objective-c

iPhone Programming: Deactivate spell check in UITextView

UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo didn't work for me. I'm working on a crossword app for the iPhone. The questions are in UITextViews and I use UITextFields for the User-Input of each letter. By touching a question(UITextView), the TextField for the first answer char becomesFirstResponder. It all works fine but the UITextViews are still spell...

Parsing data in iphone

Hi all, I m using NSURLRequest to get and post data from server. but after processing returned is in html format how i parse it. Untitled Document 30 please give any refrence. i want use 30 in my code. ...

Find location of specific character in NSString

How can I find the location of a specific character in an NSString? I have tried this but it returns an empty range (I want to find the location of the '?'): NSRange range = [@"This is a ? test to see if it works" rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"?"]]; ...

Picking a Random Object in an NSArray.

Say I have an array with objects, 1, 2, 3 and 4. How would I pick a random object from this array? ...

what to learn to complete RSS Application of iPhone.

hi all, I am beggainer developer of iphone application so far i have develope a single iphone application which is not so bad Click here now I am developing iphone application for a website which is Clone of youtube. i have done the following task so far. videos are displayed in three categories i.e Latest,all,Feature with the he...

Providing API for communicating with a running application?

Basically I'm trying to find a solution to my issue with sharing an object. I've had a look at SpringBoard's implementation and it looks as if SpringBoard is providing a framework which can be used to retrieve SBDisplay objects (which are basically CALayers). I know this specific issue is related to iPhones, but I also know that this is...

NSManagedObjectContext: autoupdate or not?

Hi everybody, I need to understand something about NSManagedObjectContext update. I have a UISplitView with a UITableViewController on the RootView and a UIViewController on the Detail View. When I tap in a row with data, I load some data into labels and a UITextView where I can update that field: - (void)textViewDidEndEditing:(UITextVi...

What is the difference between @synthesize and @dynamic

I want to know what is the difference between @synthesize and @dynamic? I read about them in the documentation but could not glean too much from it. I just want a simple explanation for it. I will be greatful for any help. ...

UIScrollView- How far is it scrolled?

I'm using an UIScrollView and I have an image that indicates to the user that there is more content that they can scroll through vertically. I would like this image to be hidden when the scrollview is all the way at the bottom. Is there a way to do this? Would I have to subclass UIScrollView and make my own? ...

secondary thread with nsautoreleasepool

Hi, I call a function with performSelectorInBackground, and in this function, I declare NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; at the beginning [pool release]; at the end But in the console, I have this message: 2010-07-23 10:58:30.277 ProjetMission[5914:6913] void _WebThreadLockFromAnyThread(b...

UILongPressGestureRecognizer gets called twice when pressing down

I am detecting if the user has pressed down for 2 seconds: UILongPressGestureRecognizer *longPress = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleLongPress:)]; longPress.minimumPressDuration = 2.0; ...

How to create a Objective C class for Buffer

I am getting buffer with its length in a function (void)putEncodedData:(void *)data ofSize:(unsigned)size I want to create a custom class for this buffer data with name AudioData with variables data,size . How to set its @property attribues ? Please help me. Thanks in advance ...

Inserting NSData into SQLite on the iPhone

Hi all, So far I've managed to create this method for inserting into a SQLite database on the iPhone: - (void) insertToDB :(NSString *)Identifier :(NSString *)Name { sqlite3 *database; if(sqlite3_open([databasePath UTF8String], &database) == SQLITE_OK) { char *sql1 = "INSERT INTO table VALUES ('"; const cha...

Table View not displaying properly

I'm trying to use a table view inside a modalView and for some reason, despite doing this in IB: http://mike-pulsifer.org/images/IBissue1.png and (same location as above) IBissue3.png I get this instead: (same location as above) IBissue2.png Any thoughts as to what I did wrong? Thanks ...

iPhone Memory allocation problems

Within my application I have 20 or so ViewControllers and Xibs that the user should be able to access. The problem is after looking at 5 or so of them the application crashes due to lack of memory. I have released all memory that I have allocated within the ViewControllers so I can only assume it's because its holding the memory of so ma...

sqlite works on simulator, but not on device

Hi guys I have a question, I can't get my sqlite database to work/open on an ipad device. Everything works fine on the simulator but not a real device. I put MODE to NO when i want to test on a device but it fails to load. sqlite3 *database; if (MODE) { //Simulator result = sqlite3_open("/Users/userID/Myapp/VRdb.sqlite", &datab...

Cocoa equivalent to Java's Reader classes

In porting a Java program to Cocoa, I've come across the program using java.io.Reader and its subclasses. I'm not very familiar with what they do, so I can't find a good replacement. Does anyone have any good recommendations on replacements or do I have to rewrite it? ...

Creating NSArray of objects from a Text File.

I am trying to create an NSArray of Strings from a text file. Here's the code i've been using: NSString *title = @"facts"; NSString *type = @"txt"; NSString *seperation = @"/n"; NSMutableArray *factArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:[[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] ...

how to iterate nested dictionaries in objective-c iphone sdk

Hi I have a json string converted unsing the JSON framework into a dictionary and I need to extract its content. How could I iterate to the nested dictionaries? I have already this code that allows me to see the dictionary: NSDictionary *results = [responseString JSONValue]; NSMutableArray *catArray = [NSMutableArray array]; for (id k...

How can I get notified when it reaches a certain time of day in an iPhone application?

I am working on an application that needs a method to be called at a certain time (15 minutes past the hour to be exact). Is there a way to make this happen without consuming a ton of CPU and battery life? I've tried searching and just can't find an answer anywhere. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! ...