Ch. 10

sirab33 · June 2nd, 2011, 03:35 PM

Hi All,

I've done everything in chapter 10 with no problems so far: everything works, AND I actually understand it.

The only problem arises with the last bit of sample-code, called "Copying Bundled Resources".
1) HOW do we check for what its doing? Meaning, how do we know it copied the Resources file and wrote it to the Documents folder?
I'm not seeing any new files there other then the "Apps.plist" and "data.txt" files that were created with the previous pieces of sample-code from this chapter.

2) In the AppDelegate file - WHEN/HOW is this method called?

Code:

-(void) copyFileInBundleToDocumentsFolder: (NSString *) fileName withExtension: (NSString *) ext {

What's calling it? I don't see it getting called by the "didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:" method, so what's calling it?

3) Finally, what values are being plugged-in for the method's arguments "fileName" and "ext"? Where do we see that?

thepianoguy · June 3rd, 2011, 08:12 AM

Since I don't have the book I can't check the steps page by page, but the download has the call to
-(void)copyFileInBundleâ¦
in
-didFinishLaunchingWithOptionsâ¦
On p 275 (using the "look inside" at Amazon) the text has this call added. The method is called. To verify that it is called, you can delete the files in the Application's Documents folder and run the program. The "File copied" log message will be displayed in the console, and rechecking the Application's Documents folder will show that the file is there. If previous exercises already placed a file of the same name in the Documents folder the "if" statement in the -copyFileInBundle method will cause actual copying to be skipped, since it only makes the copy if the file does not already exist at the location.

Based on the call in -didFinishLaunchingWithOptionsâ¦
fileName is "Apps" and ext is "plist"

Bob

sirab33 · June 4th, 2011, 02:56 PM

ok I'll look into this and let you know how I do - thanks as usual.

in the meantime I'm running into issues in Ch. 20 with the rotation/compass bits of code (I'm not getting errors, but it just doesn't work - even when I tried the author's code [meaning the actual files he made available for download from this here web-site] - they didn't produce the right results either...)

I'll make it a separate post though, so future users can reference it as well if necessary.