A new Gideros Studio beta with plugin support is here!

atilim

for sure.

Caroline

Thanks, I'll be patient - I got stuck on an event listener.

Caroline

I guess I'm not so patient - anyway, I got past that problem, and I was hoping it's possible to write a Core Data plugin.

(I don't think that a basic UIKit plugin example would cover this question.)

I've worked out how to create a simple Core Data database in Objective C code so you don't have to set it up through the Xcode xdatamodel, but I'm having trouble creating a Persistent Store (that's where the database actually gets created on disk).

I get this message:

*callFile* stack NOT ok begin:1 end:2 delta:-1

Instead of creating the Persistent Store, I substituted that command with creating a plist file to the same directory, and that was OK, and creating a directory was OK, just not the database Store.

(This is inside the plugin, so creating a plist in the plugin works.)

Does that message mean anything to you? And why would this line change the Lua stack when the plugin's not even talking to Lua at that precise moment?

NSPersistentStore *newStore = [coordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:url options:nil error:&error];

(I checked with NSLogs before and after this line, and it's crashing on this line.)

My url is created from this string (and I have checked the directories exist and the file doesn't):

/var/mobile/Applications/A5DF3B7D-0083-42C5-B761-D55325DFF030/Documents/CBCoreData/documents/caroline.sqlite

Also, if I actually manage to create a database using a plugin, should I be directing it to Documents, or the player's special app subfolder documents?

ie

/var/mobile/Applications/A5DF3B7D-0083-42C5-B761-D55325DFF030/Documents/MyAppName/documents

or

/var/mobile/Applications/A5DF3B7D-0083-42C5-B761-D55325DFF030/Documents

Edit:
Oh, maybe it's threading? I guess I have to do Core Data on the main thread, so it may not be possible to do this at all?

atilim

The line:

*callFile* stack NOT ok begin:1 end:2 delta:-1

means you are leaving the Lua stack dirty. Maybe you forget a lua_pop? But I cannot predict the main crashing reason.

To get a full path of a file (e.g. "|D|caroline.sqlite") you can add this function to your project:

const char* g_pathForFile(const char* filename) { const char* pathForFile(const char* filename); return pathForFile(filename); }

and use g_pathForFile("|D|caroline.sqlite");

This function will return the correct full path of the file at documents folder.

(Side note: Although rendering is done on a different thread, Lua codes are executed on main thread always)

Caroline

Maybe you forget a lua_pop? But I cannot predict the main crashing reason.

It seems odd that if I replace that command with a simple write to plist command, then it works fine. I will continue to investigate...

To get a full path of a file (e.g. "|D|caroline.sqlite") you can add this function to your project:...
...Lua codes are executed on main thread always)

Thanks .

Caroline

On a related note, |D| will give documents, and |T| will give temp - is there a Library one?

Or is that |R| for resources?

atilim

exactly. Both g_pathForFile("caroline.sqlite") and g_pathForFile("|R|caroline.sqlite") are same and return the full path at resource folder.

MikeHart

Keep in mind that you can't write to the resource folder. You need to copy your resource to the document folder and work wirth that one. Resources are read only.

Caroline

So there is no writing to the iPhone Library folder? That's where I normally keep my app assets, so that I don't have to put them in the Documents folder. I do iTunes file-sharing with the Documents folder, so I don't want to expose the assets to the end user.

(By assets, I mean the app's sqlite database, which I don't want the end user to touch)

Caroline

Aside note - OMG! I finally got the Persistent Store creating SUE (Stupid User Error) - fileURLWithPath is different from URLWithString b-(. Gideros plugin interface is sooo cool.

MikeHart

Which one do you use now? fileURLWithPath?

Caroline

Yes. One of those now-it's-so-obvious moments. But at least I can sleep .

MikeHart

Good night then

kindus

Is it possible to implement g_setRootViewController( UIViewController* myOwnRootViewController);?

atilim

I cannot predict the side effects when you try to change the root view controller. But you can modify the root view controller of the exported project as you want.

kindus

Thank you, good idea, but I was going to do it in plugin.

atilim

I understand now. Maybe you don't need to replace the root view controller? Does creating your view contoller and adding the view solve your problem?