objective-c

As-You-Type-Searching with Core Data / NSFetchedResultsController

I implemented an as-you-type-searching (text search on single attribute) by fetching with performFetch: after each given character by the user. The performFetch: is running in a background thread to avoid keyboard freezes. But while typing many useless fetches are started. A NSOperationQueue might be an option, but I wonder if there are...

Objective C Naming Convention for an object that owns itself

With the latest releases of XCode that contain static analyzers, some of my objects are throwing getting analyzer issues reported. Specifically, I have an object that owns itself and is responsible for releasing itself, but should also be returned to the caller and possibly retained there manually. If I have a method like + (Foo) newFo...

Re-Add tabBarController's view into window and the device is in landscape mode

Hello, I have an app that is a tabBarController based app. I have 4 tabs on it and one of these is for logging in/out in my app. The main ideea is that when I logout, I release the tabBarController (this will release the all 4 view controllers too - I have done this becuse I want to refersh all the views after logging out to look just...

Apple Itunes app limitations

I have a iphone game that i am creating and wanted to know a couple limitations once the person downloads the game and they sign in with a user name i want them to be able to download new content maps packs etc. What is the limit in size these downloads can be? where can this content be stored? thank you! ...

How do I send text to a UITextView?

I'm new to iphone development. I'm a VB programmer who is trying to convert a VB application to an ipad app. I need some help with sending text to a UITextView. I want to first have a UIPickerView and then once the user hits a UIButton, a UITextView appears and the text is then generated by my source code code, line by line. The code...

Can I just release the top object (iPhone)?

If I release the object that's holding a reference to the variable that I need to release, is that sufficient? Or must I release at every level of the containment hierarchy? I fear that my logic comes from working with a garbage collector for too long. For instance, I assigned to this property of a UIPickerView instance by hand instead ...

Number of rows returned in a sqlite statement

Is there any easy way to get the number of rows returned by a sqlite statement? I don't want to have to go through the process of doing a COUNT() first. Thanks. ...

In-app settings controlled by plist?

Is there a library or good tutorial which covers creating in-app settings, like this: http://img.skitch.com/20090625-s8bf6ahybwe3cesd1id38h3nt.jpg What I would like is if it: doesn't use the built-in Settings app, and does not replicate it's settings in the Settings app is controlled by a plist file with various Dictionaries and Array...

iPhone: UITableView not Displaying New Data After Call to reloadData

My problem is that the cell.textLabel does not display the new data following a reload. I can see the cellForRowAtIndexPath being called so I know the reloadData call goes thru. If I log the rowString I see the correct value so the string I set label text to is correct. What am I doing wrong? I have following code : - (UITableViewCell...

Changing UILabel over time?

I have a simple UILabel on that I want to change the text of every 10 seconds. What is the best way of doing this, which let's the rest of the interface remain active? ...

Load a file in a group objective-c Xcode

I'd like to load a file from a specific Group in Xcode/Objective-c for example: I have TWO files named "SomeFile.txt" that are in two different folders (folders not groups yet) in the OS: SomeFolderOne |- SomeFile.txt SomeFolderTwo |- SomeFile.txt Inner Xcode I make two folders, and I put a REFERENCE to these two files: SomeGroupOn...

C, Objective-C preprocessor output

Is there a way to get pre-processed C/Objective-C code? I have some files I acquired and would like to see the code produced by some #defines. ...

In Objective C, is there a way to call reference a typdef enum from another class?

It is my understanding that typedef enums are globally scoped, but if I created an enum outside of the @interface of RandomViewController.h, I can't figure out how to access it from OtherViewController.m. Is there a way to do this? So... "RandomViewController.h" #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> typedef enum { EnumOne, EnumTwo }EnumType; @i...

How to call PopOver Controller from UITableViewCell.accessoryView?

Hi, First I would like to say that I'm really new to ipad/ipod/iphone development, and to objective-c too. With that being said, I'm trying to develop a small application targeting the iPad, using Xcode and IB, basically, I have a table, for each UITableViewCell in the table, I added to the accessoryView a button that contains an image...

WSMethodInvocationSetCallBack symbol not found after importing files generated from WSMakeStubs

Hello, I am pretty new to Objective-C, and I am trying to write an iPhone app to call a simple web service. I used WSMakeStubs to point to my WSDL file, and it generated 4 files for me... WSGeneratedObj.h WSGeneratedObj.m CtServices2.h CtServices2.m I added only the WSGeneratedObj.h and WSGeneratedObj.m files into a new iPhone app,...

Looking for marg_setValue fix in iPhoneOS

I am trying to compile a library originally written for Cocoa. Things are good until it looks for the function marg_setValue(). It says there is a syntax error before char in marg_setValue(argumentList,argumentOffset,char,(char)lua_toboolean(state,luaArgument)); (it's talking about the third argument, not (char) ) I am trying to port...

How to unset delegate on UIView setAnimationDelegate: call?

I am receiving crash reports that appear to be from a UIView animation calling a delegate that has been dealloced. Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x334776f6 objc_msgSend + 18 1 UIKit 0x31c566c4 -[UIViewAnimationState sendDelegateAnimationDidStop:finished:] 2 UIKit ...

What kinds of questions are Technical Support Incidents for?

Last year I received two "Technical Support Incidents" in the iPhone developer program, but when I went to renew I found that I would lose them. I have another two for this year, but I'm not really sure about the kind of problems that can be solved by using them. What kinds of questions are the best use of these Technical Support Incid...

Using a C file in an xcode/objective-c project

I am making an iPhone app. I have a code that is in C. The C code contains a lot of pointers and global variables. I want to use this C code in my objective-c project. Can anybody please help me with this? ...

How to embed iPhone-Wax into app

Hello I have just learnt about iPhone-Wax (thanks to SO). Now the documentation is rather sparse for what I am trying to do. I want to embed it into an Objective-C app. I don't want it to be the main app. Has anyone done it and how can I achieve it? I would like to use it in the same way LuaObjectiveCBridge is used. ...