Comments on: Beginners iPhone Action Game Tutorial: Source Code

By: Sudhanshu

Sudhanshu — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:01:07 +0000

Hi,
This is really a great tutorial, I think this was the kind of tutorial I was looking for.

Great work and THANX A LOT!!!!!!

By: Seepsoda

Seepsoda — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:41:31 +0000

Really impressive, thanks. I am new to iPhone development and got your balloon game running without a hitch – thanks! What a smooth intro into iPhone game writing. You and the clever guy at Sparrow are super heros!

Thanks! Looking forward to the full tutorial, and thanks for allowing full use of the source.

Keep it up

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:36:00 +0000

You're welcome! I'm surprised that the problem did not pop up more often — perhaps some users downloaded Sparrow manually and followed its installation instructions before trying out the tutorial. In that case, they'd already have the variable defined.

In my opinion, it's a bug of Xcode that it writes out this recursion error — a small warning that a non-existing source-variable is referenced would be much more useful!

BTW, thanks for editing the project =)

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By: maniacdev

maniacdev — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:48:56 +0000

Thanks for telling me about it. There were probably some others that just didn't speak up.

By: 9livesoftware

9livesoftware — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:27:28 +0000

thanx maniac and daniel it works fine now xD. haha i guess Im lucky number 1

By: maniacdev

maniacdev — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:24:48 +0000

Thanks for the info Daniel. I removed that reference should be ok now. I guess this only causes a problem in isolated cases where xcode cannot open up a certain directory?

Over 200 downloads only one person posted about the issue.

By: Jeff Thrower

Jeff Thrower — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:19:31 +0000

I want to build an app, i don't think I could make a living, selling apps.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:56:18 +0000

The problem you describe often occurs when your project references a “source tree” variable (Xcode – Preferences – Source Trees”) in the project or target build info, but the variable does not exist. I guess Xcode then tries to search your complete system (“/**”) for include files, and gives up after a certain number of directories — thus the weird error.

I just had a look at the project, and indeed, it references the source tree variable SPARROW_SRC in the target info (build tab), which is not needed in this project, as Sparrow is included directly (not by project reference). To remove the error, just remove this reference.

Maniac, you could remove this setting from the project for your final tutorial (or the download link). Thanks!!