objective-c

How do I programmatically duplicate UIViews built in interface builder?

I want to build up a sub-UIView in Interface Builder (contained within a UIScrollView) with some UILabels contained, I then want to programmatically "copy" this view adjust its left position (by multiples of its width) to achieve a "floating" left effect inside a UIScrollView. I then want to add this copied UIView back into the UIScrollV...

UITabBarController "More" tab issues

I've got a UITabBarController with 7 tabs. Each of the 7 tabs has its own UINavigationController and customizes its toolbar. When a view is loaded via the UITabBarController's "More" menu its custom toolbar isn't appearing. If i switch the order of the views around so that the same view is now accessible from the UITabBar without goin...

What is wrong with this code?

@protocol MyViewDelegate <NSObject> - (void) didFinishProcessing:(MyView*)myView; //compiler stops here with error @end @interface MyView : MySuperclass { id<MyViewDelegate> _delegate; } @property (nonatomic, retain) id<MyViewDelegate> delegate; @end When I try to compile I get " expected ')' before MyView ". Where is the er...

Help with pointers in Cocoa

I'm trying to make a simple calculator application in cocoa. The program hangs when I click on one of my buttons. I think I've traced the problem to the part of my controller that adds a digit to the end of the number currently on the display: - (void)updateNumber:(int)buttonClicked{ *self.activeNumberPointer = *self.activeNumberPoint...

Difference between [object variable] and object.variable in Obj-C?

I was working on a program today and hit this strange bug. I had a UIButton with an action assigned. The action was something like: -(void) someaction:(id) e { if ([e tag]==SOMETAG) { //dostuff } } What confuses me is that when I first wrote it, the if line was if (e.tag==SOMETAG) XCode refused to compile it, s...

how to enumerate all available Wifi networks at range?

I read on google that this is not possible, and that on OS 2.0, it was some undocumented Api to accomplish that, but then your app will got rejected .... we are almosto on OS 4.0....any news regarding this? ...

iphone NSMutableArray loses objects at end of method

Hello - in my app, an NSMutableArray is populated with an object in viewDidLoad (eventually there will be many objects but I'm just doing one til I get it working right). I also start a timer that starts a method that needs to access the NSMutableArray every few seconds. The NSMutableArray works fine in viewDidLoad, but as soon as that m...

Converting a constantly changing scalar value to a changing interval or frequency

Although I'm coding in Objective C, this is more of a general programming question. What is the best way to convert a constantly changing scalar value to a changing interval or frequency? Right now every time the scalar value changes I am destroying the NSInterval ie [self.myTimer invalidate]; self.myTimer = nil; and creating...

how do I take the URL and page title from a UITableView?

Hi I have an iPhone app that shows the user a UIWebView in the first view, what I am trying to do is allow the user to save what is essentially favorites to be saved and then displayed in a table view in the second view. To do this all i need is the page URL and also the Page Title to be saved to then populate the table view. Now here i...

Model-Controller cyclic reference/design problem

I have a CoreData entity X, and controllers for this entity, XController. Now there's another entity, XGroup, containing a collection of X entities, and a XGroupController. Now the problem is that XGroupController needs to interact with XController, and it would be nice to just pass XGroupController a XGroup to observe, and then get th...

Cocoa giving error: <Error>: doClip: empty path.

Coco gives error: Thu Jun 10 19:13:56 myComputer.local myApp[####] <Error>: doClip: empty path. But I don't have this function anywhere in my code (can't find by searching in frameworks / project)... Seems a lot of people complain about this because it goes into the console logs, but couldn't find any reason given as to what causes it...

iPhone SDK Tableview Datasource singleton error

I basically followed apple "TheElements" sample and changed "PeriodicElements" .h & .m to my own "SortedItems" .h & .m During compile I get this error: "Undefined symbols: "_OBJC_CLASS_$_SortedItems", referenced from: __objc_classrefs__DATA@0 in SortedByNameTableDataSource.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld retur...

Why does Custom UITableViewCell *sometimes* cause an NSInvalidArgumentException?

I have created a custom UITableViewCell, but when I dequeue the cell, sometimes it throws an NSInvalidArgumentException: [UITableViewCell nameLabel]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x3b4e7f0 Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '* -[UITableViewCell nameLabel]: unreco...

Object in Array is not recognised as having "methods"

I got my application working Awhile back, but after completely and accidentally deleting it, I have tried to create it from square one. unfortunately my rewritten program is a bit cranky; does anyone see or know the possible sources of error? Also, my if statements are acting up. -(void)loadAnnotations { CLLocationCoordinate2D worki...

if statement is giving me some trouble

For some reason, this if statement is giving me an "Expected : before ] token. if ([ [mine commodity] isEqualToString:@"Gold"] && [gold == YES]) { [tempMine setAnnotationType:iProspectLiteAnnotationTypeGold]; [mapView addAnnotation:tempMine]; } is there some typo here that I'm not seeing? ...

Hiding master view in split view app..???

Hello friends, I have created split view based ipad app, where master view is table view while Detail view display images.. I need to display the image fit to screen 100% in landscape mode. This could be on button event or double tap event.. Does any one know about it. Thanks in advance. ...

iPhone dev on Linux

Hi guyz, Actually I have read about that I can write Objective-C app on Linux (using GNUStep). But my question is, Am I will be able to develop completely iPhone app on Linux machine? Or I'll need eventually need to use Mac machine? Especially when I read that there are some some syntax diffs between NeXT/Apple and GCC (according to htt...

Simple libxml2 HTML parsing example, using Objective-c, Xcode, and HTMLparser.h

Please can somebody show me a simple example of parsing some HTML using libxml. #import <libxml2/libxml/HTMLparser.h> NSString *html = @"<ul><li><input type=\"image\" name=\"input1\" value=\"string1value\" /></li><li><input type=\"image\" name=\"input2\" value=\"string2value\" /></li></ul><span class=\"spantext\"><b>Hello World 1</b></...

problem with connection of facebook in my app for iPhone

hello I have complete code of facebook connection. But When i dragged the complete code into my application then 112 errors will occurs. wherever i have use use that code "FBConnect/FBConnectGlobal.h"Then error will arises "FBConnect/FBConnectionGlobal.h" No such file or directory. Even i have given all the path in project setting/proje...

How do I know when to increase or decrease angle to get a specific angle?

Hi. I am programming a game and I have come to a very hard spot. Basically I have a circle and I have 2 angles on this circle. Angle 1 (A) is a point I want angle 2 (B) to go to. During my game every frame I need to check weither or not to increase or decrease my angle value by a certain amount (speed) to eventually reach the first angle...