Category: Improvements and bugs

• August 29, 2018

  Xcode 10 Storyboard Changes

  

  Note: You can also watch a video of this lesson at Lynda. com and LinkedInLearning.  There’s been a few changes  to the storyboard in Xcode 10, some might just drive you crazy if you don’t know how to use them. Some are really cool and will speed up your workflow. Let me show you the…
• July 25, 2018

  UIColor Class Extensions

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I added  a column on converting hex colors to UIColor. That was a function you had to copy and paste into your code. I’ve also shown you how to use the assets to keep color names handy. What would be even better is to do all that directly from UIColor.…
• July 31, 2014

  The Joys of Beta Swift: A Change to Outlets

  I went to open the pizza demo to get ready for my next post and was greeted by 10 compiler error messages, all the same. ‘IBOutlet’ property has non-optional type ‘UILabel’ Just after I finished the optionals post, It turns out there a change in Beta 4. Before Beta 4, and as described in Apple’s…
• April 22, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: The Bug Hunt

  

  Since my last post I got my first one-star review of SlippyFlippyPenguin. The Hard Mode bug  did it. Someone else can’t start the game in hard mode. In my last entry, I set up  a timer to fix what I thought is a user-related problem with the game. In the process, I found the real bug.…
• April 10, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: How to make a Countdown Timer in Sprite Kit.

  

  The next item on the update project list is making a countdown timer.  For those who haven’t read earlier episodes of this blog, there is a bug I cannot find. For a very small number of users, the game ends immediately when starting in hard mode. This might just be a user problem not moving…
• April 1, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: Adding a Fading-in and out Label with Background in SpriteKit

  

  Today we have a bug to deal with in SlippyFlippyPenguin. There are a two reports of when a user selects the hard skill level  the game  immediately goes to game over. I cannot find anything that is different in the code to account for this except user error. I think the user error is users…
• March 31, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: Making a High and Low Score Indicator

  

  This is the first of my improvements to the SlippyFlippy penguin game.  While this may not make sense since I have not posted all the game code yet, it might help those trying to come up with some of these solutions for their own games. While playing against  some of my friends on our different…