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Modifying a LGPL licensed image to create iPhone app icons.

Hi, I would like to use icons under the LGPL license in an iPhone application. I want to modify these icons (size, color or more advanced editing) in order to fit my app requirements. I understand that the modified versions inherit the license. But embedding the app in an iPhone makes it harder to share the images and license files. M...

Custom UITabBarController Problems with View Controllers and Views

Hi there, I'm writing a custom UITabBarController so I can fully control appearance of the tab bar. I've got it all working so I have an array of view controllers that it handles. The controller has a main view which fills the screen, and inside it it has a UIView at the bottom for the tab bar. That tab bar view has a button for each v...

Adding an accessory view button to the MKMapView call out annotation?

Hi all, I've recently come across this website and I've been trying to add to my call out view a button (from a image). The code on the websites example works just fine, but when I tried to add in the same code to my project I'm not getting the same results. There is obviously something I've missed but I cannot seem to work this one o...

Push Notification icon in Settings

I've got an app that uses Apple's Push Notification Service. I'm registered, and receive the notifications just fine. However, when I go into the Settings -> Notifications area, my app is listed, but there's no icon visible. Is there a flag, or a special PNG I need to include in my bundle? Thanks! ...

Objective-C: Is an autoreleased initialisation followed by a retain wrong in a constructor?

In my @interface theres a NSArray *Monate followed by: @property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray* Monate; If i do: filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"SomeFile" ofType:@"plist"]; self.Monate = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:filePath]; in the constructor, it gets set to an autoreleased object (is that correct?). So s...

List iPhone application document files

Is there a way to get the filenames of the files in an iPhone application's document-folder? How do you do that? ...

how to change the font size of a UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle cell on iphone 3.0

I know you previously change the font size of a cell like so: cell.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18]; I'm using a cell that is init'd with the style UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle. How do I change the font size of the textlabel and detailtextlabel of this type of cell? ...

Is it advisable to use the same xib in a UINavigationController view and a modal view?

I have a view (and corresponding view controller) in my iPhone app that allows the user to edit settings for the application. This view is accessible via a menu (a table view). I use pushViewController in my UIViewController subclass to get it shown. When I do this, it appears as I expect - the nav bar appears on top of the xib, and the ...

Recommend iPhone library for image gallery?

I would love to use a UIImagePickerController to browse and view images from my app's bundle. However this functionality doesn't seem to exist. Is there a library that replicates the functionality of the photo browser, but can use a list of images from the app bundle? ...

Can an NSPredicate search for an object within an array owned by an object in another array?

I've read the NSPredicate documentation and couldn't wrap my head around it all the way. Simple predicates I can understand, but now how do I create a predicate for the following situation: I have an array of Foo objects. In the Foo class, one of the iVars is an NSMutableArray of Bar objects. I need to filter the array of Foo objects...

How to verify input in UITextField (i.e., numeric input)

Hello all, I am fairly new to iPhone development and I have what seems to be a simple question that I cannont figure out. How can I verify that a user input a number and a decimal into the text field? I have tried many different things but the closes I can get only allows for numeric strings of the form: 5.34 or 23.89. I need it to ...

Example of a manually written Tab Bar iPhone application?

I have an application I'm working on that needs to feel somewhat like a Tab Bar application, but without the tab bar. Anyway I'm wondering if someone has manually written such an application that I can use to bootstrap my knowledge in this area? Essentially I want to make a tab bar application using a UIToolbar and with some animations...

How to get layer point?

I am using this code to rotate a needle (like in a speedometer): CALayer* layer = someView.layer; CABasicAnimation* animation; animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.rotation.z"]; animation.fromValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:0.0 * M_PI]; animation.toValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:1.0 * M_PI]; animation.dura...

Another iPhone - CGBitmapContextCreateImage Leak

Like in this post: iPhone - UIImage Leak, ObjectAlloc Building I'm having a similar problem. The pointer from the malloc in create_bitmap_data_provider is never freed. I've verified that the associated image object is eventually released, just not the provider's allocation. Should I explicitly create a data provider and somehow man...

Navigation based Application and UITableViewController

Hi, I am creating a navigation based application and in the root view, it lists an array of choices, which as many you know leads to a more specific choice. My question is the lists that is displayed on the root view is actually not a choices of different functionality like calendar,mail but a choice, which is going to do the same functi...

iPhone-SDK:Changing background view color when there is table present:

Sorry to bump this query once again. I need help urgently. I would like to know about how can we add a background view color when there is table present. Can someone please have a look at the following query as i have places a link for image: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1433193/iphone-sdkbackground-color-for-view-which-besides-...

iphone sdk - XML parseErrorOccurred: how to get rid of the illegal charaters when parsing in XML?

When pasrsing XML using NSXMLParser, I encountered this problem when the parser received some characters that it couldn't take such as: the auto-correct "..." or "--" in MSWord. My app reads XML which is exported out of my database from a PHP file. I wonder if I should handle this on the server side or on the iPhone SDK and How? any he...

iPhone-SDK:Activity Indicator during Startup?

Hi All, I am having a Default.png file in my project, so that whenever my app launches Default.png file loads there. As my app is retrieving data from server at startup(app launch), i want to show activity indicator as well while Default.png file is loading. Is it possible to activate both the process at a time, i mean showing Default.p...

CoreData one-to-many and inverse relationship problem

I am trying to import a set of data into a CoreData persistentStore. This is read-only data that will be presented to the user at run-time. I have an entity called "Category" that has a one-to-many relationship with an entity called "Item", which in turn has an inverse relationship to a Category. As I add Items to the context, how do ...

How to remove animation (CABasicAnimation)?

I want to remove an animation (CABasicAnimation) before it has completed. For example: In my code, I start a needle animating from a rotation value of 0 to a target value of 5. How do I stop the animation when the needle reaches a rotation value of 3? CALayer* layer = someView.layer; CABasicAnimation* animation; animation = [CABasicA...