Apple needs to fix this one. There is an inconsistency in the way that the UIDatePicker is rendered in Storyboards in Xcode vs. their rendering at runtime. This problem set me back longer than it should have this morning, since its effect was tricky to diagnose. The basic consequence of this was that the custom UIButton I had …
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Gus Mueller of Flying Meat Software offers his opinions on what Apple must do to get iCloud right for developers: The Shape of Everything: How to Know When Apple Finally Gets iCloud Right But how are we going to know Apple has finally fixed iCloud syncing for developers and is really serious this time? And …
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Recently on a project I needed to see what was going on inside the UIWebView that I was working with. Turns out it is very simple to retrieve and then log the HTML contained inside the UIWebView, using the stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString method of the UIWebView, coupled with a very simple JavaScript call… – (void)logDocumentHtml { NSString …
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Nice rundown on Xcode 4 Code Snippets: Xcode 4 Code Snippets – Speed of Light Xcode 4 Code Snippets ? Perhaps my favourite feature of Xcode 4 is the Code Snippets feature. It allows you to use common bits quickly in your code, instead of requiring you retype them over and over again.
Recently, I was having an issue I was having with subviews added to my UIButton objects that I was customizing. The buttons would behave fine if they were standard rounded rect buttons, but the moment I added a UIView and some UILabels to it, the taps stopped responding. But I was able to resolve it, thanks to …
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