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Objective-C Tip: Switch Statements

Scyanide — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:48:49 +0000

During one of my sessions of working on the iPhone game. I noticed something very strange within Objective-C.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 switch(someVar) { case 1: int x = 5; // Expected expression before 'int' break; ... }

Apparently, this will get a compiler error as it expects an [...]

XCode: The Starting Curly Brace

Scyanide — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:09:32 +0000

As I dive deeper into the world of programming for Apple hardware I bring along with me past practices or habits that I must change in order to fit into the Objective-C world. It has been years since I last touched C/C++ and coming from a world of .NET and C#, my first impressions [...]

iTunes Error 7: Missing CoreGraphics.dll

Scyanide — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:54:29 +0000

So, I get home from work today only to find that iTunes on my windows machine would not start up. I kept getting the message that CoreGraphics.dll was missing and that I should re-install iTunes. I really don’t know HOW this could have happened as I have not installed/uninstalled anything on here.

I searched [...]

I’m Back!

Scyanide — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:18:19 +0000

So I’ve been neglecting this site for awhile now. For those of you who read this blog, I apologize for being so quiet. I ended up taking up 2 jobs which took up a lot more of my time than I had realized and I didn’t have much time to work on my game [...]

Out of Town

Scyanide — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:09:42 +0000

I’ll be leaving for a week, starting today, for a work related trip. Nothing much to say about it but I won’t be able to work on my game any until I get back due to the lack of owning a laptop. I really need to buy a laptop one of these days. Anyways, [...]

Basic Framework Showing

Scyanide — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:03:36 +0000

I’ve been working, somewhat slowly, on building the framework as mentioned in an earlier post. I started work on building the units and the player unit. Not much for show at the moment but I do have enemy units going towards the player’s base, or “castle”, and after 10 hits it is destroyed. Later [...]

C# and the readonly keyword

Scyanide — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:55:32 +0000

I came across something interesting today and thought I’d share this small bit of information to the world. While this made me scratch my head for a second or two it really does make sense. In C#, and I assume VB.NET as well, we have the keyword readonly which allows one to initialize a [...]

Carving Out The Framework

Scyanide — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:15:49 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of programming lately on what I hope to a completed game one day. I will not go into any details of the game at first but I will give some programming insight through my perils of putting this project together and hopefully you’ll figure out exactly what the game [...]

TomTom for iPhone Released!

Scyanide — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:29:18 +0000

Just giving out a quick note that the iPhone version of the TomTom software has been released today! It is up on the App Store for $99.99 for the U.S. and Canadian version.

C# Gotcha or /Facepalm moment?

Scyanide — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:30 +0000

So I was playing around with a little idea and while putting together a simple class, very hastily I might add, I accidentally did something that caused a StackOverflowException to be thrown.

1 2 3 4 5 private Int32 someValue; public Int32 SomeValue { get { return SomeValue; } }

This is a very [...]