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ASP.NET webservice authentication from an iPhone app

Hi, I have my iPhone app that calls an ASP.NET Webservice to download "data". Most of this needs to be protected, but currently the webservice that's deployed can be called by anyone who can figure out its URL, thus resulting in a complete loss of security. The simplest form that I can think of would be for the phone to make a call ov...

Help drawing circle in iPhone

The following is a snippet of code where I am trying to draw a circle but my x value prints as a constant value. It's most likely something very very simple. Thanks in advance for any help. int sides = 100; int radius = 200; int centerX = 100; int centerY = 100; CGFloat red[4] = {1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f}; CGContextSetStrokeColor(context,...

How do I set up an NSPredicate that filters for items in a specified group using NSFetchedResultsController

I have a Group entity which has many Item entities. An Item entity can be in multiple groups. The relevant portion of my model looks like this: The Problem When I call [fetchedResultsController performFetch:&error] I get this error in the console *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: ...

How to measure the amount of megabyte data?

I want to make an app that measure the amount of data I use while surfing on my Iphone over 3g network. Things I would like to incorporate; - UIPickerView (to set the amount of data I want to to use before an alert shows) - AlertView ( the warning that my data is about to exceed) - Run in the background. So basically, i want to be able...

How to prepare an NSURL from an NSString continaing international characters?

I have to access a web server using a GET with international characters (Hebrew in my case but could be anything). So I make an NSString just fine but [NSURL URLWithString:urlString]; return nil. I realize I probably have to convert the international characters to percent codes. Is there a built in method in Objective-c to do so? ...

How to perform an action after a moving UIImage reaches a specific point

i am trying out a pong game to start out developing games on the the iphone and i've got everything moving but i need to implement the scoring and make the ball return to the center of the screen this is the code i have currently in the touchesBegan method: if(ball.center.y >=444) { computerScore=computerScore+1; compute...

Why do UIViewControllers get over-released?

On a number of view controllers in my app, it seems to get overreleased such that when I pop the view controller (i.e. the user hits "back"), I get a crash. I am using fairly standard code to declare and load the UIViewController: MyViewController *myVC = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyViewController" bundle:nil]; NSM...

iPhone dev: UIWebview shifts vertical location when rotating device

I have a UIWebView in which the user can browse a bunch of locally stored and interlinked HTML files. All works nice and well, except in this particular case: User navigates to a page with a fragment pointing to chapter 3, causing (correctly) the browser to render the HTML from the fragment anchor and onward. User scrolls a bit further...

Cocoa Touch - Timing button presses

I'm making a reaction type game and I needed some help implementing a way to define who touched it first. So I can compare and know who is the winner and award points correctly. I have no idea how im gonna implement this... Any Ideas? ...

how to open a new uiview like a popup?

hi all. i have a tabbar app. there is a button in one of tab. i want to open a new uiviewcontroller by animation like popup when i press the button. popupviewcontroller has a uiwebview. i want to show some web pages in popup view. i designed the popupview in IB. how can i open my popupviewcontroller with animation like FBConnect. FBcon...

Immediate manipulation of UIView animatable properties during rotation?

I am trying to accomplish some complex effects during my UIView rotation, and I'm using the first half/second half method of rotation animations. However, when my second half starts, I'd like to set some properties on my subviews (alpha, frame) etc, from which to begin animating in the second half. But setting any of these properties of...

iPhone: Possible to dismiss keyboard with UITextField clear button?

I'm wondering if there is a way to have the UITextField clear button 'always visible' textfield.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeAlways; doesn't seem to work .. and if it is possible to dismiss the keyboard using the button? Thanks in advance. ...

How to trigger methods with UIButtonBarItem?

I have a a xib with a toolbar and on that I have 2 buttons all made in IB. I can connect my outlets to the buttons but when I click them the method isn't triggered? Why is that? In my header file I have this: @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *cancelEntry; @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *sav...

Discovering if a component is being displayed (of if it's in background), is it possible?

Hi, I need to run a method everytime the user switch the screen or return to the application (after a call, or pressing the "Home Button" and returning to the app, for example). Is there any way to recognize this, like an event or method that is always executed when this happens? Thank you guys in advance. ...

UITableView only displaying first screen's worth of UITableCells

I have a table view controller (VC1) which has a list of items. When people click on the items, they are taken to a view controller where they can edit them (VC2). VC1 also has the ability to search through the items, and I've built this using a UISearchController and NSFetchedResultsController. It works fine for searching, but I run int...

Setting font of UILabel with Interface Builder comes out Helvetica

Hello, I'm having a problem setting the font for UILabels and UITextViews with Interface Builder. I'm trying to set the font to Gill Sans. If I set it programmatically it works fine, like this: myLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Gill Sans" size:24.0]; But if I try setting it with Interface Builder, I get the same behaviour desc...

Video conference in iPhone app

Hi, I want to implement a kind of video conference on the iPhone. I know that the Faceti e API comes available sometime I can't wait for that.. Does somebody know where to start? Or some sample code would be very welcome! Thanks in advance! ...

Creating custom pins for iPhone Mapkit

I am trying something a little different. Instead of a class, I have used MKPinAnnotationView and the inherited image instance. Here is the code for viewForAnnotation. But it doesn't work. Nothing shows at all. I also tried it using MKAnnotationView and I get the same result. Any help would be very much appreiciated. (MKAnnotationVie...

iphone - main thread freezes for half a second... why?

I have an app that is drawing lines on a quartz context. The app starts drawing when the user move his finger across the screen. At the time TouchesMoved is fired, I save the quartz context to a PNG file (I know saving a file is slow... I have tried to do this to memory but app memory usage skyrocketed, so, I am trying to do it to disk)...

NSManagedObject property managedObjectContext has no value

In my code, I am trying to access [NSManagedObject managedObjectContext] but surprisingly it returns nil. The managed object is loaded because I already successfully accessed it's values using [NSManagedObject valueForKey:]. Is there any case where managedObjectContext returns nil? ...