[MonoTouch] Flipboard for iPhone page flip effect

Wed Dec 7 15:40:55 EST 2011

Make it a gin & tonic!

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Pavel Sich <pavel.sich at me.com> wrote:
> I believe that this is what they do (or at least, this is how I would go
> with it):
>
> 1) get image content of the view I want to flip with:
>
> UIGraphics.BeginImageContext (view.Bounds.Size);
>
> view.Layer.RenderInContext (UIGraphics.GetCurrentContext ());
>
> var viewImage = UIGraphics.GetImageFromCurrentImageContext ();
>
> UIGraphics.EndImageContext ();
>
>
> 2) then just split the view in half and place it in two UIImageViews
>
>
> 3) place these two views on top of your view you want to appear being
> flipped (folded)
>
>
> 4) using the view.layer.transform call the rotation transformation with
> pivot point exactly at the top and middle of the view, which will make it
> appear to flip and fold there
>
>
> 5) job done, have drink :-)
>
>
> Cheers & happy coding.
>
> --
> Pavel Sich
> @sichy
>
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> 1. Re: Very weird crash (Rodrigo Kumpera)
> 2. Re: Can no longer debug on iPad device. Please Help (sisnaz)
> 3. Flipboard for iPhone page flip effect (Steve Eichert)
> 4. Localization of system controls (johnHolmes)
> 5. Hanging when "Updating Xcode project" (Mg)
> 6. Re: Localization of system controls (Robert Jordan)
> 7. Re: Localization of system controls (Robert Jordan)
> 8. Still IntPtr Constructor issues (Rene Ruppert)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:08:32 -0200
> From: Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at xamarin.com>
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Very weird crash
> To: Pavel Sich <pavel.sich at me.com>
> Cc: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
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> Hi Pavel,
>
> Can you fill a bug report with a reproducible test case. A pie on the sky
> guess would be that you have some types that are been linked away
> and this is causing this error.
>
> At the very least, MT should be fixed to give you an usable error message.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Pavel Sich <pavel.sich at me.com> wrote:
>
> From time to time we receive error: Assertion at
> ../../../../../mono/mono/metadata/object.c:1779 complaining that the object
> is not of type class (it tries to ensure that the parameter is not value
> type) and app subsequently crashes.
>
> From desymbolicated crash log and stack trace, we can see it happens just
> after to the call to our code that is using JSON with objects attributed
> with [DataContract] and members with [DataMember], however these are plain
> wrapper classes that have no functional code in them. Just plain data
> contract classes.
>
> Has anyone experienced similar issues? This is pretty bad for us, we are
> close to production of major financial app and this is making us nervous as
> all seems bit too fragile to depend on it.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
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> Pavel Sich
> @sichy
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:15:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: sisnaz <jdegrey at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Can no longer debug on iPad device. Please
> Help
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> Hi Rolf, I was running MonoTouch version 5.0.1. I just updated to 5.0.3 this
> morning and it seems to be working again.
>
> (bang head on keyboard to continue)
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:35 -0500
> From: Steve Eichert <steve.eichert at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MonoTouch] Flipboard for iPhone page flip effect
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> Can anyone offer any guidance or suggestions on how to create a page
> flip effect similar to what the Flipboard for iPhone app provides?
>
> http://www.flipboard.com/
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> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:00:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: johnHolmes <francesco.colombo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MonoTouch] Localization of system controls
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> Hi,
>
> I'have recently developed a small application using monotouch. The
> applications works fine except I'm unable to have "system" or "specialized"
> controls like UITabBarItems or MFMailComposeViewController localized
> (translated) in languages other then English. My testing device is an
> iphone4 and is configured to use Italian as culture. The application runs
> fine, but titles of UITabBarItems or the buttons of the
> MFMailComposeViewController still show English text. How to have them
> translated in Italian?
>
> thanks
>
> Francesco
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:05:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mg <mgreger at cinci.rr.com>
> Subject: [MonoTouch] Hanging when "Updating Xcode project"
> To: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
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> Running MonoDevelop 2.8.4.1 and the latest Mono and MonoTouch and using
> Xcode's interface builder.
>
> I am working on a universal app and I just started working on the iPad xib
> files in Xcode when this problem showed up. Everything has been fine with
> iPhone xib's up to this point so I don't know if it was caused by the latest
> version update or something else.
>
> After returning from making changes to my xib in Xcode (nothing special,
> just a few buttons and labels), MonoDevelop will become unresponsive for up
> to a couple minutes while "Updating Xcode project". Eventually it will time
> out with this message:
>
> System.Exception: Error ScriptError: Xcode got an error: AppleEvent timed
> out.
> at MonoDevelop.MacInterop.AppleScript.Run (Boolean compile,
> MonoDevelop.MacInterop.AEDesc& scriptData) [0x00012] in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MacPlatform/MacInterop/AppleScript.cs:107
> at MonoDevelop.MacInterop.AppleScript.Run (System.String scriptSource)
> [0x00010] in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MacPlatform/MacInterop/AppleScript.cs:83
> at MonoDevelop.MacInterop.AppleScript.Run (System.String
> scriptSourceFormat, System.Object[] args) [0x00000] in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MacPlatform/MacInterop/AppleScript.cs:74
> at MonoDevelop.MacDev.XcodeSyncing.XcodeMonitor.OpenProject () [0x00006]
> in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.MacDev/XcodeSyncing/XcodeMonitor.cs:343
> at MonoDevelop.MacDev.XcodeSyncing.XcodeMonitor.UpdateProject
> (IProgressMonitor monitor, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 allItems,
> MonoDevelop.MacDev.XcodeIntegration.XcodeProject emptyProject) [0x0037b] in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.MacDev/XcodeSyncing/XcodeMonitor.cs:146
> at MonoDevelop.MacDev.XcodeSyncing.XcodeProjectTracker.UpdateXcodeProject
> (IProgressMonitor monitor) [0x00000] in
> /private/tmp/source/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.MacDev/XcodeSyncing/XcodeProjectTracker.cs:315
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:44:51 +0100
> From: Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Localization of system controls
> To: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
> Message-ID: <jboc88$g1i$1 at dough.gmane.org>
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>
> Hi,
>
> On 07.12.2011 19:00, johnHolmes wrote:
>
> I'have recently developed a small application using monotouch. The
> applications works fine except I'm unable to have "system" or "specialized"
> controls like UITabBarItems or MFMailComposeViewController localized
> (translated) in languages other then English. My testing device is an
> iphone4 and is configured to use Italian as culture. The application runs
> fine, but titles of UITabBarItems or the buttons of the
> MFMailComposeViewController still show English text. How to have them
> translated in Italian?
>
>
> Add this to your Info.plist using a text editor:
>
> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
> <string>it</string>
>
> Previous MonoDevelop versions used to have GUI for this setting (IIRC),
> but I can't find it anymore. Maybe it got lost during the redesign
> of the Info.plist editor...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:46:03 +0100
> From: Robert Jordan <robertj at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Localization of system controls
> To: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
> Message-ID: <jbofr7$agg$1 at dough.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 07.12.2011 19:44, Robert Jordan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 07.12.2011 19:00, johnHolmes wrote:
>
> I'have recently developed a small application using monotouch. The
> applications works fine except I'm unable to have "system" or "specialized"
> controls like UITabBarItems or MFMailComposeViewController localized
> (translated) in languages other then English. My testing device is an
> iphone4 and is configured to use Italian as culture. The application runs
> fine, but titles of UITabBarItems or the buttons of the
> MFMailComposeViewController still show English text. How to have them
> translated in Italian?
>
>
> Add this to your Info.plist using a text editor:
>
> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
> <string>it</string>
>
> Previous MonoDevelop versions used to have GUI for this setting (IIRC),
> but I can't find it anymore. Maybe it got lost during the redesign
> of the Info.plist editor...
>
>
> Ah, it can be added with the "Advanced" tab of the "iPhone Application"
> settings. Go figure ;)
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 20:55:24 +0100
> From: Rene Ruppert <rene.ruppert at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [MonoTouch] Still IntPtr Constructor issues
> To: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
> Message-ID: <FFA16D42-323E-4D7A-B726-42A8568DDFB2 at googlemail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm still struggling with the IntPtr Constructor issue I started on SO.
> I got a bit further meanwhile.
>
> The case is: I'm subclassing UITableViewCell and do not provide the
> IntPtr:ctor.
>
> By adding the ctor and breaking in there I figured out what ObjC wants my
> class to do: it is calling void SetSelected ( bool selected, bool animated
> ).
>
> This means "something" wants to select my cell. I looked through my code and
> found exactly ONE place where I call SelectRow(). I commented that out and
> STILL it goes through the ctor and to SetSelected().
>
> What are my options now? Does UITableViewCell maybe always require the
> IntPtr ctor?
> What could possibly still select a row in a UITableView besides SelectRow()?
>
> Ren?
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