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Apple Updates iPhone SDK with Interface Builder
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What?!
Are you saying it isn't 'NEAT' to find oh lets say a 'bold text' menu option in oh... lets say a 'build sql query' dialog screen?
Yea I'm being funny... sorta.. but don't you notice a very common theme with windows software ESPECIALLY home-brew software (4th party -- since MS bought up all the 3rd party back in the late 80s early 90s?)..
Dialog boxes and menus that have stuff just hurled on to them... A PRINT option under the EDIT menu a SAVE option under the HELP menu a QUIT option under the OPTIONS menu... Wheeee!! Oh and don't get me started on dialog boxes or program flow... you'd be hard pressed to find an 'averagely thought out application' and in that same time it took you to find it I'd have found dozens of 'not thought out in the slightest applications'.
Yea... Windows may have HORDS of 'developers' and it DOES comes in handy (don't get me wrong) but while they can write a program to 'get the job done' thats about ALL it does...
Dave
BTW if you or anyone figure out how to get started with IB for this iPhone SDK, please let me know - i'm totally lost
i found this link to be useful
Bugger... Ran into another issue!
To anyone familiar with development on the iPhone, how do you obtain the color: [UIColor groupTableBackgroundColor] for use without an actual group table? UIColor doesn't respond to that selector anymore, and I can't seem to find that image. Thanks!
Edit: Wow... Apple didn't even document this change in their API Delta... What's going on here?
Edit 2: The conflicting documentation/code is posted.
To anyone familiar with development on the iPhone, how do you obtain the color: [UIColor groupTableBackgroundColor] for use without an actual group table? UIColor doesn't respond to that selector anymore, and I can't seem to find that image. Thanks!
Edit: Wow... Apple didn't even document this change in their API Delta... What's going on here?
Edit 2: The conflicting documentation/code is posted.
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Anyone else getting "error: There is no SDK with specified name or path '/Developer/Platforms/Aspen.platform/Developer/SDKs/Aspen1.2.sdk'" when trying to build some of the sample apps (for example, Reachability or SeismicXML)? If so, any idea where the setting for this is?
I can verify that item #1 is happening to me as well. Not only that, but while it did download an update for the Xcode 3.1 docset, the content is old. (I.e., the 3.1 release notes on the web site are newer than what was downloaded.)
And, I uninstalled and reinstalled the SDK just to be safe.
Bugger... Ran into another issue!
To anyone familiar with development on the iPhone, how do you obtain the color: [UIColor groupTableBackgroundColor] for use without an actual group table? UIColor doesn't respond to that selector anymore, and I can't seem to find that image. Thanks!
Edit: Wow... Apple didn't even document this change in their API Delta... What's going on here?
Edit 2: The conflicting documentation/code is posted.
Don't count on the documentation. If you command-click UIColor (or any other class/method in Xcode) it will take you to the header file directly and you can look there to see if the method exists or not.
Yea, that's what I tried next, and in fact there is not a groupTableViewColor method. So now, I'm wondering how to get that specific UIColor back? There doesn't seem to be any mention of it in the new header, but it seems like the most important color out there! (It's the blue/white striped background you see in the Settings, and anywhere else there's a Grouped table view.)
Edit: Turns out the method is now named "groupTableViewBackgroundColor".
Apple had the SDK since the beginning (well, their limitless version). They simply stripped that, tried in every way to prevent people from making viruses and distributed that (which is why it can get misinterpreted as them coding an SDK from scratch a couple of months ago, then releasing it now).
The documenation is kind of poor, but a a tutorial on using IB to make an iPhone app is here: http://ihatetheiphonesdk.blogspot.com/2008/04/reason-2-interface-builder-is-buggy-and.html
Where are the Scrollbars, spinning selector thingies, etc.?
Does it seem to anyone else that there's a whole bunch of standard iPhone controls missing from IB?
I mean, sure, we can make plenty of lovely tabs... but what do we put in 'em?
Do we have to code everything half-by-hand now?
Does it seem to anyone else that there's a whole bunch of standard iPhone controls missing from IB?
I mean, sure, we can make plenty of lovely tabs... but what do we put in 'em?
Do we have to code everything half-by-hand now?
I'm just sticking with everything by hand for now. An iPhone library for Interface Builder got added with the last update, sure, but it lacks documentation and tons and tons of controls. The only thing I used Interface Builder for is to do some basic layout with various colored UIView objects, just so I could visualize where to place everything programmatically.
The best place to start is to pick up the UIShowcase source code off of the iPhone Dev Center, compile it for the simulator (or device, if you can
), and have at it. Its a really great tool for finding out what you can do easily and to get some copy-and-paste UI code to get your app speeding along.The Getting Started videos (and, really, most of the resources on the Dev Center) are all great tools that anyone jumping into Cocoa Touch should take a look at.
And remember to drop by the Mac Programming forum if you've got any questions (or breakthroughs!).
It's the beginning of new opportunities to match hardware interfaces with iPhone plattform by bluetooth. Question is if Apple will open bluetooth port in SDK.