difficult thing to do on a technical level. In code, filling in text can be as simple as setting the text property of a UILabel to a literal string:

 someUserInterfaceLabel.text = @"Text to display";

(This code is for an iOS UILabel. On Mac OS X, you would set the stringValue property of anNSTextField but otherwise the step is the same.)

While this will work, you should never set a user interface string this way.

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