objective-c

Why do I have a memory leak in UIApplication

I have an iphone app project. I analysed it using instruments memory leak tool. According to instruments I have 2 leaks the Trace is as follows: start main UIAplicationMain _run CFRunLoopInMode CFRunLoopRunSpecific PurpleEventCallback _UIAplicationHandleEvent sendEvent: handleEvent:withNewEvent: After this trace there are two separat...

Cant access NString after callback in [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest]

Hi I am trying to get a cookie from a site which I can do no problem. The problem arises when I try and save the cookie to a NSString in a holder class or anywhere else for that matter and try and access it outside the delegate method where it is first created. - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLRe...

Wanting a simple overview on how to connect to a SQLite database in Cocoa/Objective-C

Hi, everyone. I've been experimenting with Cocoa and Objective-C programming on the Mac for a few months now, and I am wanting to start developing applications that manage large amounts of data. The trouble is, I'm not really sure where to start with databases. I have a good background in Java programming with SQLite. I've read a bit a...

How to manage memory load of static, lazily loaded dictionaries and arrays.

Generally, I use static arrays and dictionaries for containing lookup tables in my classes. However, with the number of classes creeping quickly into the hundreds, I'm hesitant to continue using this pattern. Even if these static collections are initialized lazily, I've essentially got a bounded memory leak going on as someone uses my ...

Performance issue finding weekdays over a given period

I have some methods that return the number of weekdays between two given dates. Since calling these methods become very expensive to call when the two dates lie years apart, I'm wondering how these methods could be refactored in a more efficient way. The returned result is correct but I feel that the iphone processor is struggling to ke...

What to do with CSV after export on the iPhone?

One of the requested features for my apps is to have an export feature. Most of the time the data is table-like in nature. As an example, users might enter every day what types of food they ate that day, and how many portions of each food type. As the data is table-like, I figure the most useful for export would be into CSV format. Then ...

UITableViewCell no userInteraction but on cell.accessoryView

hello genius and nerds I have a TableViewCell with a UISwitch in accessoryView. I don't want that blue background if someone selected it. There fore i used cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO; but then the whole cell isnt accessable so i tried that cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO; cell.accessoryView.userInteractionEnabled = YES; i t...

DeviceOrientation Check in AppDelegate

Hi, I created a view in the AppDelegate, that I add to the window like this:[window addSubview:myView]; I wanna be able to check for the device orientation everytime I come back to this view, so I can make some modifications to it. How can I do that in the appDelegate? ...

Creating a "permanent" Cocoa object

I have an object factory that hands out instances of a few "constant," immutable objects. I'd like these objects to be protected against bad memory management by clients. This is how I've overridden the class's key methods. Am I missing anything (code or other considerations)? - (id)retain { return self; } - (NSUInteger)retainCount...

Core Plot never stops asking for data, hangs device

I'm trying to set up a core plot that looks somewhat like the AAPLot example on the core-plot wiki. I have set up my plot like this: - (void)initGraph:(CPXYGraph*)graph forDays:(NSUInteger)numDays { self.cplhView.hostedLayer = graph; graph.paddingLeft = 30.0; graph.paddingTop = 20.0; graph.paddingRight = 30.0; graph...

Objective-C error... Cannot convert to pointer type (int)

I am attempting to use the TouchXML library and followed the example with the following code for (CXMLElement node in nodes) { NSMutableDictionary *item = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; int counter; for (counter = 0; counter < [node childCount]; counter++ ) { [item setObject:[[nod...

Array of NSButton

I wonder if I can do something like IBOutlet NSButton * aButton[100]; It turns out that aButton cannot be seen in the interface builder. My app has lots of buttons and I want to see if there are way I can use looping to iterate the state of all buttons. ...

How to convert Unicode strings (\u00e2, etc) into NSString for display?

I am trying to support arbitrary unicode from a variety of international users. They have already put a bunch of data into sqlite databases on their iPhones, and now I want to capture the data into a database, then send it back to their device. Right now I am using a php page that is sending data back to from an internet mysql database. ...

iPhone Wax accessing already instantiated classes

I am trying to access already instantiated OBjC classes via Lua. How can I do it? ...

how to create custom touch event and action

Hi i am new iphone i want to developing a application that is work on touch event. in this when user touch on screen then show a label msg u touch on right and same. how to do this i im confused plz tell me. ...

Is it possible to invoke NSDictionary's valueForKeyPath: when a key contains periods?

I'm trying to get the value of the repeatInterval key in the com.apple.scheduler plist. I'd like to just use NSDictionary's valueForKeyPath: method like so: CFPropertyListRef value; value = CFPreferencesCopyValue(CFSTR("AbsoluteSchedule"), CFSTR("com.apple.scheduler"), kCFPre...

why can't I set a new instance's delegate as self?

I have a uipickerview, which appears with an ActionSheet. All this is in a class "MultiPicker". I create a new instance from "FirstViewController" this way: multiPicker *multiPic = [[multiPicker alloc]init]; multiPic.delegate = self; [multiPic action:aRunIndex]; And inside "multiPicker", in "action:" UIActionSheet *actionSheet ...

subview is not added immediately (iphone)

When the return button on the keyboard for a textfield is tapped I want to add a UIView, then connect to a website with NSURlConnection sendsynchronousrequest and I have the code in that order But when I run in the simulator (I can't run on device) the connection is run first then the subview is added (ie the opposite of the order of the...

How can I know which button I clicked to start an action inside the program?

I have 3 buttons which call the same function. I want to know inside the function which button called it. Is it possible to know it? ...

ViewController is leaving 20px white from lower part of screen when pushed

I am using multiple controller during launch of an application in app delegate. One controller is for registration and the second controller is tabbar. tabbar was loading fine but when I pushed registration controller on window, contents went up by 20 units and I have good white blank screen at bottom. Therefore I recreated frame of my r...