So as part of my ongoing iPhone project/learning experience, I’ve been dabbling with threads. Threads are one of things that I’ve known about in programming for a while now, but always had this irrational fear of, and avoided like the plague.
Still, this project required it (the alternative is having the user spend almost half their time waiting for the program - not cool), and so I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and playing with different ways of implementing them.
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Last night, I was working through an iPhone tutorial which involved setting up a Table View based on an array of strings, and then providing the ability to add in extra strings (and have the Table View update itself accordingly). Being somewhat anally retentive as I am, I decided to extend the tutorial slightly so that it would alphabetically order the array before displaying it. So I jumped into the API, and here’re some notes on what I found, which is intended to be reasonably comprehensive. This is intended to be fairly low level (just like me! :P), and will probably repeat a lot of information that can be found in the APIs with some extra notes and comments.
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written by .klik2
\\ tags: NSArray, NSMutableArray
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