How do I change the appearance of my Xcode app? - objective-c

I'm trying to create a dark mode for my application made in Xcode 8. My first though was to use Mojave's Dark Aqua, but I get many errors:
Unrecognized effect parameter type 10 encountered for effect type 1131375730. Skipping.
My next idea was to create my own .car file, using https://github.com/insidegui/AppearanceMaker. However, this did not change the background/window, even when I edited its Windows and Menus/Menu/Menu Background and its Colors/Window Background.
My third idea was to use El Capitan's Dark Theme (for the dark Menu and Dock, I'd assume). However, this changed the Aqua blue to a grey. Laaaaame.
What am I to do?

At the end of the day, Mojave's DarkAquaAppearance worked! I needed to set my NSWindow to the theme. (using yourNSWindow.appearance = [[NSAppearance alloc] initWithAppearanceNamed:#"DarkAquaAppearance" bundle:nil];, making sure that DarkAquaAppearance.car is in your "Supporting Files")
If you want to do the same, I have all the Mojave appearances in https://github.com/radzo73/Mojave-Appearances. It still will call errors about "Unrecognized effect parameter", but that's probably just the compressed assets, and I'm using an older system. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With (real) hope,
Conrad

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Scene rendering goes dark after calling LoadScene/LoadLevel [duplicate]

I completed Unity's roll-a-ball tutorial and it works fine. I changed a couple of materials to make it look better. I also added a C# script that should restart the level when the player falls off of the ground (I disables the walls). I am using Unity 5.5.
It initially looks like this:
But when I go off the edge and the level restarts, it looks like this:
It sometimes looks like this for a few seconds after opening unity when the editor is loading.
Here is the script:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class DeathTrigger : MonoBehaviour {
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
}
void OnTriggerEnter (Collider other)
{
if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"))
Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel);
}
}
Any ideas on what's causing this?
The colors and materials are loaded. This is a lighting problem because lighliting is still calculating in the background. This will likely occur in the Editor only. This should not happen in the build.
Depending on your Unity version, you can fix this by going to Windows --> Lighting --> Settings then go to the Scene tab. Scroll down and disable Auto Generate checkbox then click the Generate Lightning button.
For older version of Unity with no Auto Generate checkbox, see here.
After play with Lighting tools, only one thing should be change on Lighting Setting for every scene.
Window > Rendering > Lighting (Unity 2020)
Click at Environment Tab
At Environment Lighting, change Source from Skybox to Color.
Select white color from Ambient Color.
Done. Try test it.
Before
After
I found many solutions online but I was missing out a step, so I hope this helps.
Most solutions indicated to go to Windows->Lightning, then untick Auto and Click Generate Lighting. My problem was that while I was pressing the generate button I did not have all of my scenes loaded for preview (at least not the scene I had problems with), so it was only applying light generation to the loaded scenes. Make sure all scenes are loaded when generating the lights.
Try Clearing Baked Data if you are using unity version around 5.5
Go to Windows->Lightning->Untick Auto->Now Click dropdown arrow of Build Button which is near Auto(Check Box) -> Select Clear Baked Data.
Now try Your code which looks fine although SceneManager.LoadScene (1); is enough.
Also unloading the previous scene and setting new scene as active scene is a good practice.
This worked for me.
File > Build settings > player Settings > (on the left) Graphics > (Top-Right) gear icon > Reset
I'm a newbie and none of the advice on web helped me. However when I went to Window > Rendering > Lightning > scene tab; If "lightning setting" says “none”, click on it and choose “demo”- setting. Press “generate”.
So it seems like it was missing settings all together which made the scene go dark when loaded.
I encountered the exact same problem. What worked for me was to set Directional Light > Light > Mode to Realtime. (it was Baked, for some reason)
I hope this can help someone in the future.

Icons, Asset Catalog and Info.plist confusion

I have an app that started life for iOS 5 and has been updated ever since. For iOS 7 I have switched over to using an Asset Catalog for all the resources, which is nice and appears to work well. However, when I try to submit to Apple I get validation errors:
Invalid Image Path - No image found at the path referenced under key 'CFBundleIconFiles': 'Icon#2x.png'
I get the same error for the other icons, too. These icons do appear in the Asset Catalog and the names -- right down to the case -- match exactly as far as I can tell. The Asset Catalog is in the "Copy Bundle Resources" and all the resources appear in the right place when I run the app on both my iPhone and iPad (in iOS 7) and in the Simulator for iOS 6.
I have updated the app to use the minimum deployment target of iOS 6.
So, how do I successfully submit my update to Apple? Do I need the references in the Info.plist? Are there any other settings that I should check? Is the warning spurious and something that I should ignore (after raising a Radar)?
When an asset catalog is compiled for iOS 6 and lower, the images are put in the root of the app bundle, as if you were just copying them the old way. When this happens, Apple names the images according to the asset name, rather than the filename, which means we can still use +[UIImage imageNamed:] to get the assets on iOS 6 and lower.
This is true for the App Icon asset, when we have the following icons set in our asset catalog:
They become compiled like so:
As iOS 6 is still iOS 6, these files must be referenced in the Info.plist, otherwise the existing system wouldn't work. Looking in the compiled Info.plist for this test app, you see that Xcode has added CFBundleIconFiles for us and so we don't need to.
I have uploaded the test project I used to github.com/danielctull-tests/AssetTest.
Okay, so here is what I ended up doing. I'm not 100% sure it's correct but I thought that it was worth sharing.
I removed CFBundleIconFile, which I don't think is used in iOS 6 and above
I used the asset name rather than the icon filename in CFBundleIconFiles
I'm not clear what the proper names are so, for the sake of clarity: by icon filename I mean the name visible in the Attribute Inspector of the Asset Catalog when the icon is selected; and by asset name I mean AppIcon, which refers to seven actual icons in my case.
This both passes Apple's validation step and appears to look okay. I don't currently have an iOS 6 device but it displays correctly in the Simulator.
I had also a lot of Problems on this matter - I was constantly getting the error with the missing CFBundleIconName and that my Icons where not found. So here is my story, maybe it will be of help for somebody. By the way, I am using Visual Studio with Xamarin.
Add an Asset Catalogue to your Project with AppIcons (the actual name of the asset is not important but just that it is for the application icons). Add all of the necessary icon sizes. For the 'App Store' icon I have added an icon without a # in the name as someone in the forums suggested, but I am not sure, if it is 100% necessary. For generating the different icon sizes there are a lot of Websites and tools that can do that for you and you just need to provide the 1024x1024 one. They will generate the rest.
In the Info.plist under 'Visual Assets' and then 'App Icons' set the source to the asset that you have just created.
Now check your Info.plist. Do not open it with an external Editor, because all of your changes will be overwritten once you build your project. Do the following - right mouse click on the Info.plist in the Solution Explorer then select Open With -> Generic PList Editor.
Check that you have the following entries:
-Property = CFBundleIconName, Type = String. Value = Assets.xcassets/AppIcons.appiconset
-Property = XSAppIconAssets, Type = String. Value = Assets.xcassets/AppIcons.appiconset
Note that Visual Studio automatically adds, when it adds something altogether, 'Resources/Assets.xcassets/AppIcons.appiconset' as the Value. But in my case the Asset Catalog was created outside of the Resources folder and therefore, my icons where not found. So, check where your assets folder was created.
CFBundleIconFiles was not needed, because Apple uses the Asset Catalog instead now.
I hope that I was of some help :)

Launch screens supporting iOS6 and iOS7 - forced to splash screen

When it comes to the launch screen I can't find a unifying way to mimic the look of the application on both iOS6 and iOS7 (supporting both). Are we forced to make a regular splash screen of a logo or similar if we have a toolbar menu or do you guys have any great ideas how to solve it?
Short answer
In iOS 7, an app can use a different launch image depending on which version of iOS it’s running in. To provide different launch images, add the UILaunchImages key to the Info.plist file and use a dictionary to describe each launch image.
Background
It uses the following keys:
UILaunchImageName - A string containing the name of the PNG image file. The image file must reside at the top level of the app bundle.
The name you specify for this key should not include a filename
extension, nor should it include modifiers such as #2x, -568h,
~iphone, or ~ipad.
On disk, your image filenames may still include the #2x, -568h,
~iphone, or ~ipad modifiers as appropriate, although they are not
required. The system automatically accounts for such modifiers when
choosing which file to load.
UILaunchImageMinimumOSVersion - for iOS7 this should be a string “7.0”.
UILaunchImageOrientation – String containing one of: Portrait, PortraitUpsideDown, Landscape, LandscapeLeft, LandscapeRight.
UILaunchImageSize – String specifying width and height, ex: “{320, 480}”. You must specify the width and height with respect to
the device in a portrait orientation. In other words, portrait and
landscape images targeting the same device would have the same width
and height.
If this key is present, iOS 7 uses it exclusively to obtain launch
images.
BUT: I found that sticking to the naming convention also for iOS7 helped a lot!
This key is supported in iOS 7.0 and later.
OK – so now what?
Because I already had launch images for iOS6 and with all their specific naming conventions. I chose to make a copy of all of them and prefix the name with ”iOS7-” so as to limit my own confusion about all the different sizes and names. Making a prefix should prove to come in handy as then most of the images would immediately be loaded correctly.
The filenames:
I had these for iOS6 already, I also list the file sizes for those in need:
Default.png (320x480)
Default#2x.png (640x960)
Default#2x~ipad.png (2048x1496)
Default~ipad.png (768x1004)
Default1024x768.png (1024x768)
Default1024x768#2x.png (2048x1536)
Default-568h#2x.png (640x1136)
Default768x1024.png (768x1024)
Default768x1024#2x.png (1536x2048)
Default-Landscape~ipad.png (1024x748)
Default-Portrait#2x~ipad.png (1536x2048)
So I made a copy of all of these filenames for iOS7 (same sizes) prefixing them with "iOS7-":
iOS7-Default.png
iOS7-Default#2x.png
...
In XCode
Now to create your entry in PLIST. Go to your-name-of-application.plist. In a blank area, right-click and choose ”Add Row”. Make sure it becomes a top item and not a sub-item of some other information in the .plist.
Write:
UILaunchImages
Right-click on this UILaunchImages and select value type ”Array”.
Use the illustration below as a guide to the text and for how it will look when it is all finished:
If you open up this array so the little indicator triangle to the left points down, it is empty the first time, but if you choose ”add row” while it is open it will create a sub-line. Do that now:
Right-click on the UILaunchImages and select ”Add row”.
Right-click on this new line (item 0) and select value type ”Dict”
Continue opening this items with the triangle indicator and right-click and ”Add row”
This item you will name UILaunchImageMinimumOSVersion and set value type to “string” and the string to “7.0”
Now the following are all strings and should be at the same level as the UILaunchImageMinimumOSVersion item. In the same dict (dictionary). Create these by just choosing “Add row” for each:
UILaunchImageName – base-name-of-iOS7-launch-image. In my case this was ”iOS7-Default”
UILaunchImageOrientation - example: Portrait
UILaunchImageSize - the size of the elementary base iOS7-Default.png: "{320, 480}". The program will find all the files with permutations of the base name. Remember to select the base name of the file without ipad/iphone/portrait/landscape or .png specifications.
Note:
Xcode had already made the following items in the .plist for me after first adding iOS6 images in all available slots :-)
UILaunchImageFile~ipad … = ”Default” – so this was OK
UILaunchImages~ipad … Had two items that needed to be updated to iOS7 versions, because they where now incorrectly holding the iOS6 version. Those I had named Default1024x768 and Default768x1024 and now I just prefixed ”iOS7-” to each of the names and I was done.
Example of how it may look for those wanting to edit plist directly:
<key>UILaunchImages</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>UILaunchImageMinimumOSVersion</key>
<string>7.0</string>
<key>UILaunchImageName</key>
<string>iOS7-Default </string>
<key>UILaunchImageOrientation</key>
<string>Portrait</string>
<key>UILaunchImageSize</key>
<string>{320, 480}</string>
</dict>
</array>
[edit by jd: fixed spelling of "UILaunchImages"]
Highlight the project in the project browser, select "General", scroll down to "App Icons", click on "Use Asset Catalog", and select "Migrate". Your existing icons and splash screens will be automagically migrated into an asset catalog. You can then select the catalog to add further images.
To add new images you simply drag from Finder and drop into the squares for each image type.
(Caution: The catalog editor inexplicably uses a non-scrollable wide format, and you can be missing stuff off the right side if your screen isn't wide enough.)
You can also use the new image catalogue feature in Xcode 5 to manage multiple versions of launch images.
Now you can directly add the app icons and splash images in the images.xcassets,
Click on + button to add the respective image set for iphone5 with iOS 5,6,7 ,iphone4, iPad.
now no need to set the images name like default.png,default#2x.png
Be warned when using an images.xcassets repository it will not allow you to localize your splash screens.
I'm currently trying to get a French and English version of our app.
WWW> Will this 'plist' method work if you need to localize your splash screens?
I also had the same issue with an older app that I developed for iOS 7. It Archived and Uploaded fine with Xcode 6, but the "binary not optimized for iPhone5" error returned with Xcode 7. After trying a myriad of other solutions, I was only successful by removing all references to any Launch Image (since I was using a universal .xib) AND setting the deployment target from 7.0 to 8.0

AIR custom transparent chrome problem Flash Builder 4.5.1

I'm re-creating an AIR app with FB 4.5.1. (I've started from scratch, having had trouble importing FB 4 projects).
In the app.xml I have the following defined:
<systemChrome>none</systemChrome>
<transparent>true</transparent>
Having done this I still get a full window with titlebar, min, max, and close buttons.
what gives?
I believe you need to create a skin for the application.
This appears in Adobe's forum, and includes an FXP of a functional transparent app:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/476699
Setting systemChrome & transparency along with "backgroundAlpha" to "0" would have helped in Flex 3.
But, skinning of components in Flex 4 i.e Spark components is little different and completely customizable.
Following are the steps you need to do make the window transparent.
Set systemChrome to "none" in the XML configuration file
Set transparent to "true" in the XML configuration file
Copy the skin code from <SDK_FOLDER>\frameworks\projects\airframework\src\spark\skins\spark\S parkChromeWindowedApplicationSkin.mxml and paste in a new MXML file.
Set the "alpha" property of "backgroundRect" object inside the skin file to "0".
Assign the newly created skin as the "skinClass" for "s:WindowedApplication" object
Please import the attached FXP file using "File->Import Flex Project" menu and have a look at the code to make it much more clear.
First, I discovered it is easier to interact with app.XML by opening it via "Open With -> Text Editor".
Second, and this is really embarrassing, I had simply failed to remove the comments bracketing
was:
<!-- <systemChrome>none</systemChrome> -->
<!--<transparent>true</transparent>-->
should have been:
<systemChrome>none</systemChrome>
<transparent>true</transparent>
...duh! I knew better, but...
Lastly, for a completely chromeless app, add
showStatusBar="false"
to the app header.
that's it!

Flex 3 loading background color

During loading of a Flex 3 built application, it always shows this blue-grayish background color. I've tried a handful of tips, building preloaders etc, and all that works, but even before the preloaders kick in, that blue-grayish color is displayed. I've tried lots of ways to change it, like editing compiler options, setting background image to an empty string etc, but nothing works.
I had this same issue and spent a good hour looking for a solution. To the best of my understanding, the blueish-grey color is directly set from the HTML file generated from index.template.hmtl. There is a binding in that file under <param name="bgcolor" value="{bgcolor}" /> that sets the background color. I'm assuming that bgcolor should be pulled from the backgroundColor you set in your Application. And you could also just try hard coding your value in that param also.
To get past the default 'bluish' background on loading to say...white, add this to the compiler arguments: -default-background-color #ffffff.