Comments for Do, or do not - Rafael Steil

Comment on Crappy iOS APIs – UINavigationController by TotoMAvha

TotoMAvha — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:15:48 +0000

Thank you Rafael!!

Regards.

Comment on The status of Swing in 2011 by Andre Brito Fonseca

Andre Brito Fonseca — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:58:19 +0000

I agree. If someone learns how to build desktop applications using Swing, probably that someone be traumatized and think that destkop development is chaotic as Swing is.

Comment on The status of Swing in 2011 by Roger Leite

Roger Leite — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:53:18 +0000

Hi Steil! Great post.
Before going with Swing, i’d try two options:
- Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/) with GTK
or
- Glade (http://glade.gnome.org/) to design interface and some language with GTK binding, like Java, Python or Ruby.

In the past i worked with a python application and Glade in interface. It was great.

Comment on Setting up Git colors in the terminal by Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:09:09 +0000

Nice post! It really helps!
Thank’s

Comment on Crappy iOS APIs – UINavigationController by Rafael Steil

Rafael Steil — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:48 +0000

@maxime, yes, that way it works, but as you said, it’s not natural and fits on my complains about the API. Also, setting it in the previous controller sometimes mixes too much logic from two different classes (like, for example, when the logic for the back requires some more work).

Comment on Crappy iOS APIs – UINavigationController by Maxime Guilbot

Maxime Guilbot — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:45:19 +0000

Hey,

You can actually use self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem to override the back button but you have to do it in the viewDidLoad method of the previous controller, not the controller that is getting pushed.

Not the most natural thing but really works.

Comment on Omit unexpected XML Elements with XStream by Rafael Steil

Rafael Steil — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:37:33 +0000

Ouch, you’re right. For some reason I was only considering that method for serialization purposes. Thanks for the tip Chris, I updated the topic to include this information.

Comment on Omit unexpected XML Elements with XStream by Chris Khoo

Chris Khoo — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:09:25 +0000

XStream allows fields to be omitted from serialization/deserialization by using XStream::omitField() function.

Hope this helps.

Comment on Crappy iOS APIs – UINavigationController by Rafael Steil

Rafael Steil — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:18:10 +0000

Hey Johnny,

I have had some problems with this kind of animation as well. In my case, I was trying to execute a code after the call to animated:YES, but (I don’t know why) the OS just ignored any further code.
My deduction is that the animation block it uses internally interferes somehow in the rest of the code that might run while the animation is in place.. I don’t remember exactly what my situation was, but you may want to look for some initialization code in viewWillAppear or in the code just after animated:YES.

If you want (and can), add the piece of code here.

Comment on Crappy iOS APIs – UINavigationController by Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:59:17 +0000

I can not agree more!!!

I’ve gone crazy trying to figure this all out and it really is close to insanity… you would think that the simple things would be simple to implement and with all the glory of Xcode and IB… but NNNNOOOOOOOOOO… something (that is usually not documented) has to come out and bite you in the ass every once in a while.

My latest issue with Xcode is that my app crashes when pushing a view controller with “animated” set to “YES”, but it works fine when “animated” is set to “NO”.

*literally going to bang my head against a wall*