objective-c

Core Data-Linking one-to-many relationships

I have a one-to-many relationship where each department has many employees. When I create a new employee object I just link it to the parent department manually by setting the property to the instance of the department I have fetched from my fetch request. However, this seems to be improper because when I try to access the set of employ...

Initializing Detail View from nib with parameters passed from Root View

I'm have a map view with a number of annotations on it... once the callout is clicked, i need to pass several parameters to the DetailViewController, so ive been trying to do this through the constructor. I've debugged a bit and discovered that the arguments are being passed properly and are being received as expected within the constru...

Doxygen including methods twice doc files

I'm having this issue where doxygen is adding the method twice in the documentation file. Is there a setting that stops auto-generation of documentation for methods within the .m file. For example in the documentation I'll see something like whats below where the first definition of + (Status *)registerUser is from the header XXXXXX.h...

iPad App design decision

I would like to develop a reader app for viewing and manipulating proprietary format documents. The documents are 2D. (Might add some cool page flip effects) The interface is similar to that of mobile safari. I'm trying to decide whether to write this in Quartz2D or OpenGL ES. I have no prior experience with either of those. Any suggesti...

UIActivityIndicatorView in a class without a view

Hi I have defined a class that does a lengthy task and I call it from several other classes. Now I want to show an Activity Indicator while this task is doing it's thing, and then remove it once it's done. Since this is just a boring background task, this class doesn't have a view, and I guess that is where I run into my problem. I can'...

Gravatar XML-RPC request problem in Objective-C

Hi all, I'm trying to incorporate some Gravatar functionality using its XML-RPC API in an iPhone app I'm writing. I grabbed the Cocoa XML-RPC Framework by Eric Czarny (http://github.com/eczarny/xmlrpc) and it works well when I tested it with some of the Wordpress methods. However, when I try to use the Gravatar API, I always receive a...

iPhone time comparison

I am trying to figure out how to create an 'if' statement that uses a time value as a condition. For example: if (time <= 10:00) { score = 3; } else if (time <= 20:00) { score = 5; } else { score = 9; } I know that a string of "5:23" cannot be compared this way but I don't think I can just turn a string value l...

iphone storing password locally and sending it across to a server securely

I am writing an iPhone app which will start with asking the user to register with a login/passwd. These should be : Saved securely locally Send securely to a remote web-server What do I need to achieve the above? Say, for local storage, shall I save them in a file or database? Shall I encrypt it? For sending it over, is HTTPS suffici...

How to solve Memory leaks in Lib Xml Parser in objective-C where the list is returned?

Hi Guys, I got leaks in Lib Xml Parser while retrieving the data from the net, Here in the below code, I have allocated the list - (void)getCustomersList { // make an operation so we can push it into the queue SEL method = @selector(parseForData); NSInvocationOperation *op = [[NSInvocationOperation alloc] initWithTarget:self selector...

Error while loading UIWebView

Hi all, I have created a UIWebView using interface builder. When I load the webview with loadRequest method, I get an error as below "<Error>: CGImageSourceGetType image source parameter is nil" What is this error due to ?? Thanks. ...

Objective-C runtime reflection (objc_msgSend): does it violate the iPhone Developer License Agreement?

Does code like this (potentially) violate the iPhone Developer License Agreement? Class clazz = NSClassFromString(@"WNEntity"); id entity = [clazz entityWithImage:@"Icon.png"]; SEL setPositionSelector = NSSelectorFromString(@"setPosition:"); objc_msgSend(entity, setPositionSelector, CGPointMake(200, 100)); I'm working on code that dyn...

declaration a @protocol in objective-c

hello all what means a word "USING" in declaration of @protocol the declaration is @protocol name USING // declaration of methods @end thank for all conributters ...

Storing unique ID in UITableViewCell

I have a table where there will often be two cells with the same title. I'm zooming in on a map whenever a cell in the table is clicked, so using the title as a unique identifier is out of the question. I already have a unique identifier, but I need to find a way to store it in a UITableViewCell object. I have been considering two opt...

method vs function vs procedure vs class ?

I know the basics of this methods,procedures,function and classes but i always confuse to differentiate among those in contrast of Object oriented programming so please can any body tell me the difference among those with simple examples ? ...

Leaks in passing the request using URL at NSString, Objective-C.

Hi Guys, I getting the leak in this method even the allocated nsstring is released. Now I am taken stringWithFormat, but still it is showing the leak at "NSData *returnData=...." line -(BOOL)getTicket:(NSString*)userName passWord:(NSString*)aPassword isLogin:(BOOL)isLogin { NSString* str=@""; if (isLogin == YES) { str =[NSString strin...

Why Should I Use Retain With Convenience Methods?

Hi, I am using the this code in my iPhone application: UIButton * MyButton=[UIButton ButtonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundRect]retain]; If I don't use this retain will my app crash? What is the function of this retain? ...

How can I run Gcov over an installed Cocoa application?

I have a Cocoa application which uses an installer. I want to be able to run code coverage over the code (after it has been installed). This is not the usual unit-test scenario where a single binary will run a suite of tests. Rather, the tests in question will interact with the UI and the app back-end whilst it is running, so I ideally ...

Concatenating a string with the value of a NSTextField results in odd symbols in Objective-C

I'm in my second day of learning Objective-C, Cocoa and IB. This is probably something really simple but I cannot work it out. Basically, I have a form with a NSTextField, when the user types in this field and clicks an OK button the application will display an alert saying Hello followed by the value of text field. It's all working ap...

iphone SDK confusion

Hi I accidentally deleted my sdk 3.0 directory, thinking I didn't need it. Now when I launch and compile a project it says that my base sdk is missing. Where can I download the 3.0 sdk? All that is available in Dev Center are the 3.2 and 4 beta sdks? ...

steganography library in C or Obj-C

Hey, Does anyone know of a good steganography library I can use thats written in C or Objective-C? It would need to be used in a Mac OS X application. ...