Annoying Cancel Bug
One of the users of Fossil reported the following issue with the application.
There’s a bug with the cancel button that sometimes just won’t work. It just doesn’t do anything unless you manage to hit a tiny action area on the button and in some sections of the app the only way to workaround this was to set an item as favourite and then remove it from favourites.
This is the pesky little “Cancel” button that does not seem to work once in a while.

There is no special code logic in Fossil for this particular screenshot and the list of buttons shown in the view are created using standard UIKit UI elements. In other words, we assumed it be to a quirk of SDK 2.2.1 and which we thought will be fixed in SDK 3.0. But it seems to be still around.
We are aware of the problem and we are going to chase it with Apple support if there is a workaround for this or if we are using the SDK incorrectly. In the meanwhile, you may work around this issue by clicking on the top part of the Cancel button to make it work. A screenshot below shows the area of the Cancel button which seems to repond to touch.

Thanks for your patience.

October 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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