iphone

Opening AFOpenFlowView already in landscape mode

I'm using the open source CoverFlow replacement from here: http://fajkowski.com/blog/2009/08/02/openflow-a-coverflow-api-replacement-for-the-iphone/ When I detect that a certain view has gone from portrait to landscape mode, I instantiate an AFCoverFlowView and push it onto the navigation stack. If I do so in response to (void)didRo...

iPhone UI Offset Issue

Hi, I have an iPhone app and for some reason it is moving all the UI elements up the height of the status bar, and they are going under the status bar. And I have set up the UI with Interface Builder ...

iphone google maps crosshair button

I would like to use or emulate a button like the gps button in the bottom left corner of the standard maps application on the iphone OS. The button behaves like a toggle button where gps is enabled or disabled depending on whether it is pushed and it may hold a small spinner component while the gps is finding your position. Does anyone ...

Dismissing a modal view in horizontal orientation?

I have a modal view that is presented and dismissed fine when my device is in vertical orientation. I have problems when my modal view is presented in the vertical orientation, but dismissed in horizontal orientation. The entire app switches back to vertical orientation automatically. How can I ensure that if I am in horizontal orientati...

Learning Quartz and/or openGL for iPhone resources?

I am interested in learning how to program game graphics for iPhone OS (3.x and beyond...). Can anyone recommend (based on personal experience) good books/websites that deal specifically with Quartz/OpenGL ES programming. Thanks. ...

Grouped UITableView shows blank space when section is empty

Hello, I have a grouped UITableView where not all sections may be displayed at once, the table is driven by some data that not every record may have. My trouble is that the records that don't have certain sections show up as blank spaces in the table (see picture) There are no footers/headers. Anything I've missed? - (NSInteger)ta...

iPhone SDK mySQL

Hello everybody, I'm starting on a new iPhone project, and this application mostly relies on mySQL. I have a mysql database running on my computer, and I need this application to send queries to the server to gain information. One example is creating and logging into an account. I have successfully done this on my windows vb.net applica...

How to debug 'no entities specified' when working with ZSync and CoreData Syncing

I'm trying to get ZSync to work between a desktop and iPhone app. I've got my schemas set up and all info matches between my MOM and my schema so I should be good to go. When I initiate my sync, however, I get this error. |Miscellaneous|Error| SyncServices precondition failure in [ISyncSession _validateClient:entityNames:beforeD...

Is NSDictionary key order guaranteed the same as initialized if it never changes?

I've run into the same problem as found in this question. However, I have a follow-up question. I seem to be in the same situation as the original asker: I have a plist with a hierarchy of dictionaries that define a configuration screen. These are not mutable and will stay the same throughout the application. Since the original discussio...

Retain, alloc, properties ... Topic to make your Obj-c life easier !

Hey everyone, The more I code, the more I get lost ... so I decided to create a topic entirely dedicated to the memory management for me (and others) not to waste hours understanding obj-c basics ... I'll update it as new questions are asked ! Okay below is some examples : // myArray is property (retain) myArray = otherArray; //myAr...

Easiest way to support multiple orientations? How do I load a custom NIB when the application is in Landscape?

Hi there, I have an application in which I would like to support multiple orientations. I have two .xib files that I want to use, myViewController.xib and myViewControllerLandscape.xib. myViewController.xib exists in project/Resources and myViewControllerLandscape.xib exists in the root project directory. What I want to do is use a sep...

iPhone GameKit Picker Fundamental Connection Issues

Hello.. This is one of the more interesting things I've seen in iPhone development. The following question has nothing to do with code because I'm using an SDK Example from Apple (Tanks example). I have a 3GS iPhone, and a 3G iPhone both showing the GameKit picker screen. Both will eventually show the other phone in range just fine (...

How does UIImage work in low-memory situations?

According to the UIImage documentation: In low-memory situations, image data may be purged from a UIImage object to free up memory on the system. Does anyone know how this works? It appears that this process is completely transparent and will occur in the background with no input from me, but I can't find any definitive documentati...

iPhone sdk can't get Mobclix to work

I followed the guide here, and when I build my application the ad (or anything for that matter) doesn't show up. Nothing, nada. I followed the guide very carefully. I know that it is trying to retrieve an ad (thanks to little snitch), but it doesn't display. Has anybody experienced this and do you know of a fix? ...

Broadcast-style Bluetooth using Sockets on the iPhone?

Is there any way to open a broadcast bluetooth socket, take a listen and send replies? I want a proper peer to peer system where I broadcast and listen for broadcasts in an area. That way, variable clients can mingle. Is this possible? My theory is this: If GameKit can sit around wasting 25 seconds of the users time whilst having ac...

UIButton that cycles through images when clicked

I have three images that I want to cycle through when clicking on a UIButton. How would I go about doing this? This is what I have so far, but it's not really working. //the images NSString* imageNames[] = {"MyFirstImage", "AnotherImage", whatever else}; int currentImageIndex = 0; and - (IBAction)change{ UIImage* imageToShow = [U...

iPhone PlayAndRecord silences all system audio??

Hi, In my iPhone app I am trying to record audio and play iPod music at the same time, so I set the audio session category to kAudioSessionCategory_PlayAndRecord. But when I set this, all system audio (including vibrate) doesn't work anymore, although the iPod audio still does work. Does anyone know if this is a bug in the SDK or somethi...

Prevent app exit from UIWebView link

I have a UIWebView in my app which shows the clients webpage, however I would like to retain the user within the app if they choose to browse the webpage. Can I prevent it breaking out to Safari when a link is clicked? ...

CLLocationDegrees problem

How do you make a CLLocationDegrees? It's not a float, so what is it? ...

How to use NSURLDownload

- (IBAction)startDownloadingURL:(id)sender { // create the request NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.apple.com/index.html"] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:60.0]; // create the connection with the request // and start loading the data ...