Category Archives: Objective C

Dot Notation or Square Brackets?

Posted on June 29, 2009 by keith

In Objective-C, you call methods with square brackets. Instead of: [c]myObject.myMethod();[/c] it’s: [c][myObject myMethod];[/c] Instead of: [c]myObject.myMethod(argument);[/c] it’s: [c][myObject myMethod:argument];[/c] Bizarre at first to many, but it really does grow on you. Especially with multiple arguments, it’s like having named … Continue reading →

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Bug Out! Submitted to App Store

Posted on June 28, 2009 by keith

http://wickedpissahgames.com/?page_id=105

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 14 Comments

Bug Out! New iPhone Game Coming Soon!

Posted on June 27, 2009 by keith

Almost done. Hope to submit this weekend, along with a whole lot of other stuff I have to do. But figured I’d start getting the “buzz” out now. 🙂

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 9 Comments

TextExpander and XCode (and Pragmatic Screencasts)

Posted on June 24, 2009 by keith

I installed TextExpander a few weeks back and have been slowly building up some cool snippets. One thing I often want to do is log something. An object, an int or float, or a point or rectangle. The object and … Continue reading →

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An NSObject is an NSObject… or is it?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by keith

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 →

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Accelerometer in Simulator

Posted on June 13, 2009 by keith

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 →

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Thoughts on Game Architecture

Posted on June 11, 2009 by keith

I’ve made a few games in my time. And made various parts of a few other games for other people. Most of the games that I’ve worked on have been pretty simple, but recently I’ve been working on some more … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C | 41 Comments

Flash on Tap Workshop Slides and Code

Posted on June 4, 2009 by keith

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 →

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iPhone App Launch Sequence

Posted on May 22, 2009 by keith

I was going over the stuff I’m going to cover next week in my “From Flash to iPhone” workshop at Flash on Tap, and I started getting into how an iPhone app launches when you tap its icon. It might … Continue reading →

Posted in Brevity, Extensibility, iPhone, Objective C | 7 Comments

openFrameworks and iPhone

Posted on May 20, 2009 by keith

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 →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 4 Comments