This update to to DTFoundation is a maintenance release. It adds code coverage monitoring via Coveralls and fixes some very minor issues.
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Radar: Enumerating NSAttributedString Attributes on Multiple Threads causes EXC_BAD_ACCESS
This bug has been causing me grief for the last month or so, as it was hard to pin down without a concrete use case that can reliably reproduce it. GitHub user brovador finally was able to narrow it down to be able to repro it every time.
There appears to be a bug in NSAttributedString that causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if you try to enumerate certain attributes over a longer range on two separate attributed strings from two background threads.
I filed it as rdar://15139980 and on Open Radar. The sample is the DTCoreTextExceptionExample on our Radar Samples GitHub repo.
Xcode Coverage
Code Coverage is described on Wikipedia as:
… a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is tested by a particular test suite. A program with high code coverage has been more thoroughly tested and has a lower chance of containing software bugs than a program with low code coverage.
Less bugs? Yes, please!
TopLayoutGuide 97 Pixels?!
When implementing iOS 7 support for a client’s app I got a result that might stump even seasoned Cocoa programmers.
On iOS 7 views generally go behind translucent bars. To still get your views aligned correctly – when creating them in code – you have to get the responsible view controller’s top and bottom layout guides.
Those get set sometime before viewWillLayoutSubviews and I found it useful to add a viewInset property to the view controller’s base view. Setting this would setNeedsLayout and then you can rearrange the subviews according to the new insets in layoutSubviews.
Radar: Xcode 5 unable to configure inline Unit Tests for iOS and Mac in parallel
The following issue is a head scratcher if you are trying to add unit tests to your project that both run on Mac and iOS. And if you like to use the new inline buttons for executing individual tests.
Filed as rdar://15085316 and Open Radar. The mentioned sample project is the UnitTestTest sample on our Radar Samples GitHub repo.
Radar: Device shuts down even though 19% battery left
I’m seeing this issue on my main phone after having begun to use the iOS 7 GM on it.
Filed as rdar://15056186 and on Open Radar.
DTCoreText 1.6.7
Following the public availability of iOS 7 and having collected a good amount of fixes, I felt that it is a good time to release the next maintenance update to DTCoreText.
Welcome to iOS 7 … Issues
All the while during the iOS 7 BETA phase I’ve been filing Radars and produced samples to go with them to demonstrate the issue to Apple engineers. I wasn’t allowed to blog about these until the general release of iOS 7 and so I kept collecting them in a special folder on my dropbox.
Now that iOS 7 is out I am able to add the samples to my public Radar Samples repo on GitHub. I hope that they can be a good example of how to create samples that allow Apple engineers to quickly reproduce and debug those issues.
MailChimp Launches iPad Editor
More than 3 million people use MailChimp to design and send email marketing campaigns. And today they launched a native iPad client that lets you create and edit such campaigns. For the parts of that which require rich text editing they rely on our DTRichTextEditor component.
