iphone

MonoTouch - foreach vs for loops (performance)

Normally I'm well aware that a consideration like this is premature optimization. Right now I have some event handlers being attached inside a foreach loop. I am wondering if this style might be prone to leaks or inefficient memory use due to closures being created. Is there any validity to this thinking? ...

Objective C selector memory managment (does this leak memory)?

- (IBAction) someButtonCall { if(!someCondition) { someButtonCallBack = @selector(someButtonCall); [self presentModalViewController:someController animated:YES]; } else ... } //Called from someController - (void) someControllerFinished:(BOOL) ok { [self dismissModalViewControllerAnima...

enabling the "return button" in a UITextField keyboard (objective-c/iphone)

When I start editing a UITextField, I have the "Clear When Editing Begins" option checked so it starts off with no text. However, the "Return" button is grayed out until you type at least one character. I've seen other iphone apps where the "Return" button is not grayed out (and if you press it with no text, then it goes back to what th...

objective-c releasing uninitialized class members in dealloc method

Regarding over-releasing. Say I have a instance variable defined in Test.h NSString *mystring; In my implementation Test.m I do not initialize the variable mystring anywhere. But I release it in dealloc: -(void)dealloc { [mystring release]; } Is this now over-released? I've been doing the following in dealloc to avoid any issue...

objective-c over-releasing in dealloc

Is mystring over-released? -(void)dealloc { [mystring release]; [mystring release]; [super dealloc]; } I assume this will not based on [nil release] does nothing: -(void)dealloc { [mystring release]; mystring = nil; [mystring release]; [super dealloc]; } -EDIT- Let's say I allocate mystring in init and r...

iPhone UIWebView width does not fit after zooming operation + UIInterfaceOrientation change

I created a bare bones iPhone app with a UIWebView (Scales Page to Fit = YES, shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation = YES) and loaded a webpage, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/ Rotating the device shows that UIWebView is auto-resized to fit the width. Good. Incorrect: Zoom into the page and zoom out. Now rotating the device shows UIWeb...

Best practice to pass a value from pop over control on iPad.

It is an iPad app based on SDK 3.2. I have a MainUIView, that is subclass from UIView, it have a UIButton and a UILabel. When user press the UIButton, the pop over control will be appeared with a table view. When the user select a cell from the table view, the UILabel changes content base on the user click, and the pop up table view wil...

Flash of a Bullet in the top left corner of the search results

I am using a UISearchDisplayController and SearchBar initialised from a nib. when the search is being run I get a flash of a small circle what looks like a "bullet" in the top left corner of the search results. [See attached screenshot] It occurs in the simulator and on the device sporadically I have looked through my nib and I am no...

How to tell if you touched a CCLabel?

How to tell if you touched a CCLabel? The following code obviously does not work well enough because it only tests for point equality. Naturally touch point will not necessarily be equal to the position property of the CCLabel (CCNode). How to I tell if a Touch point has fallen within the "rectangle?" of the CCLabel? - (void)ccTouches...

displaying music current time & duration from AVFoundation

I have a view-based iphone application that has a single play-pause button that plays an mp3 file. At the time of invoking my doPlayPauseButton() method, I 'd like to show the current time and total duration of this mp3 through the AVAudioPlayer instance I've created, called myAudioPlayer. I have placed two labels at the UI and i'm tryin...

Accessing controls from implementation class

I develop a game that has a big number of buttons (25). I want to know if i can access them without initiating them in interface (.h) in my implementation class. ...

POSTDATA, ASIHTTPrequest + instapaper

Hi guys, I'm trying to use ASIHTTPRequest to submit links to instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/api). I'm able to authenticate but I get a 400 response when trying to submit a link, so I'm clearly in need of figuring how to use postdata. Any help appreciated. Sample code attached. Thanks NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlInsta...

Why do touches only get detected ABOVE my CCBitmapFontAtlas and not ON it? (cocos2d)

I am detecting touches for CCBitmapFontAtlas (just text labels) as shown in the code below. But it seems that touches are only detected slightly ABOVE the CCBitmapFontAtlases? Did something get screwed when converting between coordinate systems? (*Note objects label1, label2, etc are CCBitmapFontAtlas) - (void)ccTouchesEnded:(NSSet *)t...

Password protect iPhone app

I'm starting a new app, and I'd like to know how to require a password to open it. I've been researching on Google and the Apple Dev Forums and haven't found anything. I was considering a UIActionSheet in the application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method of the app delegate implementation file, but am unsure how to go about doing so....

reorder NSArray in objective-c

I have an NSArray of JSON file locations. There are stored in the user's/app's Document directory and inside each JSON file is a name value. I'm able to retreive the data from JSON files, I don't need help with tht. But I need help on sorting NSArrays I have no idea how I can do that based on a value inside the file, while not being pa...

[iphone,twitter] Accessing the Twitter API through a proxy using NSURLConnectionsm, OAuth problem

I'm having no problems with sending an update directly via hxxps://api.twitter.com/, but the app (for the Iphone, I'm using NSURLConnections) I'm working is supposed to allow the user to select a preferred proxy (e.g. hxxps://twitter-proxy.appspot.com/api/ or hxxps://nest.onedd.net/api/), and I keep getting a 401 error (Failed to validat...

How do I set the color for the editButtonItem in the navigation bar of a UITableViewController ?

Hi I have a UITableViewController where I added a "editButtonItem" in the navigation bar : self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem; No magic here, but I try to define the color (background and foreground/textcolor) of this button. I read in the Apple forum somewhere that the button changes the color if I change t...

CGContextFillEllipseInRect: invalid context

Hi all, when I launch my app, I keep getting this CGContextFillEllipseInRect: invalid context error. My app is simply to make the circle 'pinchable'. The debugger shows me this: [Session started at 2010-05-23 18:21:25 +0800.] 2010-05-23 18:21:27.140 Erase[8045:207] I'm being redrawn. Sun May 23 18:21:27 Sidwyn-Kohs-MacBook-Pro.local Er...

data not reloading into tableview from core data on minor update

I've got a basic photo album application, on the first view a list of albums is displayed with a subtitle showing how many images are in each album. I've got everything working to add albums, and add images to albums. The problem is that the image count lines are accurate whenever the app loads, but I can't get them to update during exec...

Implementing MVC in Iphone

Hi I am new to iPhone Progrmamming. Can anybody please tell me from where to learn implemetation of MVC in iPhone. Thanks Gurpreet ...