On 5/11/11 1:17 AM, Terry Vogelaar wrote:
I'm running into a few problems building an iOS app.
The most important one is this one. I want it to retrieve data from an 18MB
text file, because I want it to work when the device is not connected to the
internet. So I tried this:
on preopenstack
put "file:"& specialFolderPath("documents")& "/Muziek.txt" into docsmap
if the environment = "mobile" then
answer "Download or use local?" with "Download" or "Local"
if it is "Download" then
put url "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10128030/Muziek.txt"; into muzieklijst
-- not the actual url
put muzieklijst into url docsmap
else
put url docsmap into muzieklijst
end if
else
put url "file:~/Dropbox/Public/Muziek.txt" into muzieklijst
end if
-- and some additional processing of the muzieklijst data that works fine
end preopenstack
As you can see, it intends to write the text file I expected the
download to be only the first time the app is used, or optionally
when I know the file has changed. It takes a few minutes staring at a
black screen, but eventually it works.
But apparently it doesn't save the file on the iPod Touch. The
variable muzieklijst only contains data when it is freshly
downloaded. If I tap on the "Local" button, muzieklijst stays empty.
Check to see if the path is really valid in iOS while the app is
running. Add this to your script temporarily:
put "file:"& specialFolderPath("documents")& "/Muziek.txt" into docsmap
answer "File exists:" && there is a file docsmap & cr & docsmap
See what it says. SpecialFolderPath should work, so I suspect the path
isn't resolving correctly.
I see a beautiful picker on iOS when using a
button with the menuMode set to 'option'. But on screen, the button
looks 90'ish with an ugly border around it.
I haven't played much with these yet, so can't say. Maybe someone else
knows.
Also, I applied a great technique I learned on the Beginners Mobile
Course on the Simulcast. I put a bunch of PNGs in a Resouces substack
and I copied the scripts from the Ticked Off stack, used in the demo.
It worked great; it scaled all the icons on the main stack. But as
soon as I switched an icon (using: "set the icon of me to 1023"), it
showed (the center portion of) the large version of that icon; not
the downscaled one I wanted to see.
All the images in your resources stack need to have their lockloc set to
true so they won't revert to their original dimensions. You only have to
do that once, when you set up the images.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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