iphone-sdk-3.0

I know soft shadows are not supported by the UILabel out of the box, on the iPhone. So what would be the best way to implement my own one? EDIT: Obviously I will subclass the UILabel and draw in the -drawRect: My question is, how do I get the contents of the label as graphics and draw around them, blur them etc... EDIT 2: I returned to this question about a year later. In the meantime I've built a class that allows you to easily add soft shadow to a label and tweak it's radius etc and also to draw gradients on the text itself. You can find it on GitHub: https://github.com/doukasd/iOS

Is it possible to reverse Geocode your current location on SDK 3.x? I need to simply get the zip code of the current location. The only examples I've seen use CoreLocation which I dont think was introduced until SDK 4. lukewar You can use MKReverseGeocoder from 3.0 through 5.0. Since 5.0 MKReverseGeocoder is depreciated and usage of CLGeocoder is advised. You should use CLGeocoder if available. In order to be able to extract address information you would have to include Address Book framework. #import <AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h> #import <CoreLocation/CLGeocoder.h> #import <CoreLocation

From what I understand by using code like this: NSURL* appUrl = [NSURL URLWithString: @"URL"]; [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:appUrl]; I can open Map, YouTube, Safari, Mail, iTunes and the App Store, when a user say presses a button. But I was wondering is it possible to open the Settings app with this method. Basically, the first time the user opens my app I want a UIAlertView to pop up to let the user know that they can change a specific setting if they want, and either they press OK or they press settings to take them to the settings app. I know that Apple do that in some

I'm trying to figure out how to catch the event that controls the switch tabs on the UITabBarController . How could I accomplish this? If you are using storyboard, do this in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions UITabBarController *tabBar = (UITabBarController *)self.window.rootViewController; [tabBar setDelegate:self]; Also in AppDelegate, keep <UITabBarControllerDelegate> And then -(void) tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController { //Write your code here } Implement UITabBarControllerDelegate e.g. in your app delegate's