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How to give a custom view for the UIBarButtonItem that is shown on portrait mode for UISplitViewController?

When we go portrait mode while using a UISplitViewController, they will provide us by a barButtonItem. How can I use a customView for that barButtonItem? I tried the following way. It works if I start with portrait orientation. But if I go landscape and when I come back it crashes. In viewDidLoad UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:...

When trying to remove any selected option in an select element, Safari shows it as blank

Examine this code. I'm using jQuery, but I think it is probably irrelevant. JavaScript ​$(function() { $('button').click(function() { $('select option[selected]').removeAttr('selected'); }); }); HTML <select> <option>a</option> <option selected="selected">b</option> <option>c</option> </select> <button>give...

How to change the iVar of another class.

This is the code. It is pretty straight forward. I made two classes one is returning the error and hydrate the iVar of another class (TheView) and show it to the User. however I cant figure it out why the View return Null at all time. Thanks is advance guys. @interface AccountControllerModel : NSObject { NSString *anErr...

How to support Multitasking (fast app switching) with 3.2 SDK

I'm building an app which is a universal iPhone/iPad app. I'd like to support fast app switching (multitasking) with iOS 4.0 SDK (eg: on iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.0). However, when I set the app to build targeted to iPhone OS 4.0, it will not launch on the iPad (which currently latest software version is 3.2.1) So it appears that the versio...

How to work with NSTimer

Im using alot of timers in my application. For recording time, moving object, fading etc. I use the same timer for several puposes in the same view at different times. How should I declare and invalidate or release my timers properly? Atm Im declaring the timers like this: fadeTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1 target:...

How to create fixed/absolute position Tooltips on iPhones and iPads?

For some time now I've been happily using the qTip jQuery plugin. No complaints there. However, on iPads and iPhones, the tooltips appears to be buggy. Symptoms: Before resizing the touch screen everything seems to be working fine. After resizing etc. -- Inconsistent behavior. Some tooltips are misplaced; no real logic there. Diagno...

Is there a code editor for C# on the iPad?

Does anyone know of any decent syntax hightlighters / code editors for C# on the iPad? Compiling the code would be a bonus but not necessary! Edit: I only want to write code on it, not at all interested in actually running the code on the iPad ...

How to get (extract) icon for iOS system app, like address book app?

I want to sync my iPad app with AddressBook system app, so i want to use that icon in UI, which will enable sync process. ...

How can I implement Apple's "Snooze" functionality in their Clock app?

Hello. I'm diving into iOS development and am building my own alarm clock app to become familiar with the platform and SDK. One of the API's I'm currently learning is the Local Notifications API, which I assume is the same API Apple uses to implement their alarms in their Clock app. What I don't understand is how they implement thei...

Effective way to design and manage iPhone application similar to settings

I would just like to clarify that by 'design', I mean software design, not UI design. I have an application similar to the native settings app. The problem I have with it is it doesn't follow the same clear-cut MVC style. Other apps tend to focus around displaying one kind of thing. In the case of a periodic table app for example, it's ...

InputView with custom width?

Hi, i'm trying to do a custom keyboard for an iPad Application (initially in landscape) and I see that I can modify the InputView's height but the width is ignored, always covers the entire width of the iPad screen. Can I modify this property? ...

on the iPad, dynamically created HTML5 video tags wont transform

a video element that was appended will not honor transforms. $parentDIV.append('<video id="myvideo" src="http://site.com//video.m4v"&gt;&lt;/video&gt;'); this transform fails to work on the iPad (but works on the desktop)... $parentDIV.css('-webkit-transform', 'translateX(100px)'); ...

What's a good way to manage the Local Notifications your app has scheduled?

Hello. I'm diving into iOS development and have been working on an alarm clock app to become familiar with iOS platform and SDK. I'm using Local Notifications to handle my alarms, but I need some method of managing the Local Notifications I set so that they can be updated if I edit or remove any of the alarms associated with them. I f...

Enabling zooming in UITableView

Hello, So I'm trying to enable zooming in UITableView so you make the cells bigger. I know UITableView is a subclass of UIScrollView. So I went to the interface builder and changed minimum zoom to .75, max to 4.0, paging enabled, bounce scroll enabled. However, it is not zooming. Any thoughts? Thanks ...

Popover's arrow to track an object in a scrollview

I show a popover whenever a cell in my tableview is touched, with the arrow pointing to the cell, and always pointing left or right, not up or down. The table view is set as the popover's passthroughView, so that the user can select a different cell while the popover is still open, resulting in a new popover for the selected cell. Howe...

Can an iPad app directly launch another app?

Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to launch an iPad app directly from within another app. For example, could I write a login page that takes you too a desktop type page where you can select an app to run, and then launch that app as say, a new thread? I am not sure this is possible, I am just curious about the capabilities of ...

How do I use multiple views in my iPad app?

I am trying to build an fairly simple iPad app that requires me to navigate through multiple views. What I want to do is have some sort of main menu view with multiple buttons on it, and when you click one of the buttons the new view appears and then you work with that. I'm new to iPad development, so I have a few questions about the b...

forbid exit from iphone/ipad application

is it possible and how to implement forbiden exit from application on iphone/ipad? we have an application that must permanently work on ipad device. user should not have any way to exit from application. could you advise how to implement this functionality? ...

Adding UISplitviewController to nib file of universal app, object not showing

So I've upgraded my iphone app to a universal app and am trying to add a uisplitviewcontroller. In MainWindow-ipad.xib, when I try to drag an object to the window, uisplitviewcontroller isn't an option. Furthermore, the screen size is the iphone's dimensions, not the ipad's. How do I get this to work with the universal app? Thanks. ...

plists vs Core Data for holding parameters

I am writing an iPad app that will be expandable with new items via in-app purchasing. For example, my current plan is to have a jpg pattern and a matching plist file with the parameters I need to expand that pattern into a full picture. The user will select one jpg/png from a list of small thumbnails - the list is held in Core Data - ...