Tag Archives: Objective-C

First Peek: “Squadron Leader” for iOS7

Posted on September 18, 2013 by alec
First alpha demo of new iOS game -- Of course in the real game, you will die... unless I make Space Leeches!
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Drawing Text on an Arc in CocoaTouch

Posted on August 18, 2011 by alec

CoreText is available now in iOS, but it’s not an easy framework to use. After trying several other approaches to draw text on an arc at this Stack Overflow page,  I adapted Apple’s sample code  CoreTextArcCocoa for Mac class for …

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How to get the Return key to dismiss a UITextView

Posted on July 15, 2010 by alec

Need to dismiss they keyboard in a UITextView? Changing the Return key to read “Done” doesn’t make the iPhone keyboard to go away.  Put this code in the delegate for your UITextView and your return key can behave more like …

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plist > JSON > XML

Posted on July 12, 2010 by alec

Having developed 4 or 5 iPhone apps now that download remote XML data from servers and populate tables view and other content, I can tell you without reservation that it is the slowest way to go.

Performance using JSON is …

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How To Place a UIWebView inside a UIScrollView

Posted on July 9, 2010 by alec

To display several pieces of content on a screen, I needed several views. A scroll view (UIScrollView) was necessary to encompass the headline, photo and story text; I had the headline and photo at the top in a …

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