objective-c

Object pointer value as key into dictionary

I want to use the object's reference value as a key into a dictionary, as opposed to a copy of value of the object. So, I essentially want to store an object associated with a particular instance of another object in a dictionary and retrieve that value later. Is this possible? Is it completely against the idea of NSDictionary? I can te...

iPhone: error: request for member 'table' in something not a structure or union

Hi there, When it comes to compiling my application, I get the error mentioned in the title. How would I go about remedying this error? Basically, I want to get from one table to the other. Hierarchy, navigation. NextViewController.m #import "RootViewController.h" #import "NextViewController.h" @implementation NextViewController - ...

Passing NSArray Pointer Rather Than A Pointer To a Specific Type

I've just written a piece of code to display a UIActionSheet within my app. Whilst looking at the code to initialise my UIActionSheet something struck me as a little strange. The initialisation function has the following signature... initWithTitle:(NSString *)title delegate:(id UIActionSheetDelegate)delegate cancelButtonTitle:(NSStrin...

How can I get user's email? iPhone SDK

Hi! I need to get an user's email address that used in Mail.app. How can I do it with the iPhone SDK? Thank you! ...

How do I dynamically define an instance variable?

Hi everyone, I have two classes (class1 and class2) that just store data, no methods. I have a third class that has an instance variable that, depending on some user input, will be set to one of the two classes. So, in the third class I declare the variable generically as NSObject *aClass; and during runtime set it to whatever it sh...

iPhone/Objective-C struct question my own CGRectZero

I am designing a Padding struct as follows: /* Padding. */ struct CGPadding { CGFloat left; CGFloat top; CGFloat right; CGFloat bottom; }; typedef struct CGPadding CGPadding; CG_INLINE CGPadding CGPaddingMake(CGFloat left, CGFloat top, CGFloat right, CGFloat bottom) { CGPadding p; p.left = left; p.top = top; p.right = right; p.bott...

iPhone - Strike out an NSString

Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is an easy way to strike/cross out some text on the iPhone? Thanks ...

How can I access the int values of an object in an NSMutableArray?

I try to access some values in a NSMutableArray I created, but I only get some numbers (address?) if I try to access them. I was able to initialize an array and can add and change objects with [myNSMutableArray addObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:10]] and [myNSMutableArray replaceObjectAtIndex:0 withObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:47] ...

Async call Objective C iphone

Hi guys, I'm trying to get data from a website- xml. Everything works fine. But the UIButton remains pressed until the xml data is returned and thus if theres a problem with the internet service, it cant be corrected and the app is virtually unusable. here are the calls: { AppDelegate *appDelegate = (AppDelegate *)[[UIApplicatio...

Is there a way to force CoreImage to use the GPU?

We are having the following problem: a series of Core Image filters runs constantly in our program. When evaluating on my Macbook Pro, Core Image decides to schedule all graphics computation on the GPU, as expected. When using a MacPro, however, CI uses the CPUs! This is a problem, as we need them for other processing. [1] The question ...

Learning Objective-C. Using Xcode 3.2.1. What is error: Program received signal: “EXC_ARITHMETIC”.

I am learning Objective-C using Stephen Kochan's excellent book "Programming in Objective-C 2.0". I am new also to Xcode. So far all my exercises have worked fine, but when I run program 7.6 FractionTest on page 153 I get the console message "Program received signal: "EXC_ARITHMETIC". The status shows that the program succeeded, but I do...

"The binary you uploaded was invalid. the file was not a valid zip file" Error message uploading app to iTunes Connect

Hi, I'm trying to upload an iPhone app binary to iTunesConnect and keep getting the following error message "The binary you upload was invalid. the file was not a valid zip file". I had an app upload ok recently but this app is having problems. So after a while I carefully went through the following steps trying to make sure everything w...

ObjC internals. Why my duck typing attempt failed?

I've tried to use id to create duck typing in objective-c. The concept looks fine in theory but failed in practice. I was unable to use any parameters in my methods. The methods were called but parameters were wrong. I was getting BAD_ACESS for objects and random values for primitives. I've attached a simple example below. The question:...

Can't get NSDate to work correctly

Hello, having a strange issue, must be something I'm just not seeing. I set up a variable in the .h NSDate *checkIn; @property (nonatomic, retain) NSDate *checkIn; I'm setting a variable to todays date in the initWithNibName: checkIn = [NSDate date]; I also did synthesized it as well. Now later on in my program I use it to build ...

Where is my object allocation and memory leak in this iPhone/objective C code?

Hello, I'm still a rookie when it comes to this programming gig and was wondering if someone could help me smooth out this code. Functionally, the code works great and does what I need it to do. But when I run the performance tool the allocation graph peaks, the CPU load is high, there's a leak(s), and I've also confirmed when running on...

Read Text File in Document Folder - Iphone SDK

Hello everyone I have this code below: NSString *fileName = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"recentDownload"]; NSString *fullPath = [NSBundle pathForResource:fileName ofType:@"txt" inDirectory:[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/Documents/"]]; NSError *error = nil; [textViewerDownload setText...

NSFetchedResultsController crashing on performFetch: when using a cache

I make use of NSFetchedResultsController to display a bunch of objects, which are sectioned using dates. On a fresh install, it all works perfectly and the objects are displayed in the table view. However, it seems that when the app is relaunched I get a crash. I specify a cache when initialising the NSFetchedResultsController, and when ...

How do I use an indeterminate status indicator as the image for an NSStatusItem?

I have an application that is an NSStatusItem. It has a few different modes, each of which require an external process to be launched, during which the icon is simply highlighted, and appears to be frozen. I want to use the -setImage: method (or reasonable facsimile) to display something along the lines of a "spinner" commonly seen in ...

cannot upgrade current target for ipad

Hi everyone, i try to upgrade my old existing app to make it a universal application for iphone and ipad. i clicked on my target and tryed to select "upgrade current target for ipad", but i cannot click it, because its not clickable. my project settings are: The Base SDK is set to iPhone Device 3.2 The iPhone OS Deployment Target ...

problem with kCFSocketReadCallBack

Hello. I have a problem with my program. I created a socket with "kCFSocketReadCallBack. My intention was to call the "acceptCallback" only when it receives a string to the socket. Instead my program does not just accept the connection always goes into "startReceive" stop doing so and sometimes crash the program. Can anybody help? Thanks...