iphone

iphone connecting code to the 'back' button

Is there a way to connect code to a view's 'back' button that is part of a navigation controller? That back button is automatically coded in by the nature of it being a navigation controller so I am not sure how I can connect code to it. (I know this should be really easy but I can't seem to find it in the documentation on navigation c...

Color scheme for iPhone app

It has been suggested to me to have unified color scheme for my iPhone app. They said the colors in my app are incoherent and clash. What tools are there to help with this and where can I find examples? ...

Is there a way to specify different bundle display names for different iOS devices in a universal app?

I'm guessing no, but would love to be wrong. I would like to use a bundle display name for my universal app that shows great on the iPad and iPhone 4, but is too long (has ellipses) on older iPhone models. I'd like to specify the full bundle display name on the former two platforms, and then specify a shorter name on older iPhone models....

Subclass NSCache - App Singleton

I am writing an iPhone app and I want to create a NSCache singleton. I am having trouble, here's the code that I have: MyAppCache.h: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface MyAppCache : NSCache {} + (MyAppCache *) sharedCache; @end MyAppCache.m: #import "SpotmoCache.h" static MyAppCache *sharedMyAppCache = nil; @implement...

Using tags in iphone programming--can someone explain?

Hi, I've seen people using tags in iphone programming, like inside labels or tableview cells: name.tag = kNameTag Can someone explain with an example how these tags might be used? I gather that it's so that you can refer to a ui element later? Like if you programmatically use a for loop to create an array of UIButtons onto the iphone...

Nested UIViewController does not respond to device rotation.

Hello, I'm developing an app using a fork of LeavesViewController that changes to a two-page orientation when the device turns to landscape. When using the Leaves controller alone, everything works fine. When using the Leaves controller inside the view of my main UIViewController, it never gets any of the device rotation messages (how...

YouTube UITableView from a search query using GData

Hello, I'm trying to customize a table view to display a feed of youtube videos based on a search query. I found this code http://pastebin.com/vmV2c0HT which displays a feed of a YouTube channel in a tableview, it works fine. However, when modifying the viewDidLoad function to search for a query instead of a user feed, I always end up w...

iphone: sleepUntilDate vs sleep

hi guys, here is question: i have 2 threads: the main one and the other. on the main thread i perform anything gui related on the other thread i perform all my calculations on some operation i have to stop the second thread for some seconds, waiting the first thread to do something.... my question: which is the best option and wh...

Properly using CoreText

Hey there, I'm having difficulties with adopting the UIKeyInput Protocol with Core Text. I currently have most of it done as posted in the source code, however for some reason it glitches as it types, with incorrect font height for the first letter of each new line, which doesn't really make much sense since it's just drawing whatever is...

How to show No Results screen on UISearchDisplayController?

How can I manually show No Results on a UISearchDisplayController? ...

HTML with event.preventDefault

If the html document is disabled. (no scrolling...) document.ontouchmove = function(event){ event.preventDefault(); } Can I selectively enabled elements in the html document? such as a div, span What javascript should I use to do that? ...

xCode 3.14 iPhone Development Problem

I am new to iPhone development. I am running OSX 10.5.8 and xCode 3.14. I signed up as an Apple developer, downloaded the iPhone SDK and xCode and installed everything properly (based on what I have read online). When I go up to File->New Project to create my first iPhone project, there is no option for the iPhone templates. I am only...

TextView's scrollbar style

The Scroll Indicator Style only has 3 settings, Default, White and Black. I want it to be Orange, how do I change the colour? ...

How do I dynamically create an NSString object based on the number of objects in an array?

Members of my favorite forum, I am stuck with a simple problem (chalk it up to the fact that I am fairly new)... I am using an action sheet. I don't know how many buttons to display, so I decided to set the action sheet delegate to display FOUR buttons in total using string variables, knowing that if I only need to display 2, I can set...

How do you make an Iphone beep

What code allows me to produce a standard beep sound on the iPhone? ...

Launch Count on iPhone App

Ok I want to keep track of how many times my iPhone App has been launched. I will be using this number for a "leader board" for our most active user. I figured the code needs to be in the -DidBecomeActive method being that in iOS4 the app may remain in the background for sometime. Now I know it's probably trivial and i'm just making it ...

Add a subview without waiting until the next frame.

I'm trying to create a loading view that is displayed when code is being called. Right now when I call to add a subview it isn't added until the rest of the method has been run through. For example, - (void)loadFight:(NSString*)levelName { [self createLoadingView]; sumoController = [[sumoViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"s...

HTML5 iphone offline webapp

So i know that "offine mode" is supposed to work when you have no internet connection. But suppose I build a local network webapp, let's say at 192.168.1.100, then I leave my house, and i'm off the network, then I try to hit that address. Will the webapp pull from the cache, or will it say, "you have internet, but the host is unreachable...

Core-plot label not display on top of each bar column

Hi everyone, I am new with Core-plot. I would like to add label about the number on each of bar column on CPBarPlot. I knew that I must implement this method of CPBarPlotDataSource delegate: -(CPTextLayer *)barLabelForBarPlot:(CPBarPlot *)barPlot recordIndex: (NSUInteger)index; But even I implemented that method, nothing happe...

Memory leak on iPhone

Hi, im finding leaks with the leaks instruments tool but have no idea why this method is returning me leaks. any help? code is below if(sqlite3_open([databasePath UTF8String], &database) == SQLITE_OK) { // Setup the SQL Statement and compile it for faster access NSString *str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"SELECT UsageData.Da...