Monthly Archives: July 2009

Resizing views around the keyboard

Most of my iPhone apps need to accept keyboard input somewhere and that means I need to reposition my UI elements such that the keyboard does not hide the field the user is typing in. The iPhone Application Programming Guide … Continue reading

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Loading UITableViewCells from a nib file

While working on iPhone applications I have found it useful to load as much of the UI layout and styling from nib files as possible. As a result I often want to load the cells for a table view from … Continue reading

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iPhone gesture recognition

I recently needed to support some basic gesture recognition in an iPhone app. As it turns out this is a little bit tricky to do when the touches occur within the same responder chain as a view which already responds … Continue reading

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Resizing UILabel to fit text

UILabels are often the most convenient way to display simple text in an iPhone app however I often want a label to display variable text which may need to wrap to multiple lines. Simply increasing the height of the UILabel … Continue reading

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Vinfolio Launches Collector Marketplace

Vinfolio announced today the launch of Vinfolio Marketplace where wine collectors can buy and sell wine from their private cellars. According to Steve Bachmann, Vinfolio CEO, the marketplace includes 27,000+ unique items already marked for sale – more than 170,000 … Continue reading

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