Tag Archives: iOS

Progress with adding iCloud to Chef’s Book.

Posted on October 15, 2011 by diziet

There are some interesting challenges with incorporating iCloud support, especially into an existing application. One, which I’ve been working through, is that you can no longer copy in a pre-existing store for the purposes of loading data. Such a move … Continue reading →

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Whilst deciding what to include with the App, we write a PDF generator!

Posted on February 8, 2011 by diziet

Managed to implement rendering of recipes into multipage PDF documents. They look something like this: Lasagne Recipe One thing to note whilst writing the code was the usual inverted co-ordinates. I wanted an image in the top left, title and … Continue reading →

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Providing a consistent UI experience between UITextField and UITextView

Posted on December 10, 2010 by diziet

There are a few major differences between the two but the most glaring is that UITextView does not support styles so you cannot create them stylistically the same as a UITextField. You cannot readily apply background images depending on state … Continue reading →

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Following on from dynamic clocks.

Posted on August 26, 2010 by diziet

It would also be nice to draw multiple clocks if one is ‘full’ it starts another. This example draws and returns a maximum of three clocks but always returns a 90×30 image: – (UIImage *)drawClocks:(NSNumber *)time { UIImage *image; int … Continue reading →

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Drawing little clock icons dynamically.

Posted on August 26, 2010 by diziet

It’s kind of nice to be able to dynamically draw little ‘clock’ time icons. This function returns a UIImage of 30×30 pixels containing such an image: static inline float radians(double degrees) { return (degrees * M_PI) / 180; } – … Continue reading →

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