objective-c

BetterAuthorizationSample prompt not changing

I'm using BAS in a Cocoa app with a custom prompt for admin password... But now I want to change the prompt. I changed it in the strings file and it doesn't change. I rebuilt everything and deleted the sockets in /var/run and the launchdaemon and privelegedhelpertools folders. But the prompt just won't change!!! Help? ...

Test iPhone in-app purchases on a different bundle?

We have a group of beta testers for iPhone app. Recently, we added in-app purchases to the app. Before this, we would send out ad hoc builds to beta testers using a separate bundle ID and name so that they could have the store build and the ad hoc build on their phones. However, it seems like we have to build the ad hoc copy with the s...

iPhone Rendering Question

Hi all, I'm new to iPhone/Objective-C development. I "jumped the gun" and started reading and implementing some chapters from O'Reilly's iPhone Development. I was following the ebook's code exactly and my code was generating the following error: CGContextSetFillColorWithColor: invalid context CGContextFillRects: invalid context CGCont...

Noob Objective-C/C++ - Linker Problem/Method Signature Problem

There is a static class Pipe, defined in C++ header that I'm including. The static method I'm interested in calling (from Objective-c) is here: static ERC SendUserGet(const UserId &_idUser,const GUID &_idStyle,const ZoneId &_idZone,const char *_pszMsg); I have access to an objetive-c data structure that appears to store a copy of us...

iPhone apps: Webapps or native?

Hi all, I am planning to create an iPhone apps version for our online webapps. I am still new to iPhone apps development so I don't know whether to choose iPhone native or a webapps that runs on iPhone browser. The requirement is actually pretty basic. The iPhone apps need to submit data and get data from the database that is also use...

Unit Testing Model Classes that inherit from NSManagedObject

So...I'm trying to get unit tests set up in my iPhone App but I'm having some issues. I'm trying to test my model classes but they inherit directly from NSManagedObject. I'm sure this is a problem but I don't know how to get around it. Everything is building and running as expected but I get this error when calling any method on the...

How does Apple know you are using private API?

I only submit the binary file to Apple. I didn't submit any source code to Apple. Apart from manually check what you used. How Apple check what API you have called? How did Apple know? ...

Better product to develop for, iPad or Android based tablet in a purely business related application

Hey guys Just wondering what you'd suggest as the best platform for developing a business application for a tablet device. The application needs to be multitouch, have access to a maps API, a database on the device. It will not be going on sale in the app store or Androids market, it is purely for specific business task and not for ...

What is sender?

I can't find this answer anywhere. What does it mean when there's a sender parameter in a method header? Does it represent the instance that called it, or the method that called it? ...

"Single NSMutableArray" vs. "Multiple C-arrays" --Which is more Efficient/Practical?

Situation: I have a DAY structure. The DAY structure has three variables or attributes: a Date (NSString*), a Temperature (float), and a Rainfall (float). Problem: I will be iterating through an array of about 5000 DAY structures and graphing a portion of these onto the screen of the iPhone device using OpenGL. Question: As far as dra...

Remembering state: content offset and table cell reuse.

I have a tableview with cells that have a scrollview in them. The scrollview is paged, 2 pages to be exact, and is meant to be able to quickly compare two small blocks of text. I'm trying to find a way to remember what the content offset of the scrollview is. Cell reuse is killing me. I've tried resetting the offset in prepareForReuse ...

Avaudioplayer problem

Hi All, Actually i am using avaudioplayer. my player is working very fine (forward,revind,play,pause,volume,progress bar). Only problem is that i am not able to stop the song. so all songs are overlapped please any body tell me where i put [self.player stop] to stop my player when i play new song. ...

release viewcontroller after presenting modally

I was watching CS193P Stanford course on Itunes, and in one of the lectures a demo was given and There it was said you could present the viewcontroller modally and then release it. Roughly like this (I know this isn't perfect but I'm on my PC atm) [self.view presentcontentmodally:myVC] [myVC release]; However this seems to produce pr...

Sending data remotely from iPhone native apps to Rails apps

Dear all, I have decided to develop a native iPhone apps as a compliment to our webapps. Now I am wondering what are my options to send data remotely from the iPhone apps - since the database is online - to our online database. What I can think of on top of my head - since I come from web dev background - is JSON. My webapps is built us...

How to use NSTableView's selectedRowIndexes?

Hi guys, I'm just learning some basic programming in Objective C and Cocoa. I'm trying to get some data from NSTableView. Based on what I read in one tutorial, I wrote this: NSArray * items = [[itemsTableView selectedRowEnumerator] allObjects]; But then I learned that selectedRowEnumerator was deprecated already in 10.3 Panther and th...

My app crashes after multiple rotates

My app is crashing when I try and rotate it more than a couple of times. I first thought it was just the iPhone Simulator, so I loaded the app onto an iPod touch, and it crashed after fewer rotates in a row. I suspect it's a memory leak in one of my rotate methods. The only place I can think that the crash is being caused is in willRotat...

IKImageView, Buttons work intermittently in 10.5 but ok in 10.6

Hi all, In IB,I have connected some buttons to a IKImageView. Using its received Action 'ZoomIn:', 'ZoomOut:','ZoomImageToActualSize:' When I build for 10.6 I have no issues these work as expected. But in 10.5 (ppc), they sometimes work as expected and sometimes do not. I have even tried it programatically. But I get the same results. ...

How to set up a has-many relationship in Cocoa?

I'm building a (very) simple FTP app in Cocoa, and I need to store information on the different types of servers that are supported. So, I've created a ServerType class, which stores all of the relevant information about a single type of server. I then have a ServerTypes class which is designed to manage all of the ServerType classes tha...

Any way to find number of days in month using Objective C?

Instead of calculating the month and leap year to do this calculation. Is there any way to check using some Apple Internal APIs to do so? I found that the Java have something like this: calendar.getActualMaximum(calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) Is there any similar thing for Objective C? thz u. ...

Tracing memory leaks

My favorite candidate again. I am in the process of identifying memory leaks in my app (a puzzling challenge for a newbe like me). I am using the xCode leak analyzer, but what puzzles me is how to trace back a memory leak to its variable or value. Is there a pointer to the instances that have reserved a memory address where a leak is id...