Comments on: How To Read a File From Your Application Bundle

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:55:52 +0000

Hi and thanks for the help,

I have sucessfully read the text file in, however it isn’t full justified. How can I achieve full justification?

Thanks

By: miss e.

miss e. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:05:14 +0000

can i have full simple code about reading from txt file using xcode??

please..i am still new on this

thank you.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:16:45 +0000

This is great! However I can’t get a UITextView to display a simple string from a text file. I even used your exact code:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];

NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”untitled” ofType:@”txt”];
if (filePath) {
NSString *myText = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
if (myText) {
textView.text= myText;
}
}
}

By: Bigo

Bigo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:43:08 +0000

Thank you very much

I am new to Objective C
I have tons of web and script development knowledge, but this by far is the toughest project I have ever embarked on, but I guess I am going to have to take baby steps with this one.

Thank you very much

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:56:22 +0000

@Steven: To download a group of files you could package them in a zip archive and then unpack them on the iPhone. But since there's no native support for zip archives containing multiple files, this is a bit tricky. It is much easier to have an activity indicator while the web assets are loading. See the sample code attached to this post for an example of how to do that.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:12:53 +0000

Hey, I thank you in advance – I’ve learned a lot from your blog so far and was hoping you can help me answer a question:

How would I go about either downloading a group of files from a manifest on my server, which I’d then use as assets within in a UIWebView

OR – keep a loading screen up until all of the content within a UIWebView has been loaded?

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:46:10 +0000

@Bigo: Caching content from news feeds that change frequently is a big task. I have literally spent weeks on some projects to implement and fine-tune this particular feature. And there’s no one recipe that fits all situations. So your question is a little bit beyond the scope of a blog post.

By: Bigo

Bigo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:53:17 +0000

Nick,
first thanks for your kindness

I want to read in data from an rss(xml) feed and populate that data in iphone accordingly—- images, headlines and subtext.

I have to achieve this dynamically as many times throughout the day this rss will be updated.

My concerns, how do I read in this data —
and upon getting this data and parsing it how do I manage it so it is availble offline (core data) or (sqlite) ???

I know memory is an issue, I guess thats another convo

Please help out kinf SIR!!!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:57:28 +0000

@matthew: If you're trying to load a local HTML file into your detailView, then this post might help.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:33:47 +0000

This is great. I have been searching everywhere and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

I am trying to accomplish a similar task as mira. I am trying to create detail pages for multiple points on a map. All of the name, subtitle, lat, long, icon and detail html page information are loaded into the plist.

name
Title
address
Subtitle
latitude
28.416721
longitude
-81.581667
imageName
Custom_icon.png
bulletName
Custom_icon.png
detailURL
test.html

These items repeat for each item located on the map. Clicking the “calloutAccessoryControlTapped” loads a new detailView, which is a UIWebView and that is where I want these detailed pages to load.

I have the detailView loading fine and pulling a local HTML file, but it is hardcoded in the filepath. I would like to load the unique “detailURL” pages from the plist.

Would you have any idea (he asks hopingly) on how I might accomplish this? Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community.