I see a lot of people saying imageNamed is bad but equal numbers of people saying the performance is good - especially when rendering UITableViews. See this SO question for example or this article on iPhoneDeveloperTips.com UIImage's imageNamed method used to leak so it was best avoided but has been fixed in recent releases. I'd like t...
When using NSImage's imageNamed: method to get the icon for the current computer, if I'm running on a Mac Mini, then I get a low resolution image. If I run the same code from my MacBook, then I get a high-res icon like I'd expect. My code is as follows: NSImage *image; image = [NSImage imageNamed:@"NSComputer"]; [image setSize: NSMakeS...
I have an animation which works fine in the simulator but crashes on the device. I am getting the following error... Program received signal: “0”. The Debugger has exited due to signal 10 (SIGBUS) A bit of investigating suggests that the UIImages are not getting released and I have a memory leak. I am new to this so can someone tell m...
In my application I use lots of images based in interface builder. The problem with this is that it uses large amounts of memory because interface builder caches it much liked "imageNamed" so I've begun removing the image from imageViews in interface builder and instead adding them once the view starts using "imageWithContentsOfFile". Af...
As many people are complaining it seems that in the Apple SDK for the Retina Display there's a bug and imageWithContentsOfFile actually does not automatically load the 2x images. I've stumbled into a nice post how to make a function which detects UIScreen scale factor and properly loads low or high res images ( http://atastypixel.com/bl...
Hi, I'm having a weird problem using [UIImage imageNamed:] method to set table view cells' backgrounds. I typically do this for a cell: backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cell_background.png"]]; For some unknown reason, the image returned is not "cell_background.png". It actually returns an older ...