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Saturday - Warm again.
Morning was devoted to various chores. I meant to mow the backyard, but it
was too hot by the time I got around to it.
Lunch was at the Thai Cafe.
In the evening I went over to R&S's place, got a haircut, and tried to
install the new version of the app on S's iPads. One was too old, an iPad 1
that was running iOS 5.1.1 and my compiler won't write for earlier than 6,
and a newer iPad running iOS 8.1. On that machine I could provision and
install, but the app which runs fine on iOS7.1 and 8.4 died after starting.
Sigh. One more thing to look into.
Friday - Hot and humid.
It was a miserable hot and humid night, so I didn't sleep well and got up
late.
I did a long walk in the morning, about 8.5 miles, and made a point of
walking fast. And was fine, until about a half mile from home, when I
started feeling ... off. My skin started to prickle, a very strange
sensation. So I rested in the shade of a tree for a bit, and took a good 20
minutes to do that last half mile. Even so I averaged 3 miles per hour
overall.
The it was a cold shower and a rest for a bit, and lunch.
Worked most of the rest of the day on the app.
I replaced static images of text with UILabels and the closest font
(Helvetica Neue, go figure).
I also looked into accessing the iPad's SETTING-General app from our
app, but that isn't officially supported. I thought, in iOS 8, that it was,
but it turns out that you can only access the setting for
your own app, but not the General settings. People have hacks, but
they aren't supported or condoned by Apple. So the Language button, for now,
just creates a pop-up to tell you to go to Settings.
I have no idea why Apple won't support a per-app localization, it'd be
fairly easy - people's hacks show how it could be done, but that's Apple,
kind of random.
Thursday
30 July 2015
Thursday -
Warm again. And humid.
I worked on the app all day, though I had to knock off, shutdown and
unplug the system from the wall about 3:30pm, when we began to get
thunderstorms with lightning strikes fairly nearby.
But the Settings page is coming along. I made an effort to keep things
simple and objectified, and the source code for that view is still under 300
lines of code, which is nice.
There were some emails from my brother, the old Grandview house waterline
has sprung a big leak, so (since the city was threatening to turn off the
water) he's contracted a plumber to fix it. It's ancient galvanized iron,
the same line that gave so much trouble back when I was remodeling the
house. The plumber said the whole line needs replacing, and I agree, and
it's going to cost thousands of dollars, because the house is on a hill, and
they'll have to pothole down about 8 feet, then over and out to the
sidewalk.
He also wants to reline the sewer, which again I think I mentioned as an
issue, some years ago...
We've been setting money aside, each month, into a repair fund, so there are
monies available, but it'll really deplete it.
Roger at the top of Mt. Baden-Powell.Wednesday 29 July
2015
Wednesday - Warm.
I did some shopping in the morning, I'd let things decline in anticipation
of being gone, but it looks like work won't start, at the earliest, for
another three weeks or so. Ah well.
Worked on the app.
One of the things we discarded, but decided to bring back, was a little
demonstration image on the Settings page in the app. So I had to generate
some artwork for that, and then create overlays and logic to change things
when people changed various settings on the page, to show what things would
look like. It was similar, but not identical, to stuff I had in the old
version.2 back in February.
Tuesday - Working away on the app.
Cleaning up some logic, re-doing some artwork, fixing various things.
A thing I need to do is to create an instructions page (view). I can just
use a text view, or get more elaborate with Documentation or QuickLook
views. QL is attractive because it's basically an already created reader by
Apple that your app can call up, so you just create a Word or PDF document,
copy it into the app's resource folder, and point QL at it, no muss and no
fuss. Supposedly.
Seen on
the way up: a glider over Mt. Baden-Powell.
Monday - Warm.
Not much to say. I spent some time talking with S about the app, and then
started making changes and updates. Since the inspection work has been
delayed, again, it's time to knuckle down and get stuff done!
Sunday - Roger & I did our mt.
Baden-Powell hike. We got started from Lancaster a bit late - I was having
trouble with my hydration pack and finally just borrowed a spare from Roger,
and got to the trail-head about 10:15.
The trail-head at Mt. Baden-Powell.
It was a good day for a hike, beautiful in fact.
By 10:30 we were on the trail heading up. There were a lot of cars in the
parking lot, and we met a lot of people coming down
as we went up.
Since we were both out of shape it took us a while to get to the top, but
when we did it was almost deserted, which was nice. We enjoyed the view, the
mild zephyrs (really, normally it's blowing pretty hard up there, but it was
very mild this time), took a few pictures, then headed down.
Back in Lancaster I dropped off Roger, then headed home for a long hot
shower!
