cocoa-touch

HTTPS with NSURLConnection - NSURLErrorServerCertificateUntrusted

I have an application that connects fine over http. When trying https I got the error that says that the root cert is not trusted. I found URLs for my site certificate, its CA certificate, and the CA's root certificate and have added them through Safari to the phone. Now when I go to Preferences -> General -> Profiles I can see all my...

Retaining state of a user variable in Cocoa

What is the proper way to define a user input variable so it maintains its value after control is returned to the user. I have a TextView where the user enter a description, and I want to clear the contents of the TextView but maintain what the user first entered. ...

How to use performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: on a method with multiple arguments

Let's say I have a method with this signature: -(void)plotPoly:(Polygon *)poly WithColor:(UIColor *)color AndFill:(BOOL)filled; How do I get that UIColor and BOOL in there as well as the Polygon? Should I wrap them in a NSArray and pull them out inside the called method? That would mean I have to change the method sig, right? Is th...

Cocoa and Cocoa Touch: is an object on the dictionary?

I thought it would be simpler to find if an object in on a dictionary, but it appears it is not. I have a NSMutableDictionary with just one key named "products". I have several products added to the dictionary dynamically, using something like [myDict addObject:@"banana" forKey:@"products"]; [myDict addObject:@"orange" forKey:@"produc...

Problem in Reloading UITableview..!

hi, i am parsing two xml files with one xml parser class , i have a table view where the data is displaying after parsing .. here is a imageview and label , when i parse the first xml like if i parse myxml_1.xml and then display data in a table view its fine . but when i parse again the xml named myxml_2.xml and display the data in that...

Synchronize Core Data with SQL or MySQL Via SQLite

I am trying to build an iPhone application using core data's built in table management. I want synchronize the data with an MSSQL or MySQL database. Core data is compatible with SQLite so I thought it might work as a bridge. Can anyone think of how one might achieve this functionality? ...

How do I append a new item to a plist?

In my iPhone app, I have two plist files to store "Themes". One is a read-only file containing default themes, and one contains custom Themes that the user has created. I'm using plist files because it's very easy for me to read from the plist and create new Theme objects. My plist is an array of dictionary objects. Is there any easy w...

How does UIView nextReponder know what the UIViewController is?

Just as a matter of curiosity, how does the nextResponder method implementation of the UIView class know who is the UIViewController that manages the view? The UIResponder documentation states this, and I can see it work, but I don't quite understand it. To the best of my knowledge, a UIView does not maintain a reference to it's controll...

How to get the list of all announced bonjour services on all available domains?

It's not the problem to look in all domains, but I can't find the right way to look for any service on the network. ...

Detecting UITableView scrolling

Hi I've subclassed UITableView (as KRTableView) and implemented the four touch-based methods (touchesBegan, touchesEnded, touchesMoved, and touchesCancelled) so that I can detect when a touch-based event is being handled on a UITableView. Essentially what I need to detect is when the UITableView is scrolling up or down. However, subcl...

Core Animation performance on iphone

I'm trying to do some animations using Core Animation on the iphone. I'm using CABasicAnimation on CALayer. It's a straight forward animation from a random place at the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen at random speed, I have 30 elements that doing the same animation continuously until another action happens. But the perform...

Converting audio and video to NSData

I would like to confirm what the recommended ways are to convert audio and video files into NSData objects. Is + dataWithContentsOfFile: the best way to do this? Thank you ...

Adding a UITabBarController to an UIViewController

Hi guys, I've got a sample application on http://github.com/niklassaers/Test-iPhone-TabBar-App that shows my problem: I have a regular view-based application, and at some point (in this case when I click a button) I want to load a tabbar controller and display it. I believe this is what I should be doing: MyTabBarController *tabs = [[M...

UIDatePicker and UITextView

Hi Sorry if i did wrong english typing I want to show a text in UITextView depend on the date, some thing like "in This Day App", I have this code in action -(void)changingText:(id)sender{ NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; df.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle; label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%...

Any examples of creating a dial?

I'd like to create a dial with similar behavior to some of the retro phone apps. These have a circular dialer that lets you spin it around with your finger. Any ideas how that is created or some links that discuss aspects of it? ...

How do I find out why file I/O operations fail?

Several methods I've used to write to files return a BOOL signifying their success, e.g. NSDictionary: - (BOOL) writeToFile:(NSString *)path atomically:(BOOL)flag NSKeyedArchiver: - (BOOL) archiveRootObject:(id)rootObject toFile:(NSString *)path Somehow, this returned NO on one of my tester's devices. That's great (well, not real...

Dynamically Changing Keyboard Type for a UISearchBar

I have an iPhone app that uses a UISearchBar and UISearchDisplayController. The search bar has three scope buttons. I would like the keyboard to be a numeric keypad when a particular scope button is selected, but be a default keyboard when any other scope button is selected. I have implemented the UISearchBarDelegate selectedScopeButt...

Action sheet not opaque

For some reason the top half of the my action sheet is not opaque. I have created the view and action sheet using the code below: //allocate the view self.view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]]; UIActionSheet *popupQuery = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:nil delegate:self ...

iPhone: Application Testing and Core Location

I'm trying to implement Application Tests as described here. So far, so good, but i fail to test, for instance, the location of the device using Core Location. I have added the appropriate Framework to the Target, and have initiated the update of location, but i have no clue of how to wait for the location to be loaded, the test suite ju...

Get Customer Information from an In App Purchase transaction on iPhone

Apple clearly states in their Introducing Store Kit video in the iPhone Dev Center that we should: "Keep a copy of the TransactionID along with the Customer Information in your server in the cloud. This way if the customer mistakenly deletes your application, you have a mechanism for recovery. You can check your server on ...