iphone

How to store NSMutableArray of user defined class objects to file system in iphone?

Can anyone please tell me how to write NSMutableArray of custom class objects to file? below is the code which i am using to write my array "medicationsArray" to file. medicationsArray contains the objects of below medicationData class @interface medicationData: NSObject { NSString *drName; NSString *date; NSString *descript...

objective c and NSDate

hello all, I am looking for component that can handle a spesific date. what i am trying to do is to get Astring fron sever that represent date(for example 04-08-2012) in my iphone i want to be able to "work" with this date. such to compare it to another date , check if the date in the past or future and to print it to the app GUI i tri...

Can get members, but not count of NSMutableArray

I'm filling an NSMutableArray from a CoreData call. I can get the first object, but when I try to get the count, the app crashes with Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”. How can I get the count? Here's the relevant code - I've put a comment on the line where it crashes. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; managedObjec...

What should I do when the managed object context fails to save?

Example: I have an Cat entity with an catAge attribute. In the data modeler, I configured catAge as int with a max of 100. Then I do this: [newManagedObject setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:125] forKey:@"catAge"]; // Save the context. NSError *error = nil; if (![context save:&error]) { NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [erro...

Communicating between classes set up in nib, in code?

A beginner's question: If, in your nib, you have the File's Owner linked to the ViewController class, and you also have a NSObject-derived class, how do you communicate between the ViewController class and the NSObject class within code? For instance, suppose ScientificCalculatorView.xib looks like this File's Owner (class: Scientifi...

So does Apple recommend to not use predicates and sort descriptors in an NSFetchRequest?

From the docs: To summarize, though, if you execute a fetch directly, you should typically not add Objective-C-based predicates or sort descriptors to the fetch request. Instead you should apply these to the results of the fetch. If you use an array controller, you may need to subclass NSArrayController so you can hav...

About setStatusBarHidden

Today my app approved, but I got emails from users says it crash. I figured out that [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimationSlide]; Is the problem, Because users have firmware 3.1.x this API is not working and app crash. So I have replace it with if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice...

Show app running time in iPhone

I would like to write a counter that shows how many seconds an app has be running for. (textView) and the counter should be cumulative and starts from where it left off. Im new to iphone sdk. ...

How to do an fetch request with expressions like this on the iPhone?

The documentation has an example on how to retrieve simple values only, rather than managed objects. This remembers a lot SQL using aliases and functions to only retrieve calculated values. So, actually pretty geeky stuff. To get the minimum date from a bunch of records, this is used on the mac: NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchReques...

How to decoding the string in iphone

Hi, I want to decode my string. I have used parsing and get a string from RSS feed. In a string these special characters are not allowed &,<,> in my app. In server side encoding those characters and give it to the string. So now i got the string like, Actual String : <Tom&Jerry> (only these characters are not allowed in node data & <...

Asynchronous Request make for-Loop waiting for didFinishLoading

Hey guys, I have a asynchronous url request within a for loop. This loop is called 20 times, each time one parameter of the webaddress is changed. Everytime the didFinishLoading method is called I want to hand over the data of this specific webadress. The problem now is that when I run the for loop, the didFinishLoading method is not c...

How can I determine programmatically that my app is running on an iPhone, iPad or iPhone 4?

Hello, I just finish my iPhone game using cocos2d. But before I put it on the AppStore, I'd like to make it work on iPad (which have a bigger screen) and iPhone 4 (which have a bigger resolution). So, how can I determine programmatically that my app is running on an iPhone, iPad or iPhone 4, to be able to use the correct coordinates / im...

Application get crash while using NSAutoreleasepool inside MKMapview regionDidChangeAnimated method

Hi, i am working on a map application, in that i like to drop the pins (as in Zillow apps) when ever user change the map view. I am using following code code. i am try to load the xml data from server using NSAutoreleasepool to do the xml parsing in the background thread. (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView regionDidChangeAnimated:(BOOL...

Is there any tool to check if I used private api before submit to appstore?

Hello eveyone One of my app was rejected due to using private API. But Apple did not give me more details. Is there any tool to detetect and locate the codes where I used private API? Thanks interdev ...

iphone: accessing the preferences localization file from code

I was just facing the following problem and couldn't find a solution for it. Hopefully someone could help. The app I am working on has some preferences, which are using a localization file. Now I want to use labels in my app, which display the exact names, which are used in the localization file for the preferences. But I couldn't find ...

Resizing Tab Bar Controller Views (iPhone dev)

Hello, I have an application set up where the window contains a tab bar controller and one of the tabs loads a NIB called 'ShowCaseView.xib': this file is owned by a custom ShowcaseViewController class. In the ShowcaseViewcontroller class I have added a UIScrollView object, like so: imageScrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFram...

Does this collection operator method also work on the iPhone?

NSNumber *salaryOverhead = [anEmployee valueForKeyPath:@"[email protected]"]; ...

Really new to XCode. Why won't the thing run?

Hi, I'm trying to follow the April 2009 and Winter 2010 Stanford iPhone app development videos and I'm running up against the same problems with both. First, they don't appear to be using the latest version of XCode - the Outlets and Actions panels are in a different window and there is little info on the net about this (other than one...

UIAlertView subclass with text fields for iOS 4

Has anyone seen a solution for adding text fields to a UIAlertView (without private APIs)? On 3.x I've been using enormego's EGOTextFieldAlertView, but this doesn't work properly when compiled for iOS 4. Any suggestions? http://github.com/enormego/EGOTextFieldAlertView/ ...

Objective-C partial implementation of classes in separate files

I am using core data and am generating classes from my data model. I implement custom methods in these classes, however when i regenerate i generate over the top so i end up copying and pasting a bit. What i would like to do is split my implementation files ('.m') so i can have one header file with multiple '.m' files. then i can keep m...