SPButton at the bottom in IOS7

Meingjord

Hi,
I just upgraded my system to Xcode 5 for IOS 7.0 (GM).
To make sparrow work again, I got the latest version from Github, I had a black screen before with an OpenGL error but that's working now again.

However, I encountered a problem that seems to be IOS 7.0 related.
I have a back button at the bottom, just like in the sample project.
This button is working fine in the simulator, but on my iPhone 4S it's not working properly any more.

What happens is that when I push it, it remains stuck in a pushed down state. Maybe after a long while it works again.
When I move it 40 points up, it works normally.
I'm afraid the problem is somehow Sparrow fighting with the new IOS control center, that gets activated when dragging up from the bottom of the screen. I think that the control center shortly takes away the focus somehow, making the button stay down instead of triggering.

Please share your thoughts on this. I'm wondering if this is an issue with sparrow, if I should try to find a workaround, or if I'm doing something wrong. Any help will be appreciated!

Cheers!

Shilo

Hello,

I did some testing and didn't have any issues on iOS 7 simulator. Are you testing on simulator or device? Also, I have had an issue like this in the past where the buttons seemed to be stuck on the "down" state. My situation was, I was using a custom button (not an actual SPButton) and adding an event listener for SP_EVENT_TYPE_TOUCH. The cause of the problem was due to the addEventListener: method being called twice and the event handling contridicted each other, to where it displayed "down" state at the end of a touch.

Another cause for a down state showing after a touch, would be if you have a custom button class and don't add support for SPTouchPhaseCancelled.

Are you using an uncustomized SPButton, or other?

Please test my sample project and see if you have the same issue, the project can be found here:
http://cl.ly/RPXQ

Screenshot of my testing in the sample project:

Meingjord

Hi, thanks for the response!
In my project it all looks fine on the simulator, the problem is on the real device.
I am using an uncustomized SPButton, nothing fancy

I'll try running your sample project but have to restore the project link first. Couldn't find the sparrow reference, and when I'm adding it again I get a link error for the sparrow library. My Xcode is a bit rusty in this respect. I'll figure it out.

Tried running the Sparrow demo project, but that's giving an OpenGL error like I had first with my own project too. Strange this isn't solved, because I'm on the same sparrow version as my project.

Meingjord

fixed the link error
it turned out that i had to close another project before adding the reference...

your project seems to work, i'll keep digging for differences...

Meingjord

Actually the problem is solved by setting "View controller-based status bar" to NO in the plist.

I noticed that in your app there were first the drag handles showing for the control center and notification center, but in mine it immediately started dragging somehow.

Now I'm stuck with another problem, since I fiddled with the Deployment target suddenly there is an exception loading sounds, because the SPSound in Media.m from the scaffold project returns nil suddenly. No clue why..

At least the buttons are doing what they are supposed to be doing now.

Meingjord

Never mind the sound issue.
[SPAudioEngine start] failed on the openAL initialization for whatever reason
Restart of the iPhone simulator made the problem go away

I'm good now, thanks for the help!

Shilo

Glad that you figured out the control panel issue, I didn't expect the control panel to allow activation right away if the status bar is showing. I hope there's a setting in the API to explicitly set it to where it has to be pulled up twice to activate like when the status bar is hidden. But since iOS 7 isn't public yet, I have had tons of trouble finding API references and documents on various iOS 7 API features.