iphone

IPHONE MPMoviePlayer: Playing video under button layers that can be interacted with while video plays??

I would like to have layers of buttons over video playing in the background on my IPHONE application. Basically, I'm looking to adjust the Movie Player code, in order to allow the application user to tap on different portions of the screen while a video plays and call other commands (for example a video of puppets talking, if you touch o...

Core Data - Large Datasets and Very Long Load Times

I've got about 5000-7000 objects in my core data store that I want to display in a table view. I'm using a fetched results controller and I haven't got any predicates on the fetch. Just a sort on an integer field. The object consists of a few ints and a few strings that hold about 10 to 50 chars in. My problem is that it's taking a good ...

UITableViewController.view crash

So I'm trying to use a UITableViewController (let's call it homeView) in my iPhone application to display a simple table with only a few rows of text which are loaded from an NSArray in the controller. I want to display the table in the grouped style in a subview of a subview (let's call it subSubView) of my main controller. When I try t...

iPhone: Quartz2d vs. OpenGL ES

OK, I'm still brand new to iPhone development. I have a free game on the app store, Winner Pong, but it's just a Pong clone (who would've guessed) that uses the standard UIImageViews for the sprites. Now I want to do something a little more complicated, and port my game for the Xbox 360, Trippin Alien, to the iPhone. I obviously can't ke...

loading image from documents folder

i have the following code which is suppose to be pulling image from documents folder, but yet nothing appear when i compile and run without error..help plz!! NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *path = [docume...

tell pure touch event and pure gesture event apart?

I am doing iphone web development and I've noticed that: gesture events can also be touch events, which means a touch event handler also fires up when there is a gesture event. Any way that I can add specific event handler to gesture (not touch)? Or how can I know if this is a pure touch event or a pure gesture event? ...

Array storage in sqlite

Hi, I am new in iPhone development.I need to store a set of scores in integer (array of scores) for a player.How can i store an array in a single column.I am using sqlite database. Thanks in advance ...

make a timer count down and score displayed on the screen in Cocos2D

Hi everyone How can I apply a timer count down in Cocos2D and the score counter that both will be display on the screen? I am still new to this Please help me out Thanks a lot ...

Why does Apple's GLGravity example become slow and unresponsive after touching the screen?

To reproduce the problem: Download Apple's sample project GLGravity: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/GLGravity/index.html "Build and Go" on a device. Observe how smooth it is. Then, touch anywhere on the screen. Observe how jerky and slow it becomes. Eventually, it becomes unresponsive. Why? And how would you...

IPHONE: I have this line on my instruments... should I worry?

I have this line (see picture) in my instruments while analyzing objects allocation. The line says 1.17 Gbytes of overall bytes??? what does it means? Should I worry? ...

how do i add a navigationviewcontroller for my second view after a basic uiview?

i have a login page as my first view and on submit i need to switch to a navigationviewcontroller as my second view (tableview).i dont want to create a navigation controller from the first view plz help me... ...

Problem filtering an Array into multiple Tableviews (based on SeismicXML)

I've taken the Seismc XMl example and adjusted it to my needs, I've added a tab bar controller with multiple tabs each with a TableView, so far so good, I now want to filter the main TableView, so that different info appears in each of the TableViews based on category. I've created a class for each filter "type" in the app delegate, and...

to change months to exact days?

hi, i am using following code to get months correctly....it returns correct data..but it gives 2 months when i get from two dates...suppose if i give two dates like janauary to march, it will give 2 months...how can i change to no of days exactly(included feb)... NSCalendar *sysCalendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar]; unsigned int uni...

iPhone - NSString value not being set.

Inside of a UIViewController, I am executing the following: TVController* stopTimes = [ [ TVController alloc ] initWithStyle: UITableViewStyleGrouped ]; stopTimes.tableView.frame = CGRectMake( 0, 180, 320, 280 ); stopTimes.tableView.backgroundColor = [ UIColor whiteColor ]; stopTimes.theID = stopID; [ self.view addSubview: stopTimes.ta...

How to create iPhone UITableview object by hand

Hi. I'm new to Objective C, and to the iPhone and Mac development environments in general. I like the object model - it takes me back about 20 years to when I first started OO programming in the way that the object methodologies are implemented. Much of the basics seem to have been lost in the ensuing years, and to some extent, this is ...

iPhone:Background music stops when screen Off and doesn't continue when screen On?

Hi, I have a music file which runs in the background(non-stop) when my app is running. This is my requirement. But when my app is running, screen goes off as per auto lock time set, music is topped. And then again when switch on the screen, my application is coming there but music is not starting. Is it a known bug? (or) How to get scre...

iPhone: string resource not resolved

Hi all, preemptive sorry for the newbie question. I'm trying to load strings from a resource file in an iPhone project (XCode, Objective C++). I've created a file called s.strings with the following content: /* s.strings Created by Seva on 11/22/09. */ "a"="b" The file is in UTF-16, it's in the Resources folder in the project,...

How to correctly use ABAddressBookCreate() to avoid crashes?

I created a method to return the name of an entry in the address book when given an id + (id) nameWithRecordID: (ABRecordID) recordID { ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate(); ABRecordRef contactrec = ABAddressBookGetPersonWithRecordID(addressBook, recordID); .....read the name out CF...

iPhone How to programmatically handle SMS/Call alert notification

I'm having some problems with SMS alerts and call notification freezing up the video player. I'm currently displaying a video using MPMoviePlayerController with movieControl Hidden. I'm also overlaying a subtitle using UITextView on top of the video. However whenever a SMS alert popup, the video will freeze up but the textView will con...

Wi-fi connection iphone

I want to find, and list name of an available wifi connections in tableview...Reachability code can determine whether the wifi connection is available or not... I want to find names also Can any one help me? thanks in advance....... ...