iphone

UINavigationController inside a UITabBarController with several views in the navigation controller

I've got a UINavigationController that has a UITableViewController as it's root view. The UINavigationController is inside a UITabBarController. In the UITableViewController (*viewOne), if I click a cell a the following code runs UIViewController *newView = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"newView" bundle:nil]; [self.navig...

Keeping values between view controllers

I have an ItemAddViewController, which presents itself as a modal view. One of the fields pushes a new view controller, CategorySelectionViewController, which allows the user to select a single category. ItemAddViewController.h @property (nonatomic, retain) Category *category; CategorySelectionViewController.h @property (nonatomic, ...

Python--How do I write the value of a variable into the pasteboard in iPhone (iOS 4)/

I am running iOS 4 on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS. Before I upgraded to iOS 4, I had installed Python on the iPhone and had found the following snippet of Python code to copy a variable (key in this case) to the pasteboard. I then was able to open another application and paste the value into a text field. out = os.popen('\usr\bin\pbcopy',...

How can I improve the "smoothness" of a 2D side-scrolling iPhone game?

I'm working on a relatively simple 2D side-scrolling iPhone game. The controls are tilt-based. I use OpenGL ES 1.1 for the graphics. The game state is updated at a rate of 30 Hz... And the drawing is updated at a rate of 30 fps (via NSTimer). The smoothness of the drawing is ok... But not quite as smooth as a game like iFighter. Wha...

iPhone custom keyboard

I'm creating a custom keyboard with say 10 UIButtons laid out in a horizontal row. The buttons span the width of the screen, are the same size and must sit flush against each other. I would also like to allow the user to choose a button by sliding a finger along the row of buttons. A preview of the chosen button is displayed elsewhere o...

multiple properties for facebook feed publishing attachment

In the FBConnect.xproj, the feed string is as follows: dialog.attachment = @"{\"name\":\"Facebook Connect for iPhone\",\"href\":\"http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php?tab=iphone\",\"caption\":\"Caption\",\"description\":\"Description\",\"media\":[{\"type\":\"image\",\"src\":\"\",\"href\":\"http://developers.facebook.com/connect.ph...

Flipping a UIViewController managed by a UINavigationController hides navigation bar

I'm 2 levels down on a UINavigationContoller having already pushed a few views. Now I'm looking at an image inside one of the pushed view controllers and when I tap an info button in the navigation bar, I want the sub view to flip leaving the nav bar in place. How do I get just the subview (the view that was pushed) to flip? Right now th...

XCode/iPhone SDK on PowerPC Mac with Pacifist

It is supposed to be possible to install XCode + SDK on a PowerPC. How easy is this? Can it be done with the latest version (3.2.2). If not, which versions? (I think the latest XCode needs an OS version that doesn't run on PowerPC) ...

Tap to focus on camera apps, Supposedly not possible, but a bug in my app enables it (although useless)

Hello I would like to get tap to focus in my app and the controls are hidden Supposedly this is impossible but I know its not. I have a simple iAD dragged into an overlay, no code or anything. When I click on the iAD nothing. but when I close it with the home button I get a modal exit of the nonexistant iAD and the camera apps relaunch...

NSDate MPMediaItemPropertyReleaseDate always returns 1801

I'm trying to extract the year from MPMediaItemPropertyReleaseDate in an MP3 file using iOS SDK 4.0 but it seems to always return Jan 1 1801 for the date. Does anyone know how to properly extract that from the returned NSDate? Here's what I'm doing: NSString *locale = [[NSLocale currentLocale] localeIdentifier]; NSLog([[mediaItem value...

objective-c autorelease

Im new to obj-c and have trouble understanding the function autorelease. could someone explain to me when i should use it? and how is it different than release. also do I need to reset the autorelease pool? how? and when? ...

Cancel a Movie before it begins playing

Hi All, I'm streaming video to the iPhone and don't like the way MPMoviePlayerController handles things at the beginning. I noticed that when you click on the row to select a particular movie the app just sits there until it is loaded sufficiently to play it. So I popped in a UIImageView with a loading image and a nice spinner to keep...

iphone xml parser as easy to use as the objective-c JSON framework

basically im looking for something that will just turn xml into an nsdictionary hierarchy. ...

iTunes Connect app description text won't accept line breaks, description squished.

What gives? I've tried multiple browsers, using safari on a mac.... the description text will NOT take any returns / line feeds, they just get stripped out. It doesn't matter if you cut/paste the description in the description form box, or write your own, everything gets stripped of line feeds and it ends up looking like a wall of text. ...

What's the best way to implement a Back button on the Navigation Bar of an iPhone app

Fairly new to the coding community and took over an app from my developer. I want to implement a Back button on the navigation bar of one of the views in my app. If you guys could point me in the right direction, that'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much! ...

Edit Mode: can't delete AND reorder rows in tableview

When I go into edit mode and reorder the cells in the table everything is fine. But when I reorder cells AND delete a row the app usually crashes: "SIGABRT". I'm using a displayOrder attribute in Core Data to keep track of the order of my rows. GDB tells me that the problem is when I try to save the order: - (void)setEditing:(BOOL)edit...

What can cause "invalid binary" with no email followup from iTunes Connect?

I'm trying to submit an update of an existing application on behalf of one of my clients, and I'm getting "Invalid Binary" failures from iTunes Connect with no explanation of the error. I'm leaving on a 2 week vacation without network access tomorrow, so I'm a bit desperate for a solution. Any insights are greatly appreciated. This up...

How to change background color in iPhone app

I tried this code in the view controller, but it didn't work. Why is that? - (void)viewDidLoad { [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:1.0]]; [super viewDidLoad]; } ...

AVAudioPlayer leak in Simulator

Hi, I have the following code, that leaks in instruments when running in simulator ( memomry allocation is stable though) and is fine on the device. The code gets called everytime a button gets pressed. Im a newbie - so any help and comments welcome :-) if ( audioPlayer){ if ( [audioPlayer isPlaying] ) { [audioPlayer stop];...

Facebook iPhone api, feeds

Hello guys! Is there a way to remove the "userMessagePrompt" ? I paste my code to publish a feed: FBStreamDialog* dialog = [[[FBStreamDialog alloc] init] autorelease]; dialog.delegate = self; dialog.userMessagePrompt = @""; dialog.attachment = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{\"name\":\"%@ AppName!\"," "\"href\":\"lin...