I want a gloss effect like that images sent in native sms app, I saw that native sms app used a ImageBubbleMask and a ImageBubble to achieve the effect. Can anybody tell me how to do this? Any answer is appreciate.
Have a look at the following tutorial and see if it helps do what you're after? http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/sms-bubble-ui-iphone-apps
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This is a bit basic but I have been struggling finding good documentation around NSFontManager and CTFontManager to achieve this. So here's the scenario:
Keynote (or any other existent app from a different developer) opens a file which uses a font that's not activated.
My app has the font and I use CTFontManagerRegisterFontURLs or one of the similar methods to get it activated.
Keynote gets a notification that the font is now available.
I would imagine there's a NSFontManager notification for missing fonts, but haven't found anything. The notifications seem to be within the sandbox of my own app. Does anyone here have an idea where I can find anything that does this (or almost does this)?
Thank you so much.
Can anyone help me think of an app that uses a set of almost wireframe instructional elements before the user starts using the app? I know I have used a few apps like that. They will show a stencil of a hand and show you how to work through the app. I am working on a UX exercise and I need some ideas on how to incorporate something like that into my project to help the user to get up and running faster in my application. Any help would be much appreciated.
Yes, that pattern is called "coach marks" and is available in many apps. You can see it on The Weather Channel's new weather app for the iPhone or iPad (shameless plug). There is also a reference on coach marks, with many examples which can be found here.
i would like the app that i have created on wp7 to display alerts on the live tiles. I was going to use push notifications to do this. So, whenever there is an alert, the app will produce a push notification and then the live tile would display the push notification alert. I have tried to find sample codes on msdn and i have not found much. Does anyone know any code sample for wp7 that would help.thank you!
MSDN has extensive howto articles and sample code; there is even a How to: Send and Receive Tile Notifications for Windows Phone which sounds like it should do what you need.
This may be of help to you: Windows Phone 7 notifications. I went to a Windows Phone camp and came away feeling that there are, in fact, very distinct notifications and you have to make sure you're working with the right type for the right job. That link covers the types and their purposes, but did want to give you a heads up on that.
can anyone give me a clue on how one can make skype like notifications alert popups using win32 api's.
In window one can show balloon tips using shell_notifyicon(..) but it doesn't have any look-and-feel.
I would be very thankful if someone guide me a little on this topic.Also how do we decorate win32 windows as skype did?
You can write your own. As a starting point, you can have a look at my code here:
StatusBarMsgWnd.h
StatusBarMsgWnd.cpp
I want to write a basic app so I can upload some images to my personal server and as the CMD+Shift+4 Screen capture method apple offers doesn't let you upload your images I thought I would start from scratch... I've looked around quite a lot on how to make something what lets me grab a selection of my screen (like the crosshair apple offer) and can't find any samples/pointers however I've seen other tools such as gyazo use the exact same capture system apple offer :S... Is it some sort of framework I can access in Xcode or something?
If anyone knows how its done I would be very grateful.
Thanks
Liam
You can just run screencapture(1) and capture to a temporary file location which your app then reads.