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Entries for March, 2009

How-To: Remove grey shadow from iPhone UIWebView

By default, when you create a clickable HTML element in a webpage (or in HTML that is displayed in a UIWebView) the iPhone adds a grey shadow/box thing over the top of it when you touch it. Sometimes you don’t want this ‘highlight’ to appear – or you want it to be another color.  Here [...]

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AFL iPhone: Footy 2009 available now

WSP Online Solutions have just launched Footy 2009 – a fantastic fully featured AFL app which is now available on the App Store.   You can purchase it from the App Store here. It features: Latest AFL news fully licensed from the ABC, displaying full news articles within the App. Live Scores including game details, [...]

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How-To: Solve ‘modifying layer that is being finalized’ iPhone SDK

Okay, so I’ve been getting the ‘modifying layer that is being finalized’ error message when i’m trying to release a subview from a superview: [self.popupPreviewView release]; self.popupPreviewView = nil; The best way to solve this (that I’ve found – please post a comment if you can provide a better one) is to remove the view [...]

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