Blurry UILabel text as programmatic subview of UITableViewCell's contentView

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am adding a UILabel instance as a subview of my custom UITableViewCell instance's contentView property. When I select the cell, the row is highlighted blue, except for the background of the label. The label text is sharp, but the background is white for the bounds of the contentView. When I

NSFetchedResultController bug?

2009-10-13 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am reworking Apple's CoreDataBooks sample iPhone application to add five relationship-less instances of an NSManagedObject class ("Book"). When I add these to a secondary managed object context (MOC) and then merge these changes with the primary MOC, the application crashes with the follo

Illegal attempt to establish a relationship 'xyz' between objects in different contexts

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am using the CoreDataBooks sample application as a basis for pulling data into a secondary managed object context in the background, and then merging that data into the primary managed object context. The data I am pulling in is a Book entity with a to-one relationship with an Owner entit

Re: Does Core Data have reserved Entity names?

2009-09-30 Thread Alex Reynolds
On Sep 30, 2009, at 4:04 AM, I. Savant wrote: Whatever the answer, the simple solution is to change your entity's name. Unfortunately, that simple solution means parting ways with the naming scheme of the source I'm pulling data from and changing the naming scheme for all my other entiti

Does Core Data have reserved Entity names?

2009-09-30 Thread Alex Reynolds
After I added an Entity called "Object", I get the following message when executing my application on the iPhone: objc[4219]: Class Object is implemented in both /usr/lib/ libobjc.A.dylib and /var/mobile/Applications/BFDFC14C-DB60-44BB-8118- D2AAB39E2EE6/MyApp.app/MyApp. One of the two will b

What is the best way to call parent view controller methods from within child view controller?

2009-09-19 Thread Alex Reynolds
I have a view hierarchy managed with UINavigationController, of the form A -> B, where A and B are UIViewController subclasses. When I am in the B view, I have a backBarButtonItem in the navigation bar that will pop the application back to the A view, when selected. The title of the backBar

Re: Core Data fetch with to-many relationship

2009-09-09 Thread Alex Reynolds
-11-10 00:02:35 -0800 Owner < 123456 | username > >, Book < name: myPrefix-v2 creationDate: 2008-11-09 23:58:36 -0800 Owner < 123456 | username > > )} -- -Alex On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Alex Reynol

Re: Core Data fetch with to-many relationship

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Reynolds
is: -- {( "myPrefix-v1", "myPrefix-v2" )} -- Should I be using a different predicate to retrieve Book objects with the names "myPrefix-v1" and "myPrefix-v2"? Regards, Alex On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Melissa J. Turner wrote: O

Core Data fetch with to-many relationship

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am having trouble fetching results with a to-many relationship and would like to ask for advice. I have two NSManagedObject subclasses: Owner and Book. There is a one- to-many relationship between Owner and Book (an Owner can be associated with many Books). @interface Owner : N

subclassing with conditional method overriding

2009-09-05 Thread Alex Reynolds
Let's say I have a class interface and implementation, as follows: --- @interface A : NSObject { ... } - (void) handleTask; @end @implementation A ... - (void) handleTask { // do stuff specific to A object type... } --- Let's say I then subclass A and override -handleTask: --- @interface

NSString -initWithData:encoding returning nil

2009-09-04 Thread Alex Reynolds
I have the following method, which digests a string with the SHA-1 algorithm: - (NSString *) HMACSHA1DigestWithSecretKey:(NSString *)secretKey { unsigned char digest[CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH]; char *keyCharPtr = strdup([secretKey UTF8String]); char *dataCharPtr = strdup([self UTF8String]);

How to use NSString with CommonCrypto HMAC correctly?

2008-12-13 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am trying to use the HMAC SHA-1 components of Apple's CommonCrypto library with NSStrings, and I am running into some difficulty. I have the following method: - (NSString *) hmacSha1:(NSString *)key data:(NSString *)data { unsigned char digest[CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH] = {0};

Re: Getting NSTimer to work after an NSThread completes?

2008-10-07 Thread Alex Reynolds
On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Jason Coco wrote: [[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] addTimer:myNSTimer forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode]; Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, this did not work. The 'myNSTimer' never fires. As a workaround, I tried to update the new view with: [NSThread detachNe

Getting NSTimer to work after an NSThread completes?

2008-10-07 Thread Alex Reynolds
When I press my interface button, it calls: [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(initializeData) toTarget:self withObject:nil]; This calls: - (void) initializeData { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; ... initi

CGLayer questions

2008-09-23 Thread Alex Reynolds
Is it possible to take a CGLayer and turn it into a bitmap representation? Also, is it possible to grab a CGRect "subset" of a CGLayer and append that to a new CGLayer, so that it isn't necessary to recalculate the entirety of a new CGLayer? Thanks, Alex __

Re: BOOL array

2008-09-15 Thread Alex Reynolds
ciate all the advice. -Alex Kyle Sluder wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Alex Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any downsides to creating Cocoa-based applications in Objective C++? If you're switching to Objective-C++ just to get std::vector, I would strongly

Re: BOOL array

2008-09-15 Thread Alex Reynolds
> > Of course there's always std::vector< bool > ;-) usually at 1 bit per > bit... > > -- > Scott Ribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.killerbytes.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice Thanks for the tip. So I ended up going the route of making my .m files into .mm files, and using std::vector< vector > t

NSUInteger in for-loop?

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Reynolds
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Re: NSUInteger in for-loop?

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Reynolds
The %lu with casting seems to run into the same issue as %u: ... 2008-09-14 21:43:07.241 NSUIntTest[19779:10b] NSUInteger: 2 2008-09-14 21:43:07.259 NSUIntTest[19779:10b] NSUInteger: 1 2008-09-14 21:43:07.260 NSUIntTest[19779:10b] NSUInteger: 0 2008-09-14 21:43:07.261 NSUIntTest[19779:10b] NSUInt

Re: NSUInteger in for-loop?

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Reynolds
ep 14, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Alex Reynolds wrote: NSLog(@"NSUInteger: %d", counter); The correct type modifier for unsigned integers is %u not %d. Switch it and try again to see what's really happening. --Nathan ___ Cocoa-dev

NSUInteger in for-loop?

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Reynolds
I'm wondering if I'm using unsigned integers (specifically NSUInteger) properly or not. I was under the impression that unsigned integers run from 0 to MAX_INT, but when I use them in a "for" loop within these bounds, the loop does not seem to always obey these constraints. For example:

BOOL array

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Reynolds
I am currently putting 320 to 480 character long NSString * instances into an NSMutableArray. The characters are 0 or 1. I guess I could use an int array, but I'm looking to speed up my app and reduce storage. Is it possible to create a BOOL array that can be put into an NSMutableArray? T