Hi All,

Did anyone get the Ch. 20 lessons on detecting a device's ROTATION (page 493-498) and displaying it via a rotating Compass image to work?

I'm not getting any run-time errors, exceptions or warnings - everything runs fine - but they just plain don't work for me. The compass image shows up but doesn't rotate, and the label-field that's supposed to be displaying the Degrees of rotation doesn't update its values either.

The problem continues with the next lesson ("Rotating the Map", pg. 498-504) - the code executes fine, but no results.

I downloaded the author's source-codes and ran his versions as well for both of these - they don't work either. Again, no errors are generated - but the apps just plain don't do what they're supposed to do.
(And yes, I built both apps onto my device - a 2nd. generation iPod Touch - and ran them from there, as per the instructions.)

If anyone has figured out what's wrong - please share with the rest of us!

Thanks :-)

Does the author say that the code will work on an iPod Touch? It works on iPad and iPhone, but I can't see how it can work on iPod touch. (It doesn't on my 4th generation.) There is no compass in the iPod touch.
The 3 minor issues I had with the project. (identical in the previous book). In that version it was set up on iPad and presented in landscape mode. The in CLLocationManager the default headingOrientation assumes UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait, so it is necessary to set the CLLocationManager heading orientation to whichever landscape mode you use or the compass will not indicate north in the correct direction.
Second in the MyAnnotation class the <MKAnnotation> protocol provides accessors
-(NSString *)subtitle;
and
-(NSString *)title;

The instance variables that he provides for the class are
NSString *title;
and
NSString *subTitle;

The accessor generated by the @synthesize for title is overridden by his written accessor, which is identical to the one that the @synthesize would generate. A simple approach, which I did, is to name the instance variables
NSString *title; (as in the book)
and
NSString *subtitle; (small 't' on title)

This way the accessors provided with @synthesize take care of everything.

There is also a memory leak, the
[mapView addAnnotation:annotation];
should be followed by
[annotation release];
since the mapView retains the annotation.

Bob

1) sorry, but I had no idea there was no compass on the iPod Touch. (Is that supposed to be common knowledge?)
That explains why the App runs error-free but doesn't actually do what its supposed to.

2) The author does not indicate specifically that it won't work on iPod Touch.

3) I was wrong about my own device - I actually have a 4th Gen. iPod Touch, not a 2nd. Gen. (but I guess that doesn't really matter if none of 'em support compass anyway...)

4) thanks for pointing out the other problems with this particular lesson - especially the memory leak one and the landscape/portrait mode issues - good to know.

I'll be getting an iPhone soon, so I look forward to testing/fixing this app on it...

thanks as usual Bob