iphone

How can I access data that's stored in my App Delegate from my various view controllers?

This question is similar to this other post, but I'm new to iPhone development and I'm getting used to the good practices for organizing my data throughout my app. I understand the ApplicationDelegate object to be the best place to manage data that is global to my app, correct? If so, how can I access data that's stored in my App Deleg...

How to implement this UI

Just curious if the tab bar UI element in screenshots is some built in class or customized. If it is customized, then please give me a hint on what classes I might check to have something like that. The first screenshot is initial tab bar. When I tap on the last icon the tab bar smoothly(animated) resize itself as on second screenshot. ...

iPhone: Add background button to view when UITableView has no cells

I have a UITableViewController, when there is no data to populate the UITableView, I want to add a button, which uses an image. So, rather than the user seeing a tableview with no records, they will see an image that says, "No records have been added, Tap to add one", then they click and we create a new one. I assumed I would just hide ...

TTThumbsViewController / TTPhotoView - Change Caption Size?

I am working with Three20's PhotoTest2Controller (TTThumbsViewController). When I click a thumbnail and open the image (TTPhotoView?), how can I increase the size of the caption area? I need to be able to display more than 6 lines. ...

iPhone SDK Get tmp directory

How do i get the tmp directory on the iPhone or iPad? if i use NSTemporaryDirectory() to create a file it does not save to the simulator temp directory. ...

iPhone: Fetched Results Controller, don't use sections in UITableView

I am using a fetched results controller, which, it seems wants to set up using sections in my UITableView. Well, in this case, I don't want to use sections. Which, is easy enough to set the value for numberOfSectionsInTableView: to 1. But, now I am not sure how to get the numberOfRowsInSection: to return all of the cells into one sect...

Beat Detection on iPhone with wav files and openal

Using this website i have tried to make a beat detection engine. http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1952.asp { ALfloat energy = 0; ALfloat aEnergy = 0; ALint beats = 0; bool init = false; ALfloat Ei[42]; ALfloat V = 0; ALfloat C = 0; ALshort *hold; hold = new ALshort[[myDat length]/2]; [myDat getBytes:hold length:[myD...

Moving a UIIMageView outside of a UIScrollView

Hello, At the bottom part of my main UIView, I've an UIScrollView with an UIImageView inside. I'd like to move the UIImageView from the UIScrollView to the top part of my UIView. I'm able to move my UIImageView inside the UIScrollView, but outside, I can't. The UIImageView remains in the UIScrollView, it's parent. Any idea? Thanks i...

XCode and Instruments for memory leaks

I have tested my iphone app using XCode and instrument. I am watching the memory allocation tables, its showing me that every things is increasing i.e Bytes, Live Bytes and so on. What does it means? Am i not deallocating the objects? Can i find which objects are not deallocating using instruments? ...

Parsing XML in Hebrew language

I'm using NSXMLParser in iphone app that I'm working on. Later I'm displaying the text in a view. All is well when I'm using english language in my XML. But my XML is in Herbrew language. I'm not able to read the text properly and display it.Please advice me what change do I've to make in XML. ...

Proper way to copy a readonly NSMutableArray

I have an object with a readonly property that I am trying to implement NSCopying for. It has a mutableArray called "subConditions" (which holds "SubCondition" objects). I have made it readonly because I want callers to be able to change the data in the array, but not the array itself. This worked really well until it was time to write ...

libxml2 on iPhone

I'm trying to parse HTML file with libxml2. Usually this works fine, but not in this case: <p> <b>Titles</b> (Some Text) <table> <tr> <td valign="top"> …Something1... </td> <td align="right" valign="top"> …Something2... </td> </tr...

I know I can't say myView.frame.origin.x = val - But why ?

I know that I can't use that myView.frame.origin.x = 25.0; that I have to use instead CGRect myFrame = myView.frame; myFrame.origin.x = 25.0; myView.frame = myFrame; And I'm doing it all the time (f.e. in animations), but I don't know why I must do it that way. I would like to fill that gap in my understanding. Can someone explain ...

How does one access subviews and handle groups of them?

If I want to manipulate a view I get it with [self viewWithTag:5];. Is there a better way to do this? Sometimes I need to manipulate a bunch of view (e.g. move them all out of the way. I do this by adding a UIView (e.g. UIView iHoldViews) and then adding the views, buttons, etc to this view. Then I can move the iHoldViews view and all i...

Add shading to clipped UIView

I'm creating an iphone application. I have this UIView whose content is clipped with a path. I want to add shading and/or shadow to it. What's the best way to do this? For shadow, I tried CGContextSetShadow() but it doesn't seem to have an effect (perhaps it's drawing outside the shown region?) . How about shading? I want it to appear al...

Is there any way to get the iPhone Model number ?

I just figure out the device on which i'm working by the code given bellow: struct utsname systemInfo; uname(&systemInfo); NSLog(@"%@", [NSString stringWithCString:systemInfo.version encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]); But is there any way to find the model of my iPhone??? Thanks in advance .... ...

How to impose control access on flash player streaming through RTMP?

Hi, I'm using ICECAST and I'm streaming AAC/HE-AACv2 audio/video file through flash player and on iPhone. Both are separate. But when I submit url in WINAMP to stream it's requesting username/password. But when I use it with flash player, it just starts streaming. My case is I want to use same streaming (RTMP) for both website and iPhon...

Should I release NSString before assigning a new value to it?

Hi, Please give me some suggestions about how to change a NSString variable. At my class, I set a member var: NSString *m_movieName; ... @property(nonatomic, retain) NSString *m_movieName; At viewDidLoad method, I assign a default name to this var: -(void)viewDidLoad{ NSString *s1 = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"Forrest Gump"]...

Does Unlocked iPhones Receive Push Notifications ?

Hi Is there any problem that unlocked iPhones doesn't receive Apple Push Notifications from apps. Thanks, Tharindu ...

how to put api key when sharing with twitter

I wrote a code in objective c for sharing on twitter, I pass in to the api the username & password and it runs successfully. I have registered a twitter api key for my application but I don't know how I can pass it in the twitter api. Could you plz help me? Sorry for my english. ...