Fix: Breakpoints stop working in XCode
Breakpoints stop working?In xcode go to Preferences, select the page for Debugging then make sure "Load symbols lazily" is NOT selected.
View ArticleStuff to setup on XCode preferences
Layout->Layout: All In OneLayout->Open counterparts in same editorLayout->Automatically clear logIdentation->Syntax Aware Identing->All checks ON
View ArticleNSAsserts
NSAssert(theDate == nil, @"Argument must be non-nil"); To deploy without NSAsserts:In the Debug version, you will want all your asserts checked. In the Release configuration, you will not. I will...
View ArticleSuck it down
“Everything in life is a tradeoff. If you want to write software for the iPhone, you’ll just have to suck it up and do it instead of complaining.”
View ArticleMemory Release
- (IBAction)goButton:(id)sender { AClass *ourObject; ourObject = [AClass alloc]; // Do stuff with ourObject…. [ourObject release]; ourObject = nil; }In the second-to-last line, we send ourObject a...
View ArticleConvenience constructors
By now you have probably noticed in the class documentation that most Cocoa classes have a set of class methods that are named in the format +className.... These special class methods are called...
View ArticleRetainVsCopy
Here's a simple guide for retain or copy. Use retain when the object represents a relationship. Use copy when the object represents a value. The difference is this: in a relationship, if the object...
View ArticleStickIt; Vacations Days 1, 2, 3
The first 3 days of StickIt went well but a bit over the top.I spent the time configuring Eclipse CDT with the IrrLicht engine, XCode library building, lots of compilers flags to twiddle around, all...
View ArticleFInder And File Path Woes
Its incredible how little things make up the difference. Finder's GetInfo does not use a blocke textedit box to show the file path, hence the user cannot copy/paste its value! Simple but major! I...
View ArticleRunning irrLicht on CDT!! YES!
Ok, here's the solution:I'm new at gcc compiling, so this took a while fiddling, but now I got it, its simple once you know.To have irrLicht running on CDT we need to setup opengl, carbon and cocoa...
View ArticleDay 4
The day was passed learning about IrrLicht API and discovering this nice library called Newton for physics.In the night, I was able to find some documents on integrating IrrLicht and Newton.
View ArticleEclipse Ganymede is Out!
This is great. The CDT is beautiful now.It also is amazing how we can use it.TIps:VERY USEFUL ones:When looking for symbols, don't open the .h, just open the file tree on the Project Explorer. Much...
View ArticleDay 5
I've used most of the day to try to build the PAL (Physics Abtraction Library) to work with Newton. A lot of "make" messing around turned no nothing. The make file is broken.Of course, that, since the...
View ArticleResetting an Apple portable's System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
View ArticleDay 6
Most of the day was to get a joint going in newton, the stick and the joint!Of course, my abtraction programmer mechanism set in and I just had to go and make some nice wrapper for irrlicht game loop...
View ArticleDay 7
Spent the day learning some tutorials on Newton, checked out out the Newton Playground app. Checked collisions and basic joints like ball-and-socket and hinge. Very very nice. This is the physics...
View ArticleDay 8
Today I spent the afternoon at work browsing model formats, MD2, MD3, OBJ, 3DS, there's a ton of them and for the most part nobody has a clue what's the better one. One is for sure, MD2's suck a bit...
View ArticleGCC and Visibility flag
-fvisibility=default|internal|hidden|protectedSet the default ELF image symbol visibility to the specified option—all symbols will be marked with this unless overridden within the code. Using this...
View ArticleVisibility warning solved
Ok, I was getting all those nasty visibility warnings on my compiles.Irrlicht is not using the __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) to make things public when we set the global -fvisibility=hidden...
View ArticleDay 14
Today I bought an hand model from Gamasutra Exchange and I just dropped it in the engine! Beautiful! It was very easy to do it in Irrlicht, only the lights are a bit off, must investigate it.Also, the...
View ArticleDay 12-13
Changed from iPhysics into irrNewt, some problems, but I figured it out! Looking good.I've imported a simple hand model in .3ds and besides looking stupid the hand doesn't lit up!I've downloaded and...
View ArticleDay 19 All day
Today I mucked around doing gvar, a singleton service for my system classes. Fun. But not quite what we're looking for to do. A game is not fun coding! Ah!I also mucked around with boost::bind. Quite a...
View ArticleMac Kernel Panick Fix
Well, I got the gray screen of death on the mac.To solve I mucked around until I got the fix:For Panic:Tue Aug 5 22:08:01 2008panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001694C6): "vm_map_unwire: entry is...
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