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So... how do I add a RootViewController?

by Joe O · in iTorque 2D · 06/07/2012 (9:09 am) · 6 replies

I've been banging my head on iAds for the last few days. When I add the iAd banner as a subview I can't click on it, when I set the viewController's view to the iAd banner the layout gets completely horked but I can click on it just fine. Something is going on with the events and in some cases, if I setup the frame before I add the viewController to the window, all input is squashed except for clicking on the iAd. What's interesting in that case is it will let me click the ad, then I can click any of my other buttons after that first click.

I have a hunch it probably has something to do with the fact that we don't have a rootViewController. Has anyone successfully added a rootViewController to their project? I'd love to give it a test.
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Torque Owner John Vanderbeck
VanderGames
#1
06/07/2012 (4:15 pm)
1.5.1 has a root view controller, and we should hopefully be seeing that preview release very soon.

It essentially involves creating a new project with one, and migrating everything into it.

Torque Owner Paul Jan
#2
06/07/2012 (10:22 pm)
If you really need to add a rootViewController now (iOS 5) :

http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/21550

Torque Owner Joe O
Average Joe Software
#3
06/08/2012 (7:37 am)
Thanks Paul - I'll give it a go and see how it works out.

Torque Owner Joe O
Average Joe Software
#4
06/08/2012 (7:46 pm)
Hey Paul -

Thanks again for sending the reference. I made all the changes and added the proper reference files to my project. I did run into one snag though...

Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
  "_iPhoneRunTorqueMain(objc_object*, UIView*, UIApplication*)", referenced from:
      -[TGBAppDelegate applicationDidFinishLaunching:] in TGBAppDelegate.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Should I just create a TGBViewController in TGBAppDelegate and pass it into the function expecting it? Do I need to add the view controller to the window as a subview?

Apologies for the noob questions - I'm no expert in the iPhone UI bits.

[i]edit[i] I usually ask a question right before I do something... I think I've got a handle on this part, or at least how to get it to build...

But now I'm hitting some crazyness:

2012-06-08 19:58:31.090 RBMC[36813:1c403] -[GLKView setIsLayedOut:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x9eadfd0
2012-06-08 19:58:31.093 RBMC[36813:1c403] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[GLKView setIsLayedOut:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x9eadfd0'
*** First throw call stack:
(0x22f1022 0x34fccd6 0x22f2cbd 0x2257ed0 0x2257cb2 0x3639bc 0x101aa1e 0x327da5 0xf514be 0xf52274 0xf61183 0xf61c38 0xf55634 0x26ffef5 0x22c5195 0x2229ff2 0x22288da 0x2227d84 0x2227c9b 0xf51c65 0xf53626 0x333def 0x2bc5)
terminate called throwing an exceptionsharedlibrary apply-load-rules all
Current language:  auto; currently objective-c++
(gdb) bt
#0  0x9c0949c6 in __pthread_kill ()
#1  0x998d8f78 in pthread_kill ()
#2  0x998c9bdd in abort ()
#3  0x03a18e78 in abort_message ()
#4  0x03a1689e in default_terminate ()
#5  0x034fcf17 in _objc_terminate ()
#6  0x03a168de in safe_handler_caller ()
#7  0x03a16946 in std::terminate ()
#8  0x03a17b3e in __cxa_rethrow ()
#9  0x034fce15 in objc_exception_rethrow ()
#10 0x02227de0 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific ()
#11 0x02227c9b in CFRunLoopRunInMode ()
#12 0x00f51c65 in -[UIApplication _run] ()
#13 0x00f53626 in UIApplicationMain ()
#14 0x00333def in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff5d4) at /path/Xcode_iPhone/../../../../engine/source/platformiPhone/iPhoneMain.mm:357

I did do a few things... such as this in TGBAppDelegate:
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {

    _iPhoneTorqueFatalError = false;
    TGBViewController *view = [[TGBViewController alloc] init];
    [window addSubview:view.view];
    
    if(!_iPhoneRunTorqueMain( self, window, view ))

Any thoughts about where I went totally wrong? Thanks!

Torque Owner Paul Jan
#5
06/08/2012 (9:52 pm)
I've got the code block in applicationDidFinishLaunching
_iPhoneTorqueFatalError = false;
if(!_iPhoneRunTorqueMain( self, window, application ))
{
	_iPhoneTorqueFatalError = true;
	return;
};

moved over to viewDidLoad in TGBViewController.

You won't need to alloc a TGBViewController, the storyboard should take care of that.


Looks like my readme.txt instructions are incomplete - theres TGBAppDelegate files that the readme doesn't tell you to use in there. Ugh. Must fix.


Torque Owner Joe O
Average Joe Software
#6
06/09/2012 (12:35 pm)
Thanks - that tip helped. I just need to figure out how to integrate my ad view controller now.

One thing I did notice though... It looks like the view does not completely fill the screen on the simulator. I just went into the storyboard and tweaked the simulated metrics on the GLKit View Controller. That seemed to do the trick :)