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remove viewController from a window iPhone

I have following code in my Application. Comments in my code will specify "My Question". - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { tabBarObj = [[UITabBarController alloc] init]; vctr0=[[SplashScrn alloc] initWithNibName:@"SplashScrn" bundle:nil]; vctr1=[[SearchViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"Sear...

Editing a run script build phase in XCode

In XCode I made a new run script build phase and want to do one of two things: edit it delete it I can see how to add a new one, but not how to access the existing one? Any help appreciated, thanks :) ...

Data base for iphone application - any advice?

I am building an iPhone app that contains medical information for medical professionals. The data has a sort of taxonomy which is easily represented in the form of e.g. a mind map on a piece of paper. On the device, the idea is to navigate through a series of items in table views to get to a detail view with text and picture information...

Using The value of an NSString variable to manipulate the object the the name refers to.

I have a bunch of images on the screen.... UIImageView *s1, s2 ,s3 etc up to *s10 Now suppose I want to update the image each displays to the same image. Rather than doing s1.image = sampleimage; s2.image = sampleimage; : s10.image = sampleimage; How could i write a for loop to go from 1 to 10 and then use the loop var as part of the l...

Painting a UIView from a background NSThread?

hi guys. I am developing GL paint application. To paint any object, I am using UIView that implemented. Starting paint method : - (void)viewDidLoad { .... [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(paintingObjects) toTarget:self withObject:nil]; } - (void)paintingOb...

Automatically Launch App during iPhone Call

Hi, I suspect the answer to this is 'no' (as with so many iPhone questions), but I wanted to be 100% certain :) Is there any way I can launch a phone call within an iPhone app and then have my app immediately re-launch (during the call) so that I can display some information about the call in progress? Thanks, John ...

How to draw a shape on top of a UIImage while respecting the image's alpha mask

I need a UIImageView that can draw itself in color or b/w according to a flag: BOOL isGrey; I'm trying to do it by drawing a black rectangle on top of the original image with the Quartz blendmode set to Color. This works except it doesn't respect the image's alpha mask. See illustration: Searching Google and SO, I found and tried...

What could a leaked UIImage of size 16 Bytes indicate?

16 Bytes is pretty small, right? None of the UIImages I create in my app are that small, yet the Leaks Instrument is reporting a leaked UIimage of size 16 Bytes... Any clues on what this could be? Incidentally, there was also a leaked CALayer object of 48 bytes... ...

How do I release the ACTUAL memory and not just the pointer to the memory?

I am releasing things but the memory seems to still be there according to instruments. Am I just releasing the pointer and not the actual data? How do I release THE DATA in objective-c? What's the difference between [anObject release] or [&anObject release]???? Please excuse my lack of knowledge on the subject of memory and pointers. ...

Where do I set my iPhone App's version?

The only place I can think to change is the version in my Target Properties. However, I would assume this is supposed to go somewhere in my Info.plist file as well? If not, how can I read this version info into my app at runtime (if it's in the plist somewhere, that's no problem). ...

Detect when a UITextView has finished scrolling

Hi All, Is there a way to detect when a UITextView has finished scrolling? As a note, I allow the user to enable or disable paging. Thanks. ...

Observing CLLocationCoordinate2D in iphone SDK

Hi Team, In iPhone SDK, can we only observe Objects, and not struts like CLLocationCoordinate2D? Example: I've got some very simple code where I'd like to observe a property of type CLLocationCoordinate2D, I've made sure to synthesize it in ABC.m. @interface ABC { CLLocationCoordinate2D currentLocation; } @property (nonatomic, readwr...

how can i draw something on my Sprite?

i am using cocos2d to develop a game, now have a sprite loaded from image, and i would like to draw something on it like square? how can i do that? ...

Downloading images over the network is slow on the iPhone

I'm displaying a few images that are being downloaded over a network connection on a UITableView. Loading these images is extremely slow. Are there any performance tricks I can use? ...

What is happening to memory when I do this (memory question)?

I am trying to figure out how to pass a UIImage around between various view controllers without duplicating the UIImage and increasing memory unnecessarily. The image is passed successfully using the method below, but I cannot seem to free up this UIImage later on, which ends up weighing down my app with 7MB+ of data that cannot be accou...

tableview array

hi i am making an application of iphone, in which i hav one view name dealsviewcontroller, in this view i have table view in each row i am showing 3 arrays values. now the problem is that i have to shows these arrays values in next view in separate label. if anyone has any solution of this, it would be greatly apreciated. Thanx in advanc...

How do you recognize drag gestures

Hi, I have several buttons in my view built using IB. Each button triggers a short audio sound. I want to be able to drag my finger over them to trigger them... just like you are dragging your finger over piano keys (don't worry I am not making a piano app) I cant figure out how to recognize a touch outside the button and then inside ...

Difference b/w NSArray and NSMutableArray

Hi, What is the difference b/w NSArray and NSMutableArray ? i am new to iPhone. ...

What does GeneralBlock mean in the ObjectAlloc Instrument?

I am trying to free up some unused resources in my app. I have a couple MBs of an (object?) of category GeneralBlock and I have no clue what this is or how I should be approaching the freeing up of this GeneralBlock. GeneralBlock has no apparent use. When I start my app there is a MENU screen at which point in time I have about 300kb o...

Want to show navigation bar while opening URL-iPhone

Hi All. I have been scratching my head for this issue. I hope the query title is self explanatory. On clicking a button i am opening URL like following: NSURL *girlsUrl=[NSURL URLWithString:[IMAGE_URL_GIRLS objectAtIndex:(indexValue*3 + currentPageNumber)]]; [[UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL:girlsUrl]; its opening a URL in sam...