Card Images - corrected

I have properly assigned the correct pictures to their respective cards. I did this by checking the order the cards were in compared with the order the pictures were in. This proved to be an entertaining exercise considering my lack of car knowledge. However I eventually managed to correct this irritating issue.

Currently I am working on the crash problem that occurs during gameplay. I have made progress in that the app crashes significantly longer into the game than it did so before. However I believe this is because a different issue entirely. I am now in the process of diagnosing why exactly the crash occurs. It appears to be due to a random element as I cannot pinpoint if it occurs after obtaining, or losing, a specific number of cards.

User & Tech Guide - iPhone web pages

I have just finished implementing the User and Technical Guide pages as iPhone compatible web pages into my native application.

I essentially did this by coding the raw html for these two pages, substituting the required text into the respective html files. I added meta data so that the text would be displayed at 480 pixels wide (the iPhone resolution).

I then created a separate style sheet to style the different elements of the page. Namely the 'div' tag, adding a nice rounded rectangle effect, and the 'p' tag to style the text as Helvetica and of 18px, to give a more iPhone feel.

Testing that these files worked as expected in the simulator I then wanted them to load natively within the application. I added them into the Xcode project where they appeared under Resources. I then looked up the corresponding view controller for the views I wanted to display the web pages into.

Using this approach the web pages successfully rendered. However they couldn't be styled by the separate style sheet due to addressing issues. I therefore had to include the stylings in both web pages locally.

Implementation

Progressed significantly in the implementation today. The cards and deck now initiate correctly.
Stumbled across a brilliant website called http://www.iphoneexamples.com/ which has some great algorithms which I am tempted to implement.

Priorities:

High:
Get the game working by modifying the IBOutlets for selfTurn which return int values. I think I can implement this a different way.

Medium:
Get the picture of the cards to show up

Low:
Test the activity notifier

Currently the game part of the program is completely broken and non-operational. Need to find some way of correcting a lot of flawed logic (maybe remove the disputed cards concept).

Implementation extended

The implementation stage of my project has officially been extended. The reason for this decision was due to the huge amount of runtime errors that were occurring.

I have spent the last week trying to resolve these issues. By consulting the Cocoa Memory Management guide for iPhone I have been able to resolve a lot of these issues.

One of these problems was the use of convenience methods in the init methods of my custom classes.

However, while resolving these issues I have spotted further potential problems in more code which now needs resolving.

All in all, I have made significant progress but there is still more debugging and a little coding to be done.

Implementation - completed

All errors have now been resolved and coding is completed. However, I am unable to commence testing until an oddity in the application presenting a white screen on startup, and nothing more, is resolved.

There are a few features that have been looked over in this implementation of the project. This includes the gamekit multiplayer aspect of the game which I feel I can't include until the code implemented so far is seen to be meeting specifications.

Further documents are in the process of being updated for the draft deadline tomorrow which include; the project plan - which needs to be updated with the latest entries, the test plan - which is not complete but need to be updated to include a user feedback form, and the project document which needs to be reviewed before submission.

Implementation - progress

Made significant progress by getting the file reading operations to work!

The process within Xcode and Objective-C 2.0 is to incorporate the files to be read from into the project within Xcode, usually within the 'Resources' folder. You then assign a string with the full path of the file to be read by applying a method onto the project's bundle object. It is then possible to read from the file.

A few problems associated with file reading and data management remain. Such as, assigning attribute names to an array of string objects and arranging the card objects into a 'random' order.

Next on the agenda is performing research into the implementation of the GameKit framework and then implementing the multiplayer aspect into the game.

Implementation - progress

After coming back from the winter break I have cleared all occurring errors from the implementation. Some errors were caused by incorporating cyclic links within different class files which I therefore decided was not necessary for the implementation nor required by the specification. Further errors included improper definition of an array.

With these errors resolved I am ready to move onto incorporating the file reading capabilities of the program in order to read in data corresponding to each individual card.