NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", @"http://www.this-is-a-url.com/accept.php?identifier=", uniqueDeviceIdentifier];
urlString = [urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Upload to server: %@", urlString);

Short note: the first line of the example shows you how to concatenate two strings.

So how do you go about including custom fonts in an iPhone/iPad project? Well, it’s not that hard if you’re having a little bit of objective-c experience. You should download the FontLabel library, add it to your project and start creating FontLabel instances in code. I sense you feel the need for an example, so here it is:

FontLabel *questionLabel = [[FontLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, 115, 900, 130) fontName:@"DINPro-Medium" pointSize:30.0f];
questionLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
questionLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
questionLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeTailTruncation;
questionLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.0];
questionLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
[self.view addSubview:questionLabel];
[questionLabel release];

“DINPro-Medium” is a TrueType font included in my resources bundle. Please do mind that FontLabel currently only accepts TrueType fonts, so you might want to convert some of those non-ttf fonts to ttf. A good online font converter can be found here: http://onlinefontconverter.com/

More information and the downloadable source can be found here.

Some example code to get you going:

-(void)viewDidLoad
{
	UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image-in-resources.png"];
	IrregularShapedButton *irrButton = [[IrregularShapedButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom] retain];
	[irrButton setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
	irrButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height);
 
	[self.view addSubview:irrButton];
	[super viewDidLoad];
}
 
- (IBAction)buttonClick:(id)sender
{
    NSLog(@"Clicked:%@", sender);
}

What it actually does:
- It prompts you with the folder you’d like to export
- It takes a copy of the folder and pastes it onto the desktop
- It removes all the .svn files and folders
- It shows the newly exported folder in a finder window
- Your original files won’t be harmed

You can download the compiled automator script here.
If you’d like to change the workflow to fit your own needs (i.e.: you can open your favorite FTP client after the process) then download the automator workflow here.

Just a little sidenote: you can also export your project from your subversion client like Versions or Cornerstone.

Example:

Blurred/Cut Off Characters

var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
textFormat.rightMargin = 1;
 
textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
textField.gridFitType = GridFitType.SUBPIXEL;
textField.embedFonts = true;
textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
textField.defaultTextFormat = textFormat;
textField.setTextFormat(textFormat);

Hope this helps!

So, what about the Number type? Well, I thought the Number type was a very slow type compared to the new int and uint but that also didn’t seem to be right!

Sho just posted a really interested article on why he won’t be using the int data type very frequently in ActionScript 3. Up until reading it, I had believed that as in other languages, there were large performance benefits to using ints and uints appropriately in AS3. Turns out that isn’t the case.

I did some quick testing on this, which confirm Sho’s assertion that int is only slightly faster than Number in ideal circumstances, but the results from uint were much more surprising.

Read the complete post here: gskinner.com

So, there are a few useful things we can do: invest our time into new technologies or play with things (with the technology we daily use) we didn’t play with before. Mostly because we didn’t have enough time back then. The second most useful thing we can do is getting a certificate for the technologies we use every day.

That’s why I got myself certified for Flash CS3. The exam was made up out of 57 questions. I have to admit that the exam wasn’t a peace of cake at all, I thought it would be but some of the questions I had to answer were very complicated and about things I seldom use, like ‘accessibility’ in Flash.
I think I underestimated the exam because I have been developing Flash ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 for about two to two and a half years. Now, this didn’t seem enough because there were a lot of questions about the Flash IDE, embedding video’s, exporting to correct formats, using the correct symbols and there specific use as Adobe intended them.

So, if you are considering getting a Flash CS3 certificate yourself: consider looking around for a good book with a detailed description of the complete Flash IDE and a few basics of the ActionScript Language (both ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0).

This code takes out the characters that are defined in the character_array variable:

// remove \r , \n , & from string
function trimTextChars(text_str):String
{
    var character_array:Array = new Array(chr(13), chr(10), chr(38));
    var inputstring:String = text_str;
    for(i=0 ; i < character_array.length ; i++)
    {
        var temp_array = inputstring.split(character_array[i]);
        for(j=0 ; j < temp_array.length ; j++) temp_array[j] = trim(temp_array[j]);
        inputstring = temp_array.join(" ");
    }
 
    return inputstring;
}

This code removes leading and trailing spaces from a given string:

// Trim leading and trailing spaces from string
function trim(txt_str):String
{
    while (txt_str.charAt(0) == " ") txt_str = txt_str.substring(1, txt_str.length);
    while (txt_str.charAt(txt_str.length-1) == " ") txt_str = txt_str.substring(0, txt_str.length-1);
 
    return txt_str;
}

Enjoy!