Capturing screenshot on iPhone needs the QuartzCore framework.
1. Right click the Framework folder in your Xcode project.
2. Add -< Add Existing Frameworks
3. Choose the QuartzCore.framework Continue reading iPhone – Capture Screenshot Programmatically
In iPhone SDK, there is no setBackgroundImage function for setting an background image of an UIView. But actually, this can be done by the setBackgroundColor function. The following code will set the background view to Red.
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
In iPhone Application, you can use the UIAlertView to create a message box. The following code is an example.
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" message:@"Your Messaage" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles: nil]; [alert show]; [alert release];
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There is no maximum length attribute in the UITextField. Here is a work around to limit the number of input characters in an UITextField.
1. Implement the UITextFieldDelegate in the .h header file
...
@interface HelloViewController : UIViewController <UITextFieldDelegate> {
...
}
@end
2. Implement this function in the .m implementation file to set the maximum length to 4 characters
- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
NSUInteger newLength = [textField.text length] + [string length] - range.length;
return (newLength > 4) ? NO : YES;
}
Done =)
The layout of an UIView in iPhone Application can be created and modified either by the Interface Builder or by code. If you make it by Interface Builder, you have to wire the items u created to File Owner.
On the other hand, u can make an Item on the UIView by code. The following example will created a “Hello World” UILabel at coordinate (10, 15) with size equals to 40 x 20;
// Create the UILabel instance UILabel *aLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 15, 40, 20)]; // Set the tag of aLabel aLabel.tag = 1; // Set the text aLabel.text = @"Hello World"; // Add the UILabel view to UIView associated with the controller [self.view addSubview:aLabel]; // Release the memory [aLabel release];
You can add different items such as UIImageView, UITextField etc. Please note that the view tag is the only field to distinguish different subviews.
To remove all the subviews except the one with tag equals to 1, you can use
for (UIView *subview in [self.view subviews]) {
// Only remove the subviews with tag not equal to 1
if (subview.tag != 1) {
[subview removeFromSuperview];
}
}
Done =)
Update @ 2011-06-18: Added the “Release the memory” code. Thanks Luke. =)
Sometimes u would need to create some Global Variables in an iPhone Application such that they can be accessed in other implementation class files.
Those Global Variables are created in the AppDelegate. If you want to access it in another file, you have to get the AppDelegate instance before you can read or write the Global Variables. For example, the HelloAppDelegate has a NSString instance variable named as greeting and i want to read it in the HelloViewController.m
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Ususally we use the Format Specifier in NSLog() to show the debug output. For Example:
NSString* name = @"Yuen Ying Kit"; int age = 26; NSLog(@"My name is %@", name); NSLog(@"I am %i years old", age);
Convert NSString to int
NSString *aNumberString = @"123"; int i = [aNumberString intValue];
Convert int to NSString
int aNumber = 123; NSString *aString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", aNumber];
Recently, I start learning the iPhone Application Development. If you want to be a iPhone Application Developer, you have to fulfill the following requirements.
Continue reading iPhone – Start Developing Your First iPhone Application
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