i'm looking to rebuild the MPMediaPicker from scratch (it's using my own song/artist data).
Does anyone know of an open source and free replacement for this? I'd really like to avoid creating all those views/etc
I've found PSMediaPicker, but it's $100.
I could have sworn I came across one - but I'm unable to find it anywhere.
If you are creating one for your own song/artist data then I would highly recommend just creating your own. If it is for music then it wouldn't really be much more than a modal view with some UITableViews in it, and since you know how the data is organized it shouldn't take long to get it up and running.
Bottom line - t will probably take you longer to find and integrate a suitable replacement than it would to just roll your own.
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First time poster here...but been using StackOverflow for solutions whenever I get stuck.. ton of great information here! I will try to describe the question as thoroughly as I can and hope someone can help me out with it. I need to generate a PDF in Swift and present it on an iPad, so i decided to use TPPDF for the PDF generation and then Apple's PDFKit to present it.
TPPDF has been working great for me, however, I ran into an issue where if I create a PDFTable with an enough amount of rows, it overflows into the next page without creating a new table. The last row gets cut off about 1/3 way and the other 2/3 is generated on the next page. This creates a weird visual effect which i'd rather not have if it's possible.
I've been reading through the documentation as well as sifting through the source code to try and figure out if there's a way but I can't find a decent workaround. The only workaround I can think of is splitting up the content and creating multiple PDFTables on new pages (using the createNewPage() method). This would take a good amount of rework in my code so I wanted to post it here to see if anyone has come across this and come up with a solution.
I appreciate any help!!
-George
thanks for asking, this is actually an on-going issue which occured after adding the merge-cell feature. This is discussed in issue #243, so you take a closer look at what's going on there.
I've started to work with Ionic, just to have some experience with it. And so far I like and hate it.
I hate it, because it's confusing sometimes. Like in this case: what should I use #ionic-native/camera or #ionic-native/media-capture to take pictures? The examples I found use the first one, but I see that the second one provides me with more information about the picture after taking it (such as width/height).
So - which should I use? And if I am supposed the first one, how can I retrieve the image information (e.g. width/height) afterwards?
Sorry if my question is stupid, but I really can't find good information regarding this topic.
Long story short: Use whatever plugin you want.
Both of the plugins have an ionic-native wrapper available (cordova-plugin-media-capture and cordova-plugin-camera). If the media-capture plugin fits your needs better you should use this one. Both plugins are maintained by Apache so they should both be of high quality.
So whats the difference then?
The media-capture plugin simply offers more functionality than the camera one. You can capture Audio, Video and Photos and with cordova-plugin-camera you can only capture single photos.
I've read a number of posts on Apple's forums, and a number of posts on the Cycling '74 forums (with my own questions scattered around both) and nobody seems to be able to help me.
I used Max/MSP to write a 'patch' that takes samples and generates music. I'm going to release it as an album similar to Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon, but wanted to make it available to people so they can have the music last for more than the hour a CD can hold.
What I don't know how to do, and can't figure out is HOW. It looks just like a regular OS X app, and the only difference I see in the directory structure is that my Max/MSP made application has extra .framework folders as well as the objects I use (which I guess are similar to 'functions' in JScript). I've looked at the package contents of both OS X files and the unpacked .ipa files from the App Store. Being so similar I would imagine it'd be pretty easy.
Where do I start? Has anybody on this forum done this? Thanks for your time!
[edit] - I just wanted to let you know I've discovered RJDJ, an iOS app that allows users to create 'scenes' in Puredata (Pd) and load them on their RJDJ program. I'd rather not go this route.
[edit2] - ok. I agree that it's very different. Especially having 4 (i could cut it down to 3) additional frameworks that aren't part of the SDK. But Ive been thinking. I can add a JavaScript object inside of my program, or make a special new object (object in max is sort of like a class in JS, i think) using C. Is there anything in these languages that would be able to convert a simple 'touch' to a 'mouseclick' in my app?
My application is very very simple. Basically just samples, played at randomly generated time intervals with some a 'conductor' to bring in/out the groups the samples are drawn from (piano, fx, etc...). So the user just clicks the 'start' button and off it goes. So the .nib file I would need to create is very simple. In my head it seems like the .ipa package/ios .app both contain unix executables and so long as these are basically the same it should work, right?
Max6 has been released.
A new object/concept named gen~ is available.
As far as I discussed with C74 dev, I know gen~ WILL provide its source code output. This code produce by the gen~ object could be useable in any other framework. basically, it will be C++
So it would really open A LOT of possibilities ; Max becoming a real graphical framework producing output that can be used in programming world.
It would save time for some part of the code.
As far as I can see from poking around at the Cycling '74 site and forums, there's currently no Max engine available for iOS. libpd is probably your best bet, really. (I'd note that the Inception app uses this Pure Data engine with a custom interface and it works very well.)
Unfortunately OSX and iOS apps are completely different under the hood. Outwardly they look similar (eg. you've noted the .app extension) but the internals are completely different.
We we wondering what are some ways developers have added a help function to their apps. What are some techniques people have used?
One way we were thinking of is to us UIWebView to display a HTML file with help instructions.
Thoughts appreciated.
I'm using UIWebView right now which pretty much contains all the help in a single page, along with some JQuery things to display popups, etc. But I like the way iCab Mobile (et al.) are doing things which is a sectioned UITableView with each row a separate topic or section within their overall help information (complete with icons...) then in their bundle they have each section in its own html file, organized by localization.
Another thing in my queue for the next release is to provide a dynamic "News" view. The rough idea is as follows... I have on my server a file or CGI where I can place small bits of news I'd like to push out to users. On startup, my app checks for network availability and if present, start a thread to see if anything has changed on the server since last updating the News data. If changes present, post an alert letting user know, and asking if they'd like to read it now. At that point, the latest news is already downloaded and cached, so they can simply read it later if they want, and I won't post anymore alerts until the server file changes again. (And one could add a preference/setting to disable these alerts.)
I'm thinking this would be a good way to let people know that some nasty bug is known and fixed and an update is sitting in the queue, solicit beta testers, promote upcoming features or other apps, etc. I can see where constant alerts everytime I've got something new to promote would get annoying, so having a setting to disable them means the user never has to read them unless they want to. Although some kind of override to warn of recently discovered/fixed bugs seems sensible.
FWIW, the author of Mover+/Mover has just started doing a similar thing, though I think Emanuele is perhaps only showing one Notelet at a time, whereas I envision a bit more of a history (shown in UIWebView) until I decide to age stuff off the bottom of the stack.
I'm using a scroll/page view to show several images containing small notes. Each image then tells the user about the more advanced functions on a specific part of the app.
In my opinion the help should only contain information that isn't a 100% relevant for the use of the application. It should be things the advanced user should use to make more use of the app. It should contain gold for the power users. The "basics" should be so obvious that no help would ever be needed. If that's not the case, I think, you've failed as a developer on the iPhone platform.
(Here's a screen shot from my demo app)
I'm currently creating a fairly complicated app. I'm thinking of doing help as a semi-transparent overlay - help in text form is hard to swallow for users; it's much more helpful to just point at stuff and say "this does that".
Has anyone had experience with MySource Matrix as a content management system? If so, thoughts/opinions/comments?
Thanks in advance.
Absolutely excellent. It takes little while to get used to how it does things with its asset structure, but it is really flexible and powerful. Simple edit interfaces are great too.
Make sure you give it enough hardware. If you want dynamic content without caching you need heaps of grunt to make it hum.
Hands down the best CMS I have ever used. We use it on the Pacific Union College website, as well as many side projects. I am still amazed at all it has to offer compared to other products that are not free.
Give it a good look, and take some time to get past the learning curve, but once you do, it will be more than worth it. :)
I've recently been trying to use it in an organization where many non power users are generating content. - it has many interface bugs and odd behavior, so that many simple tasks (i.e. loading images) often have to be done by an power user (i.e. me).
When you are editing the HTML of page content white space is not preserved. If you where to format the HTML in the WYSIWYG editor, save you changes, and then come back the whitespace you've added will be removed - actually when you switch the WYSIWYG editor into HTML mode it doesn't show you the exact HTML, and does some silly things - like pressing enter inserts non breaking spaces - but doesn't show them until you save and re-enter HTML mode.
it is a number of little details like this which make it generally frustrating to use and disliked by everyone here.