objective-c

Is there anything similar to AutoMapper for Objective-c?

AutoMapper for .Net lets you map from one type to another. Its most basic function is to create one type of class from another type of class by copying property values from type A that exist in type B (have matching names and types). Example: public class ClassA { public string StringProp { get; set; } public int IntProp { get...

Modal view controllers calling other's "viewDidLoad"

I have a bunch of pages I am chaining together and presenting as modal view controllers. THey all have viewDidLoad methods. It seems that when one is loaded though it calls the viewDidLoad methods of ones in the background too. How can I stop this? Thanks! ...

How do i test my app data persistence during development?

Hi, My question is related to the following three questions. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2099747/iphone-what-happens-to-previous-data-when-app-is-upgraded-to-new-version http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1223696/how-the-application-upgrade-works-in-iphone http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941479/upgrading-iphone-application-v...

Core Data max storage iPhone

Is there a limit to how much persistent storage a single iPhone app may consume? What does save set the error argument to if the iPhone hits a per-app limit? What if it hits the hardware limit? Is it possible to limit the number of objects stored for certain entities? If so, what's a good approach to doing this? acani, an iPhone app I...

Add spaces between words in spaceless string

I'm on OS X, and in objective-c I'm trying to convert for example, "Bobateagreenapple" into "Bob ate a green apple" Is there any way to do this efficiently? Would something involving a spell checker work? EDIT: Just some extra information: I'm attempting to build something that takes some misformatted text (for example, text copy ...

Updating/Deleting relationships using Core Data

I have the following relationship defined in Core Data Person --> Worked <-- Job I have a view that shows Person information in a tableview. The user can then click on Worked Items to see all worked items for that person (Worked entity shows hours worked and related job). I then push a view showing worked jobs for that person. I also s...

NSUserDefaults synchronize does not work when synchonizing archived data

I have a Mutable Array of objects, NSStrings, NSArrays, NSDictionaries, NSNumbers. These I archive this array and add it to NSUserDefaults without any problem, however when I call synchronize the method returns NO. Code: [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:statusUpdates] forKey:t...

help needed on writing NSData to output stream using NSStream in objective c

Hi, i using the following code which writes the file from a path to an output stream but every time i run the code, it always write 131768 bytes to the stream regards of my file size(8MB or 5MB or etc). Can someone please check for me? i can't seems to find the problem. Or it there other ways to do it? I'm using NSStream with the follow...

Show a view as a splash screen in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

I have a Tab Bar Application and I want to simply display a view (splash screen) once the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method loads up the tab bar controller. Why is this so hard? Please show me how I'd load up and show a Xib file called SplashView.xib below and display it: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishL...

NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = -1708

Hello, I am trying to attach a Image to Mail application using Applescript. But on 10.5 I am getting NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = -1708 error. What is this error means? Can anybody guide me with this? Regards, Sowmya ...

how to manage a stack of UITableViews without a navigation controller

I am new to iPhone development, and I am working on modifications to an existing iPhone app. The high-level overview of the issue is this. I have a button displaying a pop-up containing a UITableView. I'd like to click on a menu item and display a second UITableView with sub-items, including a back option. If the user clicks back, they...

Is it possible to add attendees in EKEvent (in iPhone Native calendar app)

Does any one know how to add contact( attendees and organizer property) name in EKEvent(native calendar application). Thanks. ...

Pass a variable between lots of UIVIewControllers

Hello, In my iPhone app, there is a setup assistant which helps users to input a lot of data. It's basically a UINavigationController with lots of UIViewControllers in it. Now, at a certain point, I want to access a variable that the user entered in the first UIViewController he saw. I could pass the variable between every UIViewControl...

how to write NSMutableDictionary into Plist

hello all, can any one help me with this how to write a NSMutableDictionary into a plist.... thanks in advance.. ...

NSNetservice did not get netServiceDidPublish delegate call

Hi, what I want to do is enable a simple bonjour service on my ipod touch. And after I publish my custom bonjour service, the delegator did not get "netServiceDidPublish:" call. I also check there is not any error message from "netService:(NSNetService *)sender didNotPublish:". Below is my code section: // AsyncSocket class comes from ...

Disable numbers and punctuation button on iphone keyboard

Hello, I have a UITextField that brings up the keyboard. I just want the user to input alphabets and not numbers or punctuation marks. How do I disable the numbers and punctuation key on the default keyboard that pops up. Thanks. David ...

Automatically exit my application after 10 minutes of non interactions

An example would be if a user sat their phone down with my application open and running but there had been no interactions with the application in the last ten minutes, the user should be logged out and have to sign in again. Is this a parameter that can be defined? ...

next fire date in UIlocalNotification

Hi All I have created a UILocalNotification....& when i print it NSLog(@"Notification %@",self.notification) it gives Notification <UIConcreteLocalNotification: 0x6f45440> {fire date = 2010-10-22 00:09:00 -0700, time zone = America/Vancouver (PDT) offset -25200 (Daylight), repeat interval = 64, **next fire date** = 2010-10-22 00:10:...

Facebook API with iphone

Hello, am new to iphone technology and i have been allocated on a project where i will be using an API of facebook so i have downloaded the facebook api from this link http://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk and i read its documentation where i got confused this is what i want to do: 1) The image from the UIImageView must be posted...

Objective C 's NSString subStringToIndex causing strange issue.

Hi everyone I am working on a game and I have run into a really weird issue and was hoping to get some help. Basically sometimes the text is a bit long to show in one textbox so I wanted it to break down a string and store the undisplayed text in a string to be used in the next message box. So when I use this code.. NSString * Talkin1 =...