iphone

Is there a way to stop a UIViewController from being popped from a UINavigationController's stack when the backBarButtonItem is tapped?

I have a UINavigationController with a root view controller and then I push a UIViewController onto the navigation controller's stack. When the user taps the backBarButtonItem I'd like to be able to have an alert view pop up if there are certain conditions met and cancel the pop of the view controller. For example, the user can make ce...

iPhone Horizontal Scrolling Table

Hello all - I need to create a view on the iPhone that scrolls horizontally through a gallery of images. The issue is that this gallery has the potential to have 100s to 1000s of images that needs to be presented, so I would like to avoid loading them all into a single UIScrollView at once and destroying performance. I need to create ...

Fetching Core Data for Tableview on iPhone - Tutorial leaves me with crashes when adding items to a list

Been following the Core Data tutorial on Apple's developer site, and all is good until I have to add something to the fetched store. I am getting this error after a successful build and load when I try to add a new item to the list: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid update:...

What is the best way to pass values between to different views ?

What is the best way to pass a variabile between 2 different view controllers ? The only way that I acually know it's: app = (yourApp_comAppDelegate *) [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; Thanks ...

Rounding UITableView Image Corners

Hi, I need to add rounded corners to an image in a UITable View cell to 3px. What's the best way to go about this? Apparently you can use the quartz framework? Thanks. ...

If the UIApplicationMain() never returns then when does the autorelease pool gets released?

For code: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil); [pool release]; return retVal; } Apple's doc clearly specifies: Return Value: Even though an integer return type is specified, this function never returns. When users t...

securing a webservice for use from a custom iphone app only

I want to create an iphone application which consists of two parts: The app itself and a server side component. On a users request, the app sends data to the server which is to be handled by human operators. To prevent abuse from an iphone app user, the id of the iphone is sent along with the request, and the operators can blacklist pr...

Telnet and traceroute In Iphone

Hi, I am a beginner in programming for iphone.I want to develop traceroute and telnet app for iphone.Can you please provide me with some sample codes or pointers to start with. Thanks, Vinod. ...

URLCache - iPhone SDK

Hello everyone.. I need some help in using the NSURLCache to download a simple file. It would need to be saved in the Documents folder of the app. I have seen the URLCache example that apple presented, but I didn't find it useful since it was an image that was being shown. In addition there was some complex code on the modification date...

iphone: Adding UIRequiredDeviceCapabilitie

I am reading the "Device Support - Setting Required Hardware Capabilities" on http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/AdvancedFeatures/AdvancedFeatures.html I want to add still-camera capability by doing the following: Open my Info.plist Click + Add UIRequiredDeviceCapabiliti...

iphone image is leaking, but where?

the image that is being displayed in this code is leaking but I cant figure out how. What I have a tableview that displays images to be displayed. Each time a user selects an image, it should remove the old image, download a new one, then add it to the scroll view. But the old image is not being released and I cant figure out why... -(...

Is it possible to change the border color of a UISearchDisplayController's search bar?

I have a UISearchBar added as my table header with the following code. searchBar = [[UISearchBar alloc] initWithFrame:self.tableView.bounds]; searchBar.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:185.0/255 alpha:1.0]; [searchBar sizeToFit]; self.tableView.tableHeaderView = searchBar; Then I set my UISearchDisplayController up as follows. sea...

How to not run function if its a mobile device?

I have a modal pop up function on my website, but i don't want this to run if the browser is smaller than 480px. I have found that if I put an if statement such as: if (window.innerWidth && window.innerWidth > 480) { run function() } Then it should run only if the browsers innerWidth is > 480. However its not working and I think its...

Permanent file changes on iPhone simulator

I'm in trouble with paths, relative paths, NSBundle and all the path/file related operations :) While i run the simulator everthing goes right but all the file changes are not permanent, so everytime i run my app i have to repeat the initial setup of my app. The question: What is the proper way to read and write files (from resource di...

Making a sqlite file stay existent between runs of the program

Hi! I'm having a problem with some sqlite code for an iPhone program in Xcode. I was opening my database like this: int result = sqlite3_open("stealtown.db", &database); Which is how they had it in a book I was looking at while I type the program. But then, that way of opening a database it only works when you run in simulator, not on ...

read http header info in ASIHttpRequest asynchronous

Hello everyone One of my project is to download several large size files using ASIHTTPRequest in asynchronous mode. I hope to read the http returned header info to get the size of files. I know [request respsonseHeaders] (requestFinished: delegate method ) can do that. I tested and found that requestFinished: is only triggered when it c...

How to simulate a mouse click on a UIWebView in Cocoa for the iPhone?

I'm trying to setup automated unit tests for an iPhone application. I'm using a UIWebView and need to simulate clicks on different links. I've tried doing this with JavaScript, but it doesn't produce the same result as when I manually click on the links. The main problem is with links that have their target property set. When you manual...

iphone - making the CGAffineTransform permanent

I am banging my head on the wall here due to this problem: When I create a UIImageView this view has a certain orientation and size. Lets call this state "A". This view responds to taps. It can be dragged around the screen. At some point in the code I apply a CGAffineTransform to the view. Does not matter if the affine is a scale, a r...

Memory allocation in detached NSThread to load an NSDictionary in background?

I am trying to launch a background thread to retrieve XML data from a web service. I developed it synchronously - without threads, so I know that part works. Now I am ready to have a non-blocking service by spawning a thread to wait for the response and parse. I created an NSAutoreleasePool inside the thread and release it at the end ...

Getting better at drawing in code for Cocoa?

Hi, What are some suggested "paths" for getting better at drawing in code in Cocoa? I think at this point, that's my biggest weakness. Is drawing in code something general, or Cocoa-specific? Thanks! - Jason ...