Those "grumble, I just spent an hour and a half tracking down WHAT?!" moments

[fury]

Since the iPhone SDK is under NDA, I won't be talking about the iPhone SDK. Instead, I will be talking about something completely unrelated, but which may or may not coincidentally be highly similar. Please don't sue me.

tried to curb my swearing, sorry if I slip up, this kinda really peeved me

In this certain "builder" program, there are buttons that have attributes like a checkbox labeled "Show Pressed Feedback" ... that when checked, it actually breaks the fracking thing, generating a cryptic error upon attempting to Build & Go, saying "[UIImage encodeWithCoder:] unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x48de70". Normally, doubleclicking a compiler error would direct you to precisely where in the code your error occurs; this one, instead, points to nowhere in particular in the mizzle fizzling xib file. And then when you open the son of a blessed saint file, it has absolutely no reference to UIImage or any sort of selector of that kind, which is the sole complaint of the error.

(Apparently, it has to do with not having put an image on the button, but that wasn't very fiddlesticking obvious! It just said "Show Pressed Feedback" and I figured hey, it's a button, it might as well TELL you when it's been pressed...right?)

I spent an hour and a half trying to track down this issue only for it to end at unchecking a SINGLE fluxing checkbox and saving the goddamn nib.

[coasts]

Since the iPhone SDK is under NDA, I won't be talking about the iPhone SDK. Instead, I will be talking about something completely unrelated, but which may or may not coincidentally be highly similar. Please don't sue me.

tried to curb my swearing, sorry if I slip up, this kinda really peeved me

In this certain "builder" program, there are buttons that have attributes like a checkbox labeled "Show Pressed Feedback" ... that when checked, it actually breaks the fracking thing, generating a cryptic error upon attempting to Build & Go, saying "[UIImage encodeWithCoder:] unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x48de70". Normally, doubleclicking a compiler error would direct you to precisely where in the code your error occurs; this one, instead, points to nowhere in particular in the mizzle fizzling xib file. And then when you open the son of a blessed saint file, it has absolutely no reference to UIImage or any sort of selector of that kind, which is the sole complaint of the error.

(Apparently, it has to do with not having put an image on the button, but that wasn't very fiddlesticking obvious! It just said "Show Pressed Feedback" and I figured hey, it's a button, it might as well TELL you when it's been pressed...right?)

I spent an hour and a half trying to track down this issue only for it to end at unchecking a SINGLE fluxing checkbox and saving the goddamn nib.

good luck with all that.

[Lincoln]

I loved your replacement words. 'Mizzle fizzling' is great.

- John

[psylichon]

I always liked "mother freckle"

[up10ad]

fury, stop using the Turbo Pascal compiler for the iPhone. LOL

[termleech]

Obviously someone is a BSG fan. Fraking builder

[fury]

All Apple employees are Cylons.

[Lincoln]

All Apple employees are Cylons.

Watch it, I worked in my local Apple Store for a year or so...

- John

[fury]

You're one of the ones that doesn't know he's a cylon

(I might end up working at mine soon to cut down on my driving time, since it's only 30 minutes away as opposed to an hour away)

[ZodiacfreaK]

haha I got a laugh out of reading this. I have done things just as stupid as this before!