Complications - string length - AW hangs

Sounds like a bugreport for sure. I haven't seen that one, as most long strings I tried just cut off in the complication field. When you say 'number of signs' what do you mean? Do you mean in a string formatter? How are you building the strings?

Are you using the text complication templates that have long and short strings, or just long strings?

textTemplate.textProvider = [CLKSimpleTextProvider

textProviderWithText: string /* shortText: shortstring */ ];

I found that passing a nil argument to a CLKTimeTextProvider will crash the watch. It does not freeze for me though, it looks like the watch reboots when the template is submitted. I've submitted a bug for that case.

Thank you for your response. I build strings in the following way:

NSString *numberOfNotesInString = [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"%i REC", nil),number];
complication.line2TextProvider = [CLKTextProvider textProviderWithFormat:@"%@", numberOfNotesInString];

If I change the REC to RECS for instance, the device will hang (when you turn on bold fonts; regular fonts will hang the device when you set %i RECORDINGS). I tried providing the NSLocalizedString directly to textProviderWithFormat but the result was the same (i.e. the device hangs). I keep preparing the string this way just for better readability of the code.

I'm no expert in NSLocalizedString, but from a quick look I suspect your usage is a problem. Are you using it and then running 'genstrings' to generate the table? Are you running 'genstrings' every time after you change from REC to RECS, for example? Also, I don't believe it meant to be used with a formatter string like that, but that's just from a quick read of the doc here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Miscellaneous/Foundation_Functions/#//apple_ref/c/macro/NSLocalizedString

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I don't think it has anything to do with NSLocalizedStrings. I have both REC and RECS in my Localizable.strings and they are properly recognized within the app. When I change the translations to, e.g., R RS respectively, everything works flawlessly.

For testing, I also changed the line to:

complication.line2TextProvider = [CLKTextProvider textProviderWithFormat:@"%@", @"wabakutimbu"];

So there are no localized strings, but the problem persists. If I put it in the getPlaceholderTemplateForComplication, it hangs even the simulator.

Interesting, this sounds like a bug with textProviderWithFormat: then, as I have passed longer strings and not seen crashes, but I was not using textProviderWithFormat:.

If you use the NSString creation with format, then pass it to:

[CLKSimpleTextProvider textProviderWithText: (yourstring) ]

Does that work for you? I have passed longer strings on the watch and they are just cut off using this method.

Thank you! That did the trick - strings get trimmed properly. I will report the bug with textProviderWithFormat.

Glad it helped. Thanks for the warning about the broken one as well!