objective-c

How to programmatically change UIColor of view

Okay, this question comes through a friend so it might be lost in translation... Basically we need to change the color on a View. It appears to be stored in NSString format, but using a NSString to set the UIColor doesn't seem to do anything. In other words, if NSString color holds the value "redColor" then: self.view.backgroundColor =...

a "+" sign in email address

Hi. I need to submit an email address with a "+" sign and validate in on server. But server receives email like "[email protected]" as "aaa [email protected]". I send all data as POST request with following code NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", url, @"/signUp"]]; NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFo...

sqlite issue using WHERE statement on a varchar field in Objective-C

Hi, I have this sql statement SELECT * FROM Language WHERE LanguageCode=? where LanguageCode is a varchar(2). When I use sqlite3-prepare-v2 on that statement I got SQLITE_ERROR but if I use SELECT * FROM Language WHERE LanguageID=? where LanguageID is the primary key numeric identity field the statement compiles just fine. Is there an...

How do I update a progress bar in Cocoa during a long running loop?

Hi, I've got a while loop, that runs for many seconds and that's why I want to update a progress bar (NSProgressIndicator) during that process, but it updates only once after the loop has finished. The same happens if I want to update a label text, by the way. I believe, my loop prevents other things of that application to happen. Ther...

Accessing XML data online?

I am just testing an app to get data off our web server, previously I had been using: NSURL, NSURLRequest, NSURLConnection etc. to get the data that I wanted. But I have just noticed that if I swap to using XML I can simply do the following and pass the results to NSXMLParser: NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.fuzzygoat....

How do I get an UIImageView to tell me when its animation stops?

I have a UIImageView that is displaying a series of pictures as an animation. This part of the project works well. I want to display a label when the animation ends. Is there an event that the Imageview will trigger when it's animation ends? ...

Xcode iPhone Programming: Loading a jpg into a UIImageView from URL

My app has to load an image from a http server and displaying it into an UIImageView How can i do that?? I tried this: NSString *temp = [NSString alloc]; [temp stringwithString:@"http://192.168.1.2x0/pic/LC.jpg"] temp=[(NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes( nil, (CFStringRef)temp, NULL, ...

How to make same UIWebView take data from different local .html files?

I have an app, where there's one UIWebView and a UITableView. I don't want to create many .xib's, so I decided to make one .xib for all elements of the table. When user chooses a table element, the UIWebView appears and I want it to load data from different .html's depending on the name of the parent controller. The html's contain text a...

cocoa - referencing a method on the parent

I had a method on my main view controller named "calculateThis". This method was run, obviously, as int newValue = [self calculateThis:myVariable]; when I run it from inside the view controller. Then I created a static class and I need to run this method from there. How do I reference this method from that class using just relative...

Using images and css file for a generated HTML UIWebView

Hi! I'm generating an HTML file for an app, and in this HTML file there's a link to a stylesheet and one to an image. Here's what I tried so far: NSMutableString *toReturn = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:100]; NSString *cssPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"etapes.css" ofType:nil]; [toReturn appendFormat:@"<html><h...

How to make a class in one file work with UIWebViewController implemented in another file?

So I have a UIWebView implemented in one .m file and a UITableView implemented in another. When a user clicks UITableView element, the UIWebView appears. The problem is that I have to set UIWebView's content (local text and images) depending on the UITableView's row number. I know how to do this, but this, of course must be implemented w...

OpenGLES mix and match blending options complicated question

So I have a background line drawing, black and white. I want to be able to draw over this, keeping the black lines in there, and drawing only where it is white. I can do this by using glBlendFunc(GL_DST_COLOR, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); And the black stays black and white gets whatever color I want. However in the white areas, I want to...

Can't set text label in table view in Xcode for the iPhone

I have this code: tableList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"First View",@"Second View",nil]; I have synthesized it and set the property, the problem is when I add this line under the configure the cell comment to set the text of each row, the app opens in the simulator but instantly closes: // Configure the cell. cel...

App crashes every second time a tableview row is selected in navigation controller setup

Disclaimer first: I'm pretty new to Objective-C and the retain model. I've been developing in a garbage collected .NET environment for the last five years, so I've been spoiled. I'm still learning. I'm having my iPhone app crash with EXC_BAD_ACCESS. It happens in a navigtation controller/tableview setup. When I select a row the first ti...

Access viewcontroller which resides inside a Tab Bar

I'm trying to access it in my AppDelegate by doing this Course *rootController = (Course *)[navigationController tabcontroller]; but it won't work doesnt seem to get the "Course" root controller. Thanks ...

Subclassing NSObject, can it cause problems?

I have a very basic data class that is subclassed from NSObject. I declare a few strings, make sure they have properties (nonatomic, copy), and synthesize them. The only method I implemented was dealloc() which releases my strings. Can any memory problems arise from just this? Are there any other methods I need to implement? ...

Size of an Array

Hi all ! I'm new in objective C and iphone and it's hard from me. How do you get the size of an NSarray ? ? ? and print it in the console using NSLog ? thanks now it's basic but hard for me. ...

Programmatical Creation of NSMappingModel

I want to programmatically (without Lightweight Migration) create a mapping model between two models that are exactly the same, except one of the entities (there are a bunch of entities) has different attributes. Let's call this entity "Person". And let's say the destination model has 1) added a new attribute called "address" 2) delete...

How to change to a grouped table view in xcode without using Interface Builder

I have a table that I created within xcode so there is no nib file in this case. I want to make my table into the 'Grouped' style but im not sure how. I think it has somthing to do with the method below, the problem is Im not really sure how to call it, I do understand how methods work I'm just not too sure on where to start with this o...

Merged NSTableView with NSButtonCell problems

I successfully implemented the Merged NSTableView from the article by Dan Wood: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.18/18.11/1811TableTechniques/index.html I am trying to make the cells be NSButtonCells, in general it works well, the only problem is that it only responds to the clicks done in the area of the original column, not...