Visual oddities in my iPhone app

[lrieber]

Hi all,

I'm developing for the iPhone with LiveCode and I'm new at it. I built an app and it's been running just fine in the iPhone simulator for the last month.

I finally paid my $99 to get a Developer Certificate from Apple in order to test it on my actual iPhone. When I do so, I get all kinds of odd visual problems: Screens inexplicably going to black except for a single text field, washing out buttons, etc. (The buttons are still there and still work, but you just can't see them.) I also have some simple animation that produces similarly bizarre visual results: screen going to black except for the graphic about to be animated, single lines drawing on the screen, and an odd narrow pyramid shaped graphic appearing on the screen in an off white color at the spot where the animation occurred.

I'm using LiveCode 4.6 and Xcode 4.2. I'm using an iPhone 4 using iOS 5.

Are there special display settings for stacks, cards, objects, animations, etc. that I need to make when deploying to iOS?

I've studied the LiveCode User Guide and the iOS Deployment Release Notes (R36), but can find no specific mention or advice about these sorts of visual oddities.

I've also looked all over the RunRev Web site for more resources and advice on iOS deployment. I've found lots of tutorials and lessons, but very little specific documention. I've also browsed this forum for general advice on these questions, but didn't find anything directly relevant.

BTW, I'm using "Revision 30 – 2011-03-25 – Mark Waddingham" of the iOS Deployment Release Notes (R36). Is there a more current copy somewhere?

Any help or advice will be appreciated.

Lloyd

[CALL-151]

Unfortunately, LiveCode 4.6.x is not iOS 5 compatible. You'll need to upgrade to LiveCode 5.0.

[FireWorx]

If your not doing so you need to keep whatever .png files you are using for button icons and populating your image controls with in a folder that you select in the "copy files" tab of the standalone settings prior to testing and building a standalone. If you aren't doing this you will most definitely get weird visual oddities.

I am experiencing a weird visual oddity myself with my splash screen showing correctly then inverting just prior to the open card on launch. I am using 5.0 L.C. on IOS 5.0. Anyone?

[CALL-151]

The flipping splash screen is a bug in LC 5.0.0. A fix is reportedly on the way.