objective-c

iPhone locationServices: accuracy displayed incorrectly!?

Hi, everyone i've been trying to figure this out and i have absolutely no clue why this happens. Here is what i'm trying to do: I am building a little gps application and i want things like coordinates, altitude, speed, etc. displayed on my main view. I also want to show the current horizontal accuracy. I do this by using the "locatio...

Objective-C : Just another stupid properties question

In Objective-C properties you can set alternative names fpr the accessors. @property(setter=nameWrite:,getter=nameRead,copy) NSString *name; I am thinking real hard but I don't know any situation I would ever do that. It is not KVC standard and I see no advantage at all. What is the use of it? ...

Does anyone know of a wrapper for the Addressbook framework for iphone?

Anyone know of a wrapper for the AddressBook framework that makes it a bit friendlier to use? ...

how do i get the location of a touch in cocoa/objective-c?

I am looking to get the location of a touch, preferably corresponding to the pixels of the screen. I'm new to objective-c and cocoa and haven't been able to find anything on the web about this so i'm not sure if there is even a way to do it. any ideas or direction of where to look would be really helpful. thanks. ...

Is there a way to create a NIB file programmatically?

I know it is easy to create a NIB file easily with interface builder but I was wondering if there is a way to archive an existing UIView into a NIB for use later. It looks like a NIB file is just a special type of bundle where each of the UIView objects are archived using NSCoding but I cannot seem to find any more info beyond that. All...

UIImageView subclass not passing touches to controller subviews.

When I add a UIImageView subclass (fullscreen) behind a couple of UIButton subclass instances, those buttons stop receiving the touches and don't function anymore. Nothing I have tried has worked to restore their connectivity to user touches. I have tried: a) Using a UIImageView subclass for the front view (that receives the touches) an...

What calls tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath

All the cells in my table are blank. I noticed that tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath is not being called, which I think is causing this to happen. What calls this method? ...

Terminate Safari or Mail

Hello there, I am quite new here so I do not know many things. And the first thing I do not know is how to Terminate any running process programmatically, e.g. taping on the button; e.g. Mail or Safari. If it is possible, do not show me the whole code, just the proper way I have to try. Thanks. ...

IBoutlet , 2 Different ways to Write ?

Hi everyone, I am new to iPhone OS App development. Can somebody explain whats the difference between IBOutlet UIButton *myButton; @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIButton *myButton; As far i understand the first line was used earlier and now we can use the 2nd line. Theres absolutely no need to write both of them. Any ide...

How to save tab bar order when app is terminated?

The following example: http://www.raddonline.com/blogs/geek-journal/iphone-sdk-uitabbarcontroller-how-to-save-user-customized-tab-order/ Doesn't work in iOS4. I would like to be able to save the order of my tabs when the application is shut down. ...

How to "refresh" UIView

I have data being refreshed in a modalViewController and when that data gets refreshed, the parent controller needs to refresh its data as well. I tried doing a [tableView reloadData]; but it didn't work properly since the actual array values aren't being refreshed. Is there a way for me to reload a controller without the user seeing any...

Toggling UIWebView from Fullscreen back to UITabBarController

I'm going nuts trying to see what I'm doing wrong with this... I have an iPad app which runs only in landscape mode. I have a UITabBarController which holds a webview: [tabBarController setViewControllers: [NSArray arrayWithObjects:browserController, nil] animated:YES]; I have a UIButton that I want to be able to us...

Why is this an over-release of CTFrame

Working with some CoreText code on iOS and I am confused as to why this is an overrelease of the CTFrame. I have confirmed it is an over-release but I am baffled because it is created with a create method. for (NSValue *value in [self frameArray]) { CGRect column = [value CGRectValue]; CGMutablePathRef path = CGPathCreateMutable();...

How can I add a static background behind a UITableView programmatically?

I have a TableViewController and would like to have a static picture as a background, which doesn't scroll along. The way that everyone recommends using [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"backgroundPattern.png"]] doesn't work as it will 1.) move along and 2.) put the background pattern in every cell I know ho...

Error When adding Object to NSMutableArray

Hi all, I am getting errors when trying to add items to a NSMutableArray which is encapsulated within an object. Code follows: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface TestObject : NSObject { NSMutableArray *myArray; } @property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableArray *myArray; @end #import "TestObject.h" @implementation Te...

UILongPressGestureRecognizer missing UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan state!

so I have implemented a 1-finger long-press gesture recognizer, but the recognizer always seems to be missing the UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan state... If I long press w/o moving finger and lift, I get the StateEnded debug message. If I long press and move finger a bit then lift, I get the StateChanged and StateEnded debug messages. But...

(cocos2d) "invalid context" error with CCLabel initialization

I'm trying to call the labelWithString function and I'm getting the following run-time errors: Error: CGContextSetGrayFillColor: invalid context 0x0 Error: CGContextTranslateCTM: invalid context 0x0 Error: CGContextScaleCTM: invalid context 0x0 This is the line of code that I tracked it down to: self.label = [CCLabel labelWithString...

Iphone opengl es - glu, glPushName

Using Iphone and Objective C Im trying to find what plane has been clicked/touched in my opengl view. Typically i would use glPushName/ flPopName but this function doesn't seem to be implemented in the sdk or defined in . Does anyone know where to get there useful functions or another way to get the object that was clicked? ...

Core Data tags schema?

I am new to Core Data and trying to think of the simplest and / or most performant way to implement a tags feature for items in Core Data. I am still wrapping my head around the fundamental differences between core data and the sql server I am used to. Has anyone done this? Or have any suggestions of a solid implementation for this? ...

Pass an int between a view and it's subview

I have a view called PatternsViewController and a subview named SolutionsViewController. I want to pass a variable in PatternsViewController named iteration to my SolutionsViewController, right before I present it with solutions = [[SolutionsViewController alloc] init]; solutions.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolv...