objective-c

NSPredicate and Regex

Can someone please help me with using Regex with NSPredicate? NSString *regex = @"(?:[A-Za-z0-9])"; NSPredicate *pred = [NSPRedicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", regex]; if ([pred evaluateWithObject:mystring]) { //do something } testing the above wth mystring - qstring123 doesn't seem to work. I am expecting it to enter ...

Elegant Algorithm for Parsing Data Stream Into Record

I am interfacing with a hardware device that streams data to my app over Wifi. The data is streaming in just fine. The data contains a character header (DATA:) that indicates a new record has begun. The issues is that the data I receive doesn't necessarily fall on the header boundary, so I have to capture the data until what I've capture...

popUpButton is setEnabled:YES but doesn't allow click...

my popUpButton is in a window with a group of popUpButtons. If I try to click the 2nd of 4 vertically aligned buttons then the popdown menu will not appear. If I select the 3rd or 4th then the 2nd will now be selectable. throughout my code the setEnabled on that popUpButton is :YES. ideas on where to look in my controller? This is a...

NSString with \n or line break

Does anyone know how to use line breaks in NSString? I need to do something like this - [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@,\n%@", mystring1,mystring2]; ...

Localizing concatenated or dynamic strings

I'm familiar with using NSLocalizedString() to localize strings, but the problem I have today requires a little more finesse. My situation is like this: NSString *userName; //the users name, entered by the user. Does not need localized NSString *favoriteFood; //the users favorite food, also entered by user, and not needing localized ...

Is there any way to get a list of connected servers in OS X? (Bash, Obj C, AppleScript...)

Simply, I'm just looking to get a list of connected remote disks. I have a script right now that compares /Volumes/ to "diskutil -list" but that only gives me the name of the remote disks, not the actual address. Anyone have ideas as to how I might go about doing this? Thanks in advance. ...

Drawing a PDF Right-Side-Up in CGContext

I'm overriding the drawRect: method in a custom UIView, and I'm doing some custom drawing. All was going well, until I needed to draw a PDF resource (a vector glyph, to be precise) into the context. First I retrieve the PDF from a file: NSURL *pdfURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath] stringByAppendingPathCom...

uiscrollview not switching image subviews

I'm building a comic viewer app, that consists of two view controllers, the root viewcontroller basically displays a view where a user decides what comic they want to read by pressing a button. The second viewController actually displays the comic as a uiscrollview with a toolbar and a title at the top. So the problem I am having is th...

NSDateFormatter incorrect date on simulator, correct date on device

Hi, Im building a calendar and to find out the first day of the month I do [formatter setDateFormat:@"e"]; int startDay = [[formatter stringFromDate:newDate] intValue]; On the device this works correctly and the 1st of the month is on the correct day. But on the simulator it is the day after. Although it doesn't overly matter about ...

How to decode an encoded string?

While decoding,I am getting NSData bytes by decoding a string.I am converting NSData bytes as string: -(void)decodeAction:(NSString*)str { NSData *data=[NSData base64DataFromString:str]; NSString *stt=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",data]; printf("\n stt %s",[stt UTF8String]); } Then I am getting the following output: <4f7c2...

iPhone how do I programmatically substitute a degree symbol for the letter o in a string?

I know how to replace text in a string. But that's using keyboard (ASCII) characters. In Objective C, how do I indicate a degree symbol? Also, how do I get the ASCII code for a character? ...

cocoa hello world screensaver

I have been studying NSView and as such I thought I would give a shot at a screen saver. I have been able to display and image in an NSView but I can't seen to modify this example code to display a simple picture in ScreenSaverView. http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/ScreenSaversInCocoa/ BTW great tutorial that works...

Navigation problem with view controllers.

Hi All I have some problem with the my view controllers. When i have about 50 or more records in one of my table view which is below in the stack of view controllers and if i tap the back button quickly the navigation bar on the tap changes but the view does't change. For example: if i have the search controller below in the stack and...

Sorting a multidimensional array in objective-c

Hello, I'm trying to sort a multidimensional array in objective-c i know that i can sort a single dimensional array using the line of code below: NSArray *sortedArray = [someArray sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(caseInsensitiveCompare:)]; I can't seem to figure out how to sort a 2D array like the one below: ( ("SOME_URL", "SOME_...

loading table view on click of button

hi all, i have created an iPhone application with a view based .. the problem is i want to load a table view on click of button how can i do it? i tried.. initWithNibName:@"xibfile" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]... but table view is not loading wat to do? ...

[[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation] always null

As per the title. Calling [[UIDevice currentDevice] BeginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications] has no effect. DidRotateToInterfaceOrientation etc events are working fine, but I need to be able to poll the device orientation arbitrarily. How can I fix/do this? The long story: I have a tab application with a navigation controller on...

MVC with cocoa/objective-c

Hi all, I have a strong j2ee background, and I am trying to move to objective-c for some desktop/iphone programming. I used many java web frameworks with mvc in mind, spring and struts ecc... so I am used to have servlet or controller which pass attributes to jsp pages, which is the view. In jsp pages with jstl you can call this attrib...

How to use Obj-C classes in MacRuby

I am trying to use an external Obj-C class in my MacRuby project, but I can't figure out how to import it. Specifically, I want to use ObjectiveResource inside a MacRuby 0.5 project (since ActiveResource doesn't work - yet). I have gotten as far as the 'framework' command in MacRuby, but it only seems to apply to actual frameworks. Qu...

Are NULL and nil equivalent?

Actually my question here is: are null and nil equivalent or not? I have an example but I am confused when they are equal when they are not. NSNull *nullValue = [NSNull null]; NSArray *arrayWithNull = [NSArray arrayWithObject:nullValue]; NSLog(@"arrayWithNull: %@", arrayWithNull); id aValue = [arrayWithNull objectAtIndex:0]; if (aValu...

need advise about NSClassFromString

according to this code i dont understand about NSClassFromString how did i know "viewControllerName" can i use it from another source ? could you please tell me more information how to use NSClassFromString? UIViewController *viewController = [[NSClassFromString(viewControllerName) alloc] init]; ...