Help With Threading

2009-03-15 Thread Kenneth Ramey
Hello; I have an application I wrote to read from a very simple GPS device that attaches as a serial device through a USB port. I had some success with it but it was running too slowly, since GPS fixes are normally updated once per second. Attempting to speed the application up, I trie

Method Sequence on Application Loads

2009-03-08 Thread Kenneth Ramey
I am looking for information on the sequence of method invocation as an application loads. For instance, Apple's documentation says that awakeFrom Nib is called after the user interface loads but before any events have been handled. I want to create an application that begins reading real

Strange NSString Behavior

2009-02-26 Thread Kenneth Ramey
I have a method, written in Objective-C, to parse a string, extracting several fields from it. Originally, I was pulling out a couple of float values and some int fields. Other fields in the string need to be treated as substrings. As I researched how to deal with the substrings, I came