objective-c

How to set scrollView delegate from a UITableView?

I have a UITableViewController that contains a tableView. I want to set its scrollView delegate to self, but I am not sure how to do that? if i call [self.tableView.delegate = self] It will set the UITableViewDelegate to self, and not the UIScrollViewDelegate ...

intialization with a nibFIle failed

Hi, I have a problem. I try to initialize a variabile in a classViewController created inside a xib file. I try with the code below but when i append a object to array, these array isn't initialized. Can you help me? thanks and sorry for my english. #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface AccelerometroViewController : UIViewController <UIAc...

UIPageControl design challenge

My app has a UITabBarController that loads many different UINavigationControllers. I want a UIPageControl to switch between the different UINavigationControllers. Do I place the UIPageControl in my UINavigationController or in my appDelegate? Suggestions and best practices are welcome. ...

iPhone - nested views & controllers

Is it possible to have a single iPhone screen with its view loaded from a xib by that screen's UIViewController, but then another UIView within that screen with content loaded from a separate xib file? If so, is it possible to have that nested view's events handled by a separate custom UIViewController subclass from the rest of the scre...

NSMutableString leaks on append or replaceOccurrencesOfString

Hello Folks, I know similar questions have been asked time and time again but I ask that you please bear with me as I cannot seem to find an answer that helps. My application has leaks that are driving me out of my mind. Actually, they are not reported as leaks using Leaks, but my net bytes in ObjectAlloc goes up and up and up and neve...

Adding an NSTextField as a subview

I'm trying to add an NSTextField as a subview of a custom view class I have (which subclasses NSView), and then make the text field the first responder. This works fine... the text field shows up and I can start typing in it. However, any mouse events in the text field seem to fall through to its superview. For example, I can't see th...

"Finding" an object instance of a known class?

My first post here (anywhere for that matter!), re. Cocoa/Obj-C (I'm NOT up to speed on either, please be patient!). I hope I haven't missed the answer already, I did try to find it. I'm an old-school procedural dog (haven't done any programming since the mid 80's, so I probably just can't even learn new tricks), but OOP has my head sp...

Functions as pointers in Objective-C

This is a question from Learn Objective-C on the Mac... Functions as pointers What I typed in, as per the recipe, was: NSString *boolString (BOOL yesNo) { if (yesNo) { return (@"YES"); } else { return (@"NO"); } } // boolString The pointer asterisk in the first line doesn't seem necessary, yet deleting it results in an error message...

Processing potentially large STDIN data, more than once

I'd like to provide an accessor on a class that provides an NSInputStream for STDIN, which may be several hundred megabytes (or gigabytes, though unlikely, perhaps) of data. When a caller gets this NSInputStream it should be able to read from it without worrying about exhausting the data it contains. In other words, another block of co...

longitude and latitude for current location returned from CLLocationManager in UK region is not correct

Hi I am getting latitude and longitude of current location from CLLocationManager delegate method. It works fine for some region but its giving problem in UK region. When it is used in UK region, the current location longitude and latitude returned from CLLocationManager is not proper. Thanks heres a part of the logic i am using. -(...

Managing a user's PHP session with Cocoa Touch

I'm building an iPhone app, which will allow users to log in to a PHP web server that authenticates the user and starts a session. My idea for managing a session is to create a singleton User class that has a sharedLogin method. Would it be prudent to store the session variable in the shared instance in order to maintain the session? ...

NSThread terminating too early

I have an app that uploads to Google Spreadsheets via the GData ObjC client for Mac/iPhone. It works fine as is. I'm trying to get the upload portion on its own thread and I'm attempting to call the upload method on a new thread. Look: -(void)establishNewThreadToUpload { [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(uploadToGoogle)...

how to change the date format in the objective-c

after selecting the date from the date picker, i am getting the date in the format in view like yy/mm/dd . i want to the date format in my view like mm/dd/yy. how can i do this. ...

Should I return an NSMutableString in a method that returns NSString

Ok, so I have a method that takes an NSString as input, does an operation on the contents of this string, and returns the processed string. So the declaration is: - (NSString *) processString: (NSString *) str; The question: should I just return the NSMutableString instance that I used as my "work" buffer, or should I create a new NSS...

UItableView Reload Problem

Hello All, I am using a UiTableView in our application.We have two tabs in controller one is add to shopping list where i add more than one items in our shopping list in database,other one is shopping list which shows items for shopping. The problem is that when i add items from shopping list tab then items are successfully added in da...

i want to add the undo button in my iphone app, how can i do this ?

i am using he quartz for drawing the image in my view and now i want to add the undo button in my toolbar button on myipad app. what is code or any example of doing this. ...

iphone getting hours/min/seconds app crashes.

i have this code in my overridden drawRect method NSDate *date = [NSDate date]; NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar]; unsigned int unitFlags = NSHourCalendarUnit|NSMinuteCalendarUnit|NSSecondCalendarUnit; NSDateComponents *comp = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:date]; NSInteger h = [comp h...

objective c NSURL may not respond to +initFileURLWithPath

I have two lines of code in the applicationDidFinishLaunching function: NSString *targetFilePath = @"/Users/bob/Documents/About_Stacks.pdf"; NSURL *targetFileURL = [NSURL initFileURLWithPath:targetFilePath]; and I am getting the warning (title) in the second line... I have no idea what I am doing wrong. This is an absurdly simply app...

How can I move the clear button in a UITextField?

For some reason, when I add a UITextfield as a subview of the contentview of a tablecell, the clearbutton does not align with the text typed in the field, and appears a bit underneath it. Is there any way I can move the text of the clearbutton to stop this from happening? Thanks for any help, ...

Remove only first instance of a character from a list of characters

Hi All, Here's what I want to do. I have 2 strings and I want to determine if one string is a permutation of another. I was thinking to simply remove the characters from string A from string B to determine if any characters are left. If no, then it passes. However, I need to make sure that only 1 instance of each letter is removed (no...