Category Archives: iPhone

Just a quick note today. I’ve previously written here (and also here: whoops!) about my UIButton+NavButton category, which I use to create my own “back” buttons for navigation controllers, so that I can cross-fade them properly. It turns out that … Continue reading →

Let’s add on to our previous CATiledLayer demo by implementing zooming. This is one of those things that worked a lot better than I thought it would, but, arguably, still didn’t work well enough. The built-in zoom support in CATiledLayer … Continue reading →

Let’s take a look at a CATiledLayer demo. I first ran across the CATiledLayer class when I was looking into a multithreaded, tiled, vector-graphics rendering solution for the Demine project. I didn’t pursue it at that time because it looked … Continue reading →

When I discussed how to resize UIPickerViews last year, I touched upon the fact that a UIView’s transform property is rather unusual; according to the documentation: The origin of the transform is the value of the center property, or the … Continue reading →

I’ve previously written about getting fixed-width fonts to display properly on the iPhone. Today I’d like to add a little to that discussion, and show how you might create a (very simple) ncurses-like display on the iPhone.