Category Archives: iPhone

Just got tripped up here. Was doing some runtime type checking… if an instance is this class, do this, if it’s this class, do this. A bit hacky, may clean it up later, but anyway… I was using something like: … Continue reading →

I had a vague awareness that things like this were out there, but finally went ahead and tried this one. Works great. http://code.google.com/p/accelerometer-simulator/wiki/Home Basically, you check out this XCode project, fix it up so you can provision it to your … Continue reading →

If you attended my “From Flash to iPhone” workshop at Flash on Tap last week (has it been a whole week already???), I’m finally getting around to putting up the slides and code I promised. If you didn’t attend the … Continue reading →

I just had a comment from someone at memo.tv, and the links were cool enough that I’ll just share the whole comment. Definitely looks worth checking out: Hey, you’re posts on cocoa are great and very useful, and cocos2d looks … Continue reading →

I needed to draw a curve tonight in cocos2d. The Primitives file has a few basic OpenGL based drawing methods, but no curves. So I created these two methods: [c] #import #import #import #import void drawQuadBezier(CGPoint origin, CGPoint control, CGPoint … Continue reading →

In my first tutorial, I brought up an issue with color banding in gradient pngs used in Sprites in cocos2d. I mentioned a hack that I was using that involved changing a line in the Textures2D class. But I just … Continue reading →

Menus OK, let’s talk menus. Because some people might have a preconceived idea of what a menu is, let’s define it in this context as a collection of visual items that can be tapped on to make a choice. This … Continue reading →

Might as well gather these all together in one spot. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 More to come.