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September 19, 2010 0

Post-A-Day #3 – Flipping Views

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In my current project, I needed to pretend my object had a front view and a back view. Like a baseball card for example. Design often mirrors real life, so it’s a common graphic design idea. Post-A-Day are pretty tough so i have less time to write my thoughts more eloquently, however… – Iphone animation [...]

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September 4, 2010 0

What is a struct?

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So as i’ve learned more about programming in Objective-C, things that scared me at first are less scary now. One thing I wondered and stayed away from at first were ‘Structs’ – because they sounded alien to me, I just didn’t get them. In Objective-C, everything inherits from NSObject. That’s a really great thing, you [...]

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September 3, 2010 0

Consicely animate an object along a path sensitive to time.

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For a project that I am currently working on I needed to animate an object along a path. The path is recorded as the user moves their finger over the phone over time. If they move slowly from A to B, then when I recreate their movement I have to move slowly. The other added [...]

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August 17, 2010 1

Compiling/Building Cinder

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This is not specifically related to iphone, but will be tied into the next post. Cinder is a creative coding framework created by the Barbarian group, it is meant to be used the way Processing, or OpenFrameworks. It allows you to make visually interesting things, without worrying about the burden of all the…..stuff, required to [...]

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March 30, 2010 2

Code for iphone on two different computers

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Step 1: Open keychain Export Apple WorldWide Dev Export Iphone Developer Certificate Step 2: Go to keys, Export the private key as p12 whatever Step 3: Open xcode Open organizer Right click mobileprovision profile, select reveal in finder Place all the items into a folder – send yourself that folder on the new computer Step [...]

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March 26, 2010 1

How about a topic?

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I’ve learned so much since i started delving into objective-c, and yet i’ve written so little recently on here as those simple things finally became lodged in my head so I’m asking the few people who reach this blog to suggest a topic. Here are a few that I find interesting, and would love to [...]

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December 20, 2009 4

Lets try creating Box2d ContactListeners!

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A contactlistener (or sensor, used here on out interchangeably) is an object that as it says, listens for contacts. This object however does not react (in the physical sense) once it has collided. For example picture a scenario where you had a pinball game, how would you know when the ball should be on the [...]

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October 21, 2009 0

Stanford iPhone course is online

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Wow what a cool resource! I wish i had found this when i was just starting out. It’s so perfectly structured, Im going to start going going through these from day one. Because when you learn the ghetto self-taught web way, you never know if you’re doing things the right way or if they just [...]

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October 6, 2009 0

NSLog – Making an NSObject return useful info

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This is so useful, the AS3 equivalent would be toString(). Not enough developers take advantage of it in the as3 world either, but if you’re learning iphone development you should start off correctly whether coming from as3 or not. – (NSString *)description; Don’t place that in your header as you are overwriting this method. So [...]

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September 29, 2009 9

Creating a global object in objective-C

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This is a very simple idea, and one that’s useful for settings. You might have a settings screen, and your actual little game and they need to read from (the game) and write to (the settings screen) from an object they can both access. This simple concept took a lot of googling to find out [...]

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