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Preprocess strings file during Xcode build

Hello, I know there's a way to preprocess my info.plist file, but is there a similar way to process strings files inside my Settings.bundle? My problem: I have an iPhone app and I want the the user to know about the currently installed version. I do this by displaying it in the apps settings. Now every time i change the bundle version ...

How do I resize my view in horizontal orientation?

In portrait orientation my view is 744px in height. I want to change this height when it is in landscape view. How can I do this? ...

Can a tab bar controller added to a uitableview?

I have a View that contains a UITableView and a UITabBarController. I have set my IBOutlets, but the UITabbarController does not appear. Do I need to do anything else to allow it to appear? Note: I don't want the tab-bar to be displayed throughout the entire application. Only on one specific view. ...

Using an objects date (without time) for a table header instead of an objects date and time (iphone)?

I've been working on an iphone project and have run into an issue. Currently In the table view where it displays all the objects, I use headers based on the objects datePerformed field. The only problem is that my code apparently creates a header that contains both the date and time resulting in objects not being grouped solely by thei...

Getting a tiled image collection on the iPad (Deep Zoom)

I have a set of tiled image collections created via Microsoft's Deep Zoom composer, and a Silverlight application that currently consumes them for display via MultiScaleImage - it's all working pretty well - I'd just like to get some experience with iPad programming and have a couple of ideas for some iPad applications. All my ideas rel...

Attempting to set a view's property results in an error: Request for Member … not a structure or …

I've declared a property in a view (created by interface builder, if it matters) and am trying to set the value from the view's controller – like so: self.view.url = someURL; That gives this error: Request for Member 'url' in something not a structure or union I have included the header for the view in the controller's .m file, but...

iPhone SDK - Accessing other Application Folders

Hello everyone, I know that you can access your own application files using NSDocumentDirectory and such, but can you do that on other applications. For example, if I wanted the Documents of another application, would it be possible to get that information? From the iPhone OS Library as directed here. Sincerely, Kevin ...

Tab-Bar not hiding on all views

I have a tab-bar controller that loads a RootView. The RootView has 4 buttons that will load a UITableView I don't want my tab-bar to be visible in the RootView so I added the following code: -(void)viewDidLoad{ self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES; } When I initially load the app the tab-bar doesn't appear, but when I click on a ...

NSOperations or NSThread for bursts of smaller tasks that continuously cancel each other?

Hi I would like to see if I can make a "search as you type" implementation, against a web service, that is optimized enough for it to run on an iPhone. The idea is that the user starts typing a word; "Foo", after each new letter I wait XXX ms. to see if they type another letter, if they don't, I call the web service using the word as a...

Is it possible to have multiple tab-bar controllers in an app?

I would like to design an app that has a RootView with 4 buttons. Clicking on each button will load another view that has its own tab-bar controller. The tab-bar controller for each of the views is different. If so, how do I go about implementing this? ...

Test iPhone in-app purchases on a different bundle?

We have a group of beta testers for iPhone app. Recently, we added in-app purchases to the app. Before this, we would send out ad hoc builds to beta testers using a separate bundle ID and name so that they could have the store build and the ad hoc build on their phones. However, it seems like we have to build the ad hoc copy with the s...

iPhone: Is Quartz 2D the only way to generate PDF files?

I can't convert an HTML file for example? ...

Template apps for iPhone

Is there a good place to get starter apps for iPhone, where you choose from any of a large set of permutations?...for instance with a nav bar and a flip screen and a 3 deep table view, with Core Data support etc. I guess what I was hoping for is some kind of wizard where you can check a few boxes and have a working app as a starting poi...

Find a UITableView from code?

How do I connect a UITableView so I can find it in my code? ...

subviews show confused rotated state after a modal dialog is displayed

I've created a custom UIViewController that mimics the UISplitViewController. It manages two child view controllers that get displayed in the left & right body area while in landscape and hides the left to show in a popover when in portrait. It works fine, using the didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation: and willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:...

What is wrong with my @synchronized block?

I have 2 threads in my application, a game update thread and render/IO/main thread. My update thread updates the game state, and the render thread renders the scene based on the updated values of the game state models and a few other variables stored inside an object (gameEngine). The render thread gets executed while the game thread is...

How to format date from string?

I have a string with this value: 2010-05-13 23:17:29 I'd like to format it and am using the following code: NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; formatter.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle; NSDate *formattedDate = [formatter dateFromString:dateString]; [formatter release]; When the debugger reaches the ...

FBPermissionDialog bug, showing "Welcome to Facebook" page

I'm experiencing a weird bug that I can replicate pretty consistently with the FBConnect iPhone SDK, more specifically with the class FBPermissionDialog. The result is that instead of seeing the standard extended permissions dialog, the user is shown this: http://cl.ly/15Lx. The only way around it is for the user to delete the app and re...

CGBitmapContextCreate issue while trying to resize images

Hello! I'm running into an issue when I try to create a CGContextRef while attempting to resize some images: There are the errors Sun May 16 20:07:18 new-host.home app [7406] <Error>: Unable to create bitmap delegate device Sun May 16 20:07:18 new-host.home app [7406] <Error>: createBitmapContext: failed to create delegate. My code ...

Button Width, height

What is the best way to go about changing the dimensions of a UIButton at runtime? Width? Height? ...