objective-c

How can I locate the indexpath of the UITableviewCell a certain button is in when I click that button?

I've added a button as an accessory view to uitableviewcell, and I when I press it, I'd like to be able to access the index path of the table view cell it's currently inside of so I can delete/modify the contents of that cell. Should I subclass UIbutton and add make it have it's own index path property? If so, do I need to implement any ...

NSSegmentedControl -selectedSegment always returns 0

I have an NSSegmentedControl with two segments set to "Select None" mode in Interface Builder. No matter what I try, I can't get -selectedSegment to return anything but 0, even though segment 0 is even disabled by default and can't possibly be selected. Here's the relevant function that gets called when you click any segment on the contr...

How do I use objc_setAssociatedObject/objc_getAssociatedObject inside an object?

If I use objc_setAssociatedObject/objc_getAssociatedObject inside a category implementation to store a simulated instance variable in a setter method, how would I access the key in the getter method since any variables declared in the setter method would be outside the scope of the getter method? Edit: To clarify, if I were to use the ...

How to do a natural sort on an NSArray?

I've got an array of objects, and I need them sorted by their "title" key. It's currently working, though it's using an ASCII sort instead of a natural sort. The titles are filenames, so they look like this: file1 file2 file3 ... file10 file11 file12 I'm getting, as you would expect: file1 file10 file11 file12 file2 file3 ... Doe...

Creating an Objective-C++ Static Library in Xcode

So I've developed an engine for the iPhone with which I'd like to build a couple different games. Rather than copy and paste the files for the engine inside of each game's project directory, I'd a way to link to the engine from each game, so if I need to make a change to it I only have to do so once. After reeding around a little bit, ...

NSInvocationOperation and main thread

Imagine that I have a view with some UIKit object as its subview (for example, UIActivityIndicatorView - this doesn't matter). This view also has a selector, called doSomething, which somehow manages UIKit object (in our example it can start or stop indicator view). I create NSInvocationOperation (from view's code parts) with initWithTa...

objc[989] objc_exception_throw failed.

I was just adding some more CCSprites to a CCLayer and it just starts crashing giving me the error: objc[989] objc_exception_throw failed. Is there like a limit to the amount of CCSprites you can have on a screen or something? I added the CCSprites doing the following with the CCSprites already declared at interface: L1Circle1 = [CC...

Manipulating a NSTextField via AppleScript

A little side project I'm working on is a digital life assistant, much like project JARVIS. What I'm trying to do is speak to my mac, have my words translated to text and then have the text interpreted by my program. Currently, my app is very simple, consisting of a single window containing a single wrapped NSTextView. Using MacSpeech ...

What is the best way to create derived properties

I have a datamodel with to-many to-many relations. Using the example of employee database let say the entity division is related to department which in turn is related to employee. The employee has an attribute salary. How best to have a attribute at the level of division which is derived from the salary attribute. For example average sa...

Error Domain=SKErrorDomain Code=3 UserInfo=0x2a5a00 "Cannot connect to iTunes Store"

I am trying to implement InApp purchase in my application. I have implemented it as per Apple's programming guide and it(code) was working fine until I created new application, appid, provisioning profile and in-app products @ another developer account. Now, it gives me following error. Error Domain=SKErrorDomain Code=3 UserInfo=0x2a5a0...

objective-c singleton memory deallocation

Should I somehow release shared object (on which singleton is based) when my application terminates if no garbage collector used (iPhone environment)? ...

add button to navigationbar programatically

Hi i need to set the button on right side, in navigation bar, programatically , so that if i press the button i will perform some actions, i have created the navigation bar,programatically by navBar=[[UINavigationBar alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,44) ]; similarly i need to add the button , right side of this navigation bar,...

Detect if NSString contains a URL and generate a "link" to open inside the app a Safari View

I have am reading a twitter feed in my iPhone application and can do it correctly, but I'd like to evolve it in a way to detect if the whole NSString contains any URL or URLs and create a "link" that will open a UIWebView within the same application. Can you guide me on how to perform this task? -(void) setTextTwitter:(NSString *)text ...

a valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain

Hi i am a admin in apple developer and my profile my profile is deleted. now when we create new provisioning profile it give error "valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain ". certificate request in keychain is resisted with my profile. I am also developed new certificate request with new ap...

how to rotate quick time player when user move iphone

Hi I am new in iphone. I am add an my application MPMediaplayer for play video but when user move iphone from landscape to portrait play video can not play. How to do this plz help me. ...

How is the iPod app on the iPhone designed?

Is it just a tab-bar controller that loads some UITableViews that has navigation items set? Or is it a tab-bar controller that is loading a navigation controller? ...

Downside to including headers in every source file (Objective-C)

I'm currently including my AppDelegate.h and all of my category headers into every one of my source files using the MyApp_Prefix.pch prefix header, instead of manually #importing them only where they are used. The category methods and lots of compiler #define's in my app delegate are used in lots of places in my code. Is there any down...

Showing/Hiding windows iPhone Dev

In my iPhone app I am developing, I have defined two windows: @interface The_NoteAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate> { IBOutlet UIWindow *newNoteWindow; IBOutlet UIWindow *homeWindow; } @property (nonatomic, retain) UIWindow *newNoteWindow; @property (nonatomic, retain) UIWindow *homeWindow; and they are linked correctl...

Receiving Text From Another Application

Hi, I'm building some home automation software with Cocoa/Objective-C. The main application will have a minimal GUI and will most likely be represented by a status bar icon only. I'm using proprietary speech-to-text software (MacSpeech Dictate) that takes my voice command and converts it to plain text. I then need to send this plain te...

LLVM/Clang bug found in convenience method and NSClassFromString(...) alloc/release

I am analyzing Objective-C iPhone project with LLVM/Clang static analyzer. I keep getting two reported bugs, but I am pretty sure that the code is correct. 1) Convenience method. + (UILabel *)simpleLabel { UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 10, 200, 25)]; label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES; [label ...