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iPhone email PDF refresh

I email out daily sales reports via SQL Server Reporting Services. However, a few users receive on iPhones and the reports don't reload when a new one comes in. It thinks it is the same file as the previous day's report. Is there a way to clear the cache or force a reload? ...

How to deal with many to many relationships with NSFetchedResultsController?

OK so I have two entities in my data model (let's say entityA and entityB), both of these entities have a to-many relationship to each other. I have setup a NSFetchedResultsController to fetch a bunch of entityA. Now I'm trying to have the section names for the tableview be the title of entityB. sectionNameKeyPath:@"entityB.title" N...

How do you create a DropShadow on a UIView

My current code doesnt seem to do anything: CGContextRef currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); CGContextSaveGState(currentContext); float myColorValues[] = {1.0, 0, 0, .8}; CGColorSpaceRef myColorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); CGColorRef myColor = CGColorCreate(myColorSpace, myColorValues); CGContextSetShadowWithC...

iPhone Settings app and keyboard control?

So I'm putting my app's preference settings into the Settings app. One of the settings is an edit text field (PSTextFieldSpecifier). When touched, the keyboard dutifully appears, I can make the edits, but when I press Return....nothing. Well, the editing is completed, but the keyboard remains. I see no way to make the keyboard go awa...

SSL socket connection on iPhone

Is there a way to reuse SSL socket connections on the iPhone. I'm seeing an extra 3-4 second overhead in doing SSL handshaking. I'm using NSURLconnection currently to do the API calls and each one of them is taking 4-5 seconds on Wifi. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ...

iPhone Objective-C service handlers

Hello community! I am a as3 developer, I am used to use handlers everytime I launch an event and I am wondering which is the best way / practice to do that in Objective C. Let's say I want to call a diferent services from my backend. In as3 would be something like this to listent to the finish event: service.addEventListener( Event....

Invocation of ViewDidLoad after initWithNibName

It appears that ViewDidLoad() is sent to a ViewController only after its View is physically displayed (i.e. via NavigationController pushViewController), and not immediately after initWithNibName(). Is this a behavior I can rely on? I would like to get the chance to set the member variables of my view so that all the members are valid by...

Building a clip area in a UIView from path objects in its subviews

I'm trying to produce a clipping area in a UIView that's generated from path objects in its subviews. For example, I might have one subview containing a square and another containing a circle. I want to be able to produce a clip in the parent superview that's the union of both these shapes. Can someone explain how to do this? About all I...

Problems with UITableView when loading the view into the main window

I've created a sub class of UITableViewController named LoginViewController with the XIB file using XCode. Then I opened the XIB file with IB and set the table's style to grouped. Finally I wrote the following code: - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { LoginViewController *loginViewController = [...

Remote Backup User Data on iPhone

I wrote a few iPhone apps using Core Data for persistent storage. Everything is working great but I would like to add the ability for users to back up their data to a PC (via WiFi to a PC app) or to a web server. This is new to me and I can't seem to figure out where to begin researching the problem. I don't want to overcomplicate th...

Resize UITableViewCell to show image at maximum size

I want to show some images and text in a UITableView. But when I add the image to its UITableViewCell it breaks the layout and overlaps with the next Header. How can I set the size of the cell containing the image, so that the layout doesn't get broken? I found some ObjC-Code which suggest this can be done by using heightForRowAtIndex...

accessing view controller's view

I am inside a class on a view-based app, one that was creating with one view controller. WHen I am inside the view controller I can access its view using self.view, but how do I access the same view if I am inside a class? [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]... //??? what do I put here? thanks ...

How to ensure/determine that a post is coming from an specific application running on an iPhone/iTouch?

Building an iPhone OS application that will allow users to anonymously post information to a web application (in my particular case it will be a Rails based site) ... and I want to ensure that I only accept posts that originate from a specific application running on an iPhone/iTouch. How is this best accomplished? (btw, if your answer ...

iPhone locationManager:didFailWithError problem when GPS disabled

So, I've followed other related threads, but for some reason I'm still having this error and I'm about ready to tear my hair out. I have implemented locationManager:didFailWithError to check and see if a user selects 'Don't Allow' to use the current location. -(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError...

Parallax backgrounds in OpenGL ES on the iPhone

I've got basically a 2d game on the iPhone and I'm trying to set up multiple backgrounds that scroll at different speeds (known as parallax backgrounds). So my thought was to just stick the backgrounds BEHIND the foreground using different z-coordinate planes, and just make them bigger than the foreground (in size) to accommodate, so th...

can not set the bool value of app setting

Hello everyone I use the codes below to read and write a bool value from my application: -(void)SaveAppSetting; {     NSUserDefaults *defaults=[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];     bool b=true;     [defaults setBool:b forKey:@"AnyKey"]; [defaults synchronize]; } -(void)LoadAppSetting; {     NSUserDefaults *defaults=[NSUserDefa...

Presenting a Popover From a Rect Problem

I have a UITableViewCell that has some labels and images that can be clicked. I want to present a popover whenever a user clicks on any part of the cell. How can I achieve this without interfering with the click actions of the labels & images? I am currently creating an invisible button ontop of some other clickable items in the cell an...

How to perform an action when UITableViewCell is in highlighted state?

Is it possible to perform an action when a UITableViewCell is highlighted? For example I have a UITableViewCell with clickable labels and buttons. I want to display a popover when the cell is highlighted/touched anywhere, so that the popover is shown without any interference with the labels & buttons. ...

How can I programmatically know which interface orientaton I am in when the application loads?

Using some of the methods, I am able to check the orientations to which I am rotating my device. But how can I know the orientation in which I am in when the app is loaded? I want to write the code to rearrange the views in the viewDidLoad method by checking the way my orientation is in? ...

NSArray from NSSet - Do I have to sort it myself?

I've got data in an NSSet, and I need to get it into an NSArray. Do I need to sort it myself (again, this came from Core Data) or can I get it out in a sorted order? ...