UISearchBar + UITableView +UINavigationController issue - iphone

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UINavigationController + UITableView + UISearchBar + UISplitViewController
Is there any way to make it so the solution above doesn't make it unfilter the results? In my case you see the entire list pop back up (during the animation) when you deactivate the search in viewWillDisappear, and if you do it in viewDidDisappear then it seems to be too late and the next view is once again below/ontop of the bar. Any other solution?

OK, I've got your answer-
Here are the steps that worked for me [containing some pseudocode]:
1) Since you are searching you are most certainly already overriding ShouldReloadForSearch- So just add piece of code that saves/stores the forSeachString.
2) This one may vary quite a bit depending on your app- but the gist for this step is that you need to clear out the stored search string [set to null] if no search results are loaded. I did this in my UITableViewSource. I have 2 constructors- one for the full dataset and another on for the filtered [search results] dataset. So I just set it to null in my full dataset constructor. Yeah, you could do it differently no doubt but that's how I did it.
3) Next, do as the original "answer" states and call SetActive - [self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO];. They advocated doing it in override of ViewDidAppear. I didn't do that... I did this immediately after I pushed the next UIViewController in my RowSelected override.
4) Last, within your UIViewController that has the UISearchDisplayController attached- check for your saved search string and if it exists then do the following: 1) call SetActive again BUT this time with a true parameter ie setActive:YES... then 2) set the searchBar text to your saved search string value. I did this in the ViewWillAppear override.
Long story short... this worked for me AND it maintains the search results. Setting the searchBar text in step 4 is the key... this effectively gets the filter to persist.
Hope this helps someone

I ended up fixing this by changing where the search bar showed up (instead of going over the navigation bar, its tied to the table like in the email inbox). This fixed the issue and made it look more like the Apple apps.

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NSTableView with custom cell view and NSArrayController bindings drawing a blank string

It took me forever to figure out how to set up editing on a custom cell view for an NSTableView. Thanks to StackOverflow I figured that much out. P.S. I was doing all of this in Interface Builder.
I have a single column table in which the cell is a custom multi-control NSTableCellView, with:
name (in bold)
description
detail
It's all text. Set up editability on the name only. The table is sorted by the name.
When I edit the name, it has the effect on the bound model that I expect. The table even re-sorts correctly. However, it's displaying incorrectly. The description and detail (not editable) still show up correctly, but the name (which was edited) is a blank. When I inspect the model, it has the correct updated value. But the cell view itself is incorrect.
This doesn't happen all the time--it typically happens if the cell is re-sorted to the top or bottom of the table, but that may be a red herring and may instead have to do with NSTableView cell caching or something.
I hacked up a workaround in which I assign a delegate to the NSTextField (automatically generated for the NSTableCellView) and intercept the textShouldEndEditing event. For some reason this event is getting triggered twice for a given edit (after I press "enter" in the text field)--once for the actual edit where fieldEditor.string is different from the model name, followed by another event where fieldEditor.string is the same as the model name. If I return false for my textShouldEndEditing handler in the latter case, then the cell contents end up being drawn correctly. That's the hack.
I feel like I'm doing something wrong here though, and that shouldn't be necessary.
Is the textShouldEndEditing event supposed to be fired twice?

Xcode: he first view doesn't see changes made by the second one

I'm a very newbie in the obj-c programming and have some troubles trying to change values between two views. I'm using Xcode 4.5 and storyboards and I've some problems with passing a changed value from the second view to the first one.
Here's my 2 very simple views (posting the link as I'm a new user and can't post images):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4o2bblu1p57zod/img.png
These views are assigned to the same class (ViewController) and the code I'm using to change the 2 labels is:
-(IBAction)setLabel:(id)sender
{
if (myTextField.text.length != 0) {
myLabel1.text = myTextField.text;
myLabel2.text = myTextField.text;
}
}
The problem is that Label1 changes correctly its text, but there's nothing to do with Label2! It doesn't want to change...
I think I'm trying to do something that can be made in others ways...Can you please tell me if it's correct?
You need to use Protocol-Delegate approach to update content in First view.
I suggest you to visit this sample link.
Your two view controllers may be of the same class but they are going to be different objects at runtime. You have a segue between them and when that executes a new instance will be created. Since the 'label2' of the second instance is not displayed on its screen, your assignment doesn't produce a visible change.

NSSortDescriptor/NSPredicate to organize my tableView

i have a table view. In the table view, there is a custom UILabel, And each label with have a letter. "A, B, C, D" etc.. You can hit a plus button on the nav bar and it bring you to another view controller to enter info, and you hit save, and it adds the row onto the table view. Is there a way to utilize NSSortDescriptor/NSPredicate to make all the "A"'s together (together meaning i want all the cells with a to be with each other, but i still want them in the same section. ) if that makes sense! Is there a way to do this? Im using Core Data to save all my information. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance
I assume you are using NSFetchedResultsController. If not, please refactor and do.
The section grouping is anyway taken care of by the key path during the initialization of the fetched results controller with the argument sectionKeyPath.
As the sorting does not change, simply add a sort descriptor to the fetch request before initializing the fetched results controller:
fetchRequest.sortDescriptors = #[[NSSortDescriptor
sortDescriptorWithKey:#"textAttributeName" ascending:YES]];
where textAttributeName is the whatever you called your A B C label attribute in your entity.

QCompleter and Tab key

I'm trying to make a Completion when pressing tab, you get the first completion of all possibilities.
But, in a QWidget-based main window, pressing tab will make that QLineEdit lost focus, and completion popup hides after that.
Is there a way to fix it ?
Have you tried to subclass QLineEdit and intercept the key press event?
Alternatively you could set up an event filter.
Whew. It took me some time to figure this out :) Multiple times I have tried to solve this problem, but always gave up. Now, I dug enough to find the answer.
OP, please pardon me, because the code here is Python, but should be understandable and work for C++ as well.
Basically, the problem I had was "how to select an entry in the QCompleter"; I didn't notice before, but the answer is in the popup() method. QCompleter works with a model and a view, which contains the things to show.
You can change the current row as you wish, then get the index of that row in the model, then select it in the pop-up.
In my code, I subclassed QLineEdit, created a tabPressed signal which is emitted every time Tab is pressed. Then, connected this signal to a method of the same class which does this:
get the current index;
select the index in the popup;
advance to the next row.
As implementation, this is very trivial, but for my current purpose this is enough. Here's the skeleton (just for the tab part, it's missing the model and everything else).
class MyLineEdit(QLineEdit):
tabPressed = pyqtSignal()
def __init__(self, parent=None):
super().__init__(parent)
self._compl = QCompleter()
self.tabPressed.connect(self.next_completion)
def next_completion(self):
index = self._compl.currentIndex()
self._compl.popup().setCurrentIndex(index)
start = self._compl.currentRow()
if not self._compl.setCurrentRow(start + 1):
self._compl.setCurrentRow(0)
def event(self, event):
if event.type() == QEvent.KeyPress and event.key() == Qt.Key_Tab:
self.tabPressed.emit()
return True
return super().event(event)
You may need to adjust/fix few things, but this is the basic idea.
EDIT:
For details see
http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/23518-How-to-change-completion-rule-of-QCompleter
There's a little issue: when Return is pressed, the things don't work properly. Maybe you can find a solution to this problem in the link above, or in the referenced resources therein. I'll fix this in the next few days and update this answer.
There is probably a better solution but one that comes to mind is to change the focus policy for all other widgets on the form to something that doesn't include "tab" focus. The only options that don't use the tab key are Qt::ClickFocus and Qt::NoFocus.

Erratic UIPageControls

I'm using two UIPageControls in a view to reflect chapters and pages. So I have defined one UIPageControl named chapterCount and one named pageCount just to show where the user is. I handle the flipping of the pages with swipes rather than using the UIPageControls (so no methods defined for them).
I change their values as the user change pages with the following code:
chapterCount.numberOfPages = chapters;
chapterCount.currentPage = chapterNumber;
pageCount.numberOfPages = pages;
pageCount.currentPage = pageNumber;
[chapterCount updateCurrentPageDisplay];
[pageCount updateCurrentPageDisplay];
Where chapters, chapterNumber, pages and pageNumber all are integers.
The first time I flip through the pages it normally works fine, but when I go to a previous chapter or start a new chapter, the first (or last depending on direction) dot is not showed. Please see picture (upper half is missing a dot, lower one OK).
alt text http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3339/pagecontrol.png
Its the same code updating the controls and sometime I get a dot, sometimes not. When I check the variables with NSLOG they are correct (eg the same for both pictures above).
I have checked Apple's documentation and tried their example but no luck.
Where should I start troubleshooting? I'm getting crazy!!
I finally found the problem :-)
An UIPageControl that is given a value 0 for number of pages will not show correctly the next time it is updated. I was reading chapter and page numbers from an array and in the beginning (let's say cover of the book) there are no pages and no chapters to show, so I happily set these to 0. Since I did not want to change the source data in my array I used MAX(pages , 1) for numberOfPages, so now it's working like clockwork.
Are you sure your chapterCount and pageCount views are not nil? You can have valid values all day, a message to nil does nothing and returns nil. Double check your view and controller wiring/unwiring when you change chapters.
EDIT:
confirm the size of the control is big enough to hold all your pages, and the view bounds is not clipped. For example, if you had 10 pages, and the "current" page was 10, but there were only 9 dots visible, it would appear as though nothing is highlighted because the white dot would be clipped from the visible area by being outside the viewable bounds. You can adjust the size dynamically using this:
- (CGSize)sizeForNumberOfPages:(NSInteger)pageCount