I have a detail view that includes three UIButtons, each of which pushes a different view on to the stack. One of the buttons is connected to a MKMapView. When that button is pushed I need to send the latitude and longitude variables from the detail view to the map view. I'm trying to add the string declaration in the IBAction: - (IBAct...
What exactly does the Objective-C garbage collector collect? For example, if I'm writing a program in Objective-C 2.0, and I use some plain C structs, does my code need to worry about manually freeing that memory? ...
There have been some similar questions asked regarding Grid views, but none have been sufficiently answered (some have been left unanswered as the SDKs were under NDAs at the time). The question is: Can anyone direct me towards a tutorial, or explain to me what steps to take to create a Grid View similar to iBooks, or the Yahoo! Enterta...
Hi everyone, I'm currently kicking off a background thread to do some REST queries in my app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. This thread creates some objects and populates the model as the rest of the app continues to load (because I don't block, and didFinishLaunchingWithOptions returns YES). I also put up a loading UIViewC...
I am attempting to wrap my head around one part of the Objective-C memory model (specifically on the iPhone, so no GC). My background is C/C++/Java, and I am having an issue with the following bit of code (also wondering if I am doing this in an "Objective-C way" or not): - (NSSet *) retrieve { NSMutableSet *set; set = [NSMuta...
I am trying to refresh a UITableView with new cells every 30 seconds. My array contains 30 elements, and for every new item I add to my array, I want to remove the last cell in my table. How can I go about doing this? ...
Hello, I'm building an application that uses a NSStatusItem and run in the background. The problem I'm running into is entering text into a NSTextField. I've got a menu item in my NSStatusItem which: [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES] [prefPanel makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil] It shows up fine, but when I try to enter text into the NST...
OK so I have two entities in my data model (let's say entityA and entityB), both of these entities have a to-many relationship to each other. I have setup a NSFetchedResultsController to fetch a bunch of entityA. Now I'm trying to have the section names for the tableview be the title of entityB. sectionNameKeyPath:@"entityB.title" N...
Hello community! I am a as3 developer, I am used to use handlers everytime I launch an event and I am wondering which is the best way / practice to do that in Objective C. Let's say I want to call a diferent services from my backend. In as3 would be something like this to listent to the finish event: service.addEventListener( Event....
I'm attempting to execute an uninstaller (written in AppleScript) through AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges. I'm setting up my rights after creating an empty auth ref like so: char *tool = "/usr/bin/osascript"; AuthorizationItem items = {kAuthorizationRightExecute, strlen(tool), tool, 0}; AuthorizationRights rights = {size...
How do I show a help popup window on the iPad? I want to show a modal popup window that grays out the background similar to the email applications "Compose New Mail" app. ...
I wrote a few iPhone apps using Core Data for persistent storage. Everything is working great but I would like to add the ability for users to back up their data to a PC (via WiFi to a PC app) or to a web server. This is new to me and I can't seem to figure out where to begin researching the problem. I don't want to overcomplicate th...
I'm getting this error: -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil Here is the .m file: /* IBOutlet NSTextField *textField; IBOutlet NSTabView *tableView; IBOutlet NSButton *button; NSMutableArray *myArray; */ #import "AppController.h" @implementation AppController -(IBAction)addNewItem:(id)sender { myArray...
I have a UITableViewCell that has some labels and images that can be clicked. I want to present a popover whenever a user clicks on any part of the cell. How can I achieve this without interfering with the click actions of the labels & images? I am currently creating an invisible button ontop of some other clickable items in the cell an...
Is it possible to perform an action when a UITableViewCell is highlighted? For example I have a UITableViewCell with clickable labels and buttons. I want to display a popover when the cell is highlighted/touched anywhere, so that the popover is shown without any interference with the labels & buttons. ...
I am trying to send a slider value from a controller object to a method of a model object. The later is implemented in the separate file and I have appropriate headers. I think the problem is that I am not sure how to instantiate the receiver in order to produce a working method for the controller. Here is the controller's method. -(I...
hello, i ve a string , for example: NSString *str = @"12,20,40,320,480" This str has to be given as buffer value, UInt8 *buffer; Now how to give the str as buffer value? The value of str string keeps changing , and hence buffer has to dynamically take the value as str everytime. plz help me how to achieve this. Thank You. ...
I have a table view with tall cells. About 300 in height. The cells are custom and have an associated nib. In cellForRowAtIndexPath, I access an object in an array using indexPath.row. The object has properties, which I assign to labels on the custom cell. This works fine for the first two cells. Once I scroll enough for the third ...
Currently I use NSUserDefaults and I'm interested in using NSUserDefaultsController, so that I get notifications when things change. Below is my current code. items = /* NSArray of MYItem's */; NSData* data = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:items]; [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:data forKey:kMYItems]; Ho...
Hi, I am trying to parse one XML file that contains some unicode characters.I tried to parse the file using NSXMLParser but i am unable to parse XML.Parser stops when it encounters any unicode characters. Is there any other good solution to parse XML file with unicode letters? Please suggest. Thanks, Jim. ...