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How to limit a UIImageView to move in a specific path?

This is an iPhone programming question. How to limit a UIImageView to move in a specific path? The path is a circle, and I want the UIImageView to follow exactly the perimeter of the circle. How can I achieve it? ...

Regarding Application Templates

Hi Folks , Here is Jagadeesh, New to the Iphone Development Platform , i need to know the Difference among the Templates for our Applications( like we have Navigation, view, window, Open Gl, Tab Bar, Utility type application)over there and there is a small description at the bottom of the pane , can anyone let me know the Complete descr...

How to build a 'panel' in iPhone dev (with picture)?

Hi there, I need a toolbar like "panel" that could contain text fields and buttons, just like a toolbar you can define its width and height and its position. And you can put the elements you want into the "toolbar". Like the following: Any clues? ...

iPhone Strange problem with NSString

Hi, I have following code which is called numerous times: NSString *Final = [ NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@%@.%@%@", str1, str2, str3, str4, str5, str6]; Every once a while Final string is set to nil, while str1 ... to str6 are perfectly valid string (I have verified in debugger)! I had this code originally, but every once a ...

iPhone Memory Management: No Need to Clean Up and Release Retained Objects on App Quit?

Is the following true? When the app is about to quit, it's not necessary to clean up the memory by calling release on all your retained objects, because the iPhone OS will reclaim the memory it allocated for your app when you launched it. This is faster and safer than rely on the apps to correctly clean up after thems...

Sending POST data from iphone over SSL HTTPS

Hai all, In my iphone project i need to pass the user name and password to a web server,previously i pass data using GET method and used the url with GET format (eg: localhost:8888/login?userName=admin&password=password ) but now i need to sent this as a POST data, can any one help me to find what wrong in this code below ? code i tr...

Mask a whole animation happening in a UIImageView

I need to mask a whole animation that takes place in a UIImageView. I tried subclassing the UIImageView and doing the masking in its drawRect call but that doesn't get called on every frame of the animation as I expected (it doesn't get called at all actually) even though the animation plays fine. Anyone has any experience on this? ...

Have iTunes inform me when I programmatically sync iphone using COM

I've written an application that synchronizes calendar from Lotus Notes to the iphone (using MS Outlook as conduit) and I want to tell iTunes to push the changes onto the iphone. I can do this just fine using the COM interface (IITIpodSource.UpdateIpod) but the problem is that this method return immediately when it starts the synchroniz...

disordered/ordered context fetching

Hello to everyone, I cannot understanding why values assign to array objects become "disordered" after executing executeFetchRequest. Well, I'm not certain that fetching is the problem here. Here's the code. objects=[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"a",@"b",@"c",@"d",@"e",nil]; NSManagedObject *DB = nil; for (int i=0;i<[objects count];i+...

NSDateFormatter confusion

Hello guys, I'm trying to use dateFromString method from NSDateFormatter but it somehow doesn't work for me. I made a test case to show my problem: NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:MM"]; NSString *kkk = @"Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00"; NSString *t...

How to open iphone project's .m files on windows operating system

Hi Fellas I am iphone application developer, I am just new into it. At work i use Mac for development which is quite obvious, but at home i have windows operating system. Is there any way to open iphone project codes like .h and .m files on windows through some converter n all? Coz at times i wish like going through codes back at home t...

iPhone Simulator always generates two shake events? (UIScrollview not scrolling for second event)

When I select "Shake Gesture" from the Hardware menu in the iPhone simulator, my first responder always receives two shake events (with a few milliseconds in between). Unfortunately these two events in the simulator lead to a problem with an UIScrollview that should scroll to a specific position - what it does, but only for the first ev...

How to programmatically alpha fade a textured object in OpenGL ES 1.1 (iPhone)

I've been using OpenGL ES 1.1 on the iPhone for 10 months, and in that time there is one seemingly simple task I have been unable to do: programmatically fade a textured object. To keep it simple: how can I alpha fade, under code control, a simple 2D triangle that has a texture (with alpha) applied to it. I would like to fade it in/out w...

iPhone SDK - How to read on text files.

I want to store some coordinates on a text files that correspond to an image array i will call out on my apps. Is it possible to write it in a notepad and save it as a .txt and be able to read in xcode the coordinates written inside or do i have to use plist format for that? thank you. ...

How to pass a variable from one view controller to another?

Hi Everyone, I have three view controllers, one root controller, one login view controller and one customers view controller. I want to pass the entered username and password in login view controller to the customers view controller. My files and code is displayed below, could you please guide me, how can access to variables set in the ...

valueForKey only returns memory address and not actually value

NSDictionary *topic = [spaces objectAtIndex:i]; NSInteger topicid = [topic valueForKey:@"TOPICID"]; when I run this and print out topic I get the following: Printing description of topic: <CFDictionary 0xdb2a70 [0x30307a00]>{type = mutable, count = 2, capacity = 12, pairs = ( 10 : <CFString 0xdb5300 [0x30307a00]>{contents = "TOP...

Most efficient way to subclass UIView to create an animated UIImageView

I need to play frame based animations. I tried the UIImageView with animationImages but it doesn't give me any control over my animation. I can't pause it, I can't mask it, I can't know the current frame etc. So I subclassed UIView and created something I called AnimationView which takes the array of images and does the animation using ...

Can you flick the idleTimerDisabled boolean on and off from within your app?

For example I have a game with a menu screen and then I have the game itself. I want the timer disabled whilst playing the game but enabled when in the menu screen. I currently have the following code in my app delegate that disables the timer: application.idleTimerDisabled = YES; Any help would be appreciated. ...

UUENCODE data in the iPhone SDK

Is there any way to uuencode data in the iPhone SDK? An API call or perhaps a library? ...

NSMutableDictionary does not get added into NSMutableArray

I am unable to populate the previewData NSMutableArray with this code. XML request is successfully retrieved, parsed but I am unable to populate the previewData array for tableviewController. PreviewsController.h code: #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface PreviewsController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSo...