"wait_fences: failed to receive reply: 10004003"?

Question

I get this cryptic error the first time (and only the first time) my view is loaded due to the following line of code:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [textField becomeFirstResponder];
}

There is a noticeable (~3 – 4 second, even on the simulator) delay due to this that makes my app feel unresponsive. Does anyone know how to fix this? I can't find any documentation on it on Apple's site, or any solutions here or on Google.

Strangely, the opposite situation happens if I put the line in -viewDidAppear: instead of -viewWillAppear:; that is, instead of printing the error only the first time the keyboard is shown and never again, the error is not printed the first time but every time after. This is causing a major headache for me.

Answer 1

See here for more info: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development-advanced-discussion/17373-wait%5Ffences-failed-receive-reply-10004003-a.html

Your problem is related.

Answer 2

Is the Text Field contained within that view, or within something else? You can only send the 'becomeFirstRepsonder' to something that is contained directly within that view. If it's stored in some other widget component, you shouldn't set the first responder status in this widget, but rather in the widget that's being created. For example, if you're adding the text field to an alert view, because the show happens asynchronously, it might not be up by the time you call the becomeFirstResponder. (Ideally, you'd have your own alert view class and define the text field within that, and when that view receives the viewDidAppear, you'd set the textfield as first responder at that point.)

Answer 3

Override -viewDidAppear:, not -viewWillAppear, and make sure to call [super viewDidAppear:]. You should not perform animations when you are not on screen ("will appear"). And the -viewDidAppear: docs explain that you must call super because they have their own things to do.

Answer 4

I was getting a similar error when quickly:

1. Dismissing a modal view
2. Updating the main view
3. Presenting a new modal view

I noticed I was only getting it in the simulator and not on the device. Additionally, I was getting caught in an infinite loop.

My solution was to delay the presenting of the new modal view. It seems that quickly updating the view hierarchy caused some sot of race condition in Apple's code.

With that in mind, try this:

     - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{

            [super viewDidAppear:animated];
            [textField performSelector:@selector(becomeFirstResponder) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];
  }

You may be having issues presenting the keyboard for a UITextField that ins't yet on screen. This may be causing problems similar to mine.

Also, you pause giving the hierarchy time to update before presenting the keyboard, just in case.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

overide viewDidappear not viewWillAppear:

-(void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL) animated { [super viewDidAppear:animated]; [myTextField becomeFirstResponder]; }

Answer 6

you have done [textfield becomeFirstResponder];

and after you get the value from textfield in your code make [textfield resignFirstResponder]; that will help you i think

Answer 7

If you're running the current iPhone Simulator 4.0, this error message appears frequently when rotating the screen (or when animating after rotating the screen) accompanied by 1-2 second lag in the animations.

It is a bug in this version of the Simulator and should be fixed soon.

Answer 8

After trying everything I could find on Google and none of it working, this is what solved the problem for me. The key is that I'm doing this stuff in the willDismissWithButtonIndex delegate method. Before I was doing it elsewhere.

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView willDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
    [myTextField resignFirstResponder];
    [myTextField removeFromSuperview];  
    [myTextField release];  
}