UIScrollView, detect scrollable area height without scrolling all the way down - ios

I am trying to log some events when a user scrolls the 50% of the scrollView contents.
I can get the scroll amount with scrollView.contentOffset.y as following:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
NSLog(#"%f",scrollView.contentOffset.y);
}
Swift:
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
print(scrollView.contentOffset.y)
}
As I scroll down to the bottom of the scrollView I can find out about the height of contentArea once I hit the bottom, lets say that value is 2000 and I can hardcode the value of 1000 since I am interested only when user exceeds the 50% of the whole contentSize.
But I want it to be dynamic, since dataSource of tableView might change in the future, which would result in the bottom of scrollView's offset to be greater or less than 2000.
I would like to know if it is possible to detect the maximum contentOffset value for a tableView even before scrolling to the bottom?
Thanks in advance.

There is a property named "contentSize" of the UIScrollView.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiscrollview/1619399-contentsize
You may use this after you populate your table view to get the total height your table view can take.
NOTE: This is valid only if your rows have constant height rather than a variable height

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UITableView content offset of y position always return 0

In scrollview delegate method table content offset while scrolling always return 0 for it's y position.
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
print(items:String(format:"Offset %d",scrollView.contentOffset.y))
}
I have also printed the myTableView.contentOffset.y
But it also prints the same result.
ContentOffset doesn't change when you scrolling. It's origin of your content in scrollView. It defines the point in the content view that is visible at the top left of the scroll view bounds. We can use this property to scroll programmatically .
There is more about it
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiscrollview/1619404-contentoffset
https://www.objc.io/issues/3-views/scroll-view/
Try to track contenView.bounds.origin.y for tracking y-position

Set label text in navigation title when scrolling

In the storyboard, I have a label and many other objects in a UIScrollView. (The UIScrollView is in the view).
I want to set the navigation bar's title to the title of the label when the label scrolls past it.
I've tried this code but it doesn't work:
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
if(self.lbl.frame.origin.x==60) {
self.navigationController!.navigationBar.topItem!.title = lbl.text
}
}
What should i do? I am new to Swift.
First off, I suspect you're actually trying to find the label's y value (i.e. vertical offset) as opposed to its x value, i.e. self.lbl.frame.origin.x==60.
Secondly you don't want the label's frame since that CGRect represents the label's position within the scrollview (which won't change); instead, you want the label's position within the superview.
That said, try this:
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
if(scrollView.convert(lbl.frame.origin, to: self.view).y <= 60) {
navigationController!.navigationBar.topItem!.title = lbl.text
}
}
There are several problems with your code:
self.lbl.frame.origin.x==60 What are the chances that this will ever be true? That's like flipping a coin and hoping it lands on its edge. The top of the label will never be exactly at a certain point.
The label's origin will never change; scrolling a scroll view doesn't change the frame of its subviews. You need to look at the scroll view's content offset (i.e. how far is it scrolled).
You need to complete your tests. What should happen when the user scrolls back the other way? Also, do you want to change the navigation item title repeatedly, every instant the user is scrolling, or just once?

scrolling/resizing UITableView

I'll get right to the point.
I have a UIViewController that has two subviews in it. The top one (let's call it HeaderView from now one) is a custom UIView and the bottom one is a UITableView.
I have set them up in InterfaceBuilder so that the HeaderView has 0 margin from the left, top and right, plus it has a fixed height.
The UITableView is directly underneath with 0 margin from all sides.
My goal is to achieve a behaviour such that when I start scrolling the UITableView's content the HeaderView will start shrinking and the UITableView becomes higher without scrolling. This should go on until the HeaderView has reached a minimum height. After that the UITableView should start scrolling as normal. When scrolling down the effect should be reversed.
I have initially started this out using a UIScrollView instead of the UITableView and I have achieved the desired result. Here is how:
connect the UIScrollView to the outlet
#IBOutlet weak var scrollView: UIScrollView!
set the UIScrollViewDelegate in the controller's viewDidLoad() method
self.scrollView.delegate = self
and declared the UIViewController to conform to the protocol
intercept when the UIScrollView scrolls:
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
self.adjustScrolling(offset: scrollView.contentOffset.y, scrollView: scrollView)
}
in my adjustScrolling(offset:scrollView:) method the "magic" happens
Now let's look at what happens in this method.
private func adjustScrolling(offset: CGFloat, scrollView: UIScrollView) {
// bind value between 0 and max header scroll
let actualOffset: CGFloat = offset < 0 ? 0 : (offset >= self.maxHeaderScroll ? self.maxHeaderScroll : offset)
// avoid useless calculations
if (actualOffset == self.currentOffset) {
return
}
/**
* Apply the vertical scrolling to the header
*/
// Translate the header up to give more space to the scrollView
let headerTransform = CATransform3DTranslate(CATransform3DIdentity, 0, -(actualOffset), 0)
self.header.layer.transform = headerTransform
// Adjust header's subviews to new size
self.header.didScrollBy(actualOffset)
/**
* Apply the corrected vertical scrolling to the scrollView
*/
// Resize the scrollView to fill all empty space
let newScrollViewY = self.header.frame.origin.y + self.header.frame.height
scrollView.frame = CGRect(
x: 0,
y: newScrollViewY,
width: scrollView.frame.width,
height: scrollView.frame.height + (scrollView.frame.origin.y - newScrollViewY)
)
// Translate the scrollView's content view down to contrast scrolling
let scrollTransform = CATransform3DTranslate(CATransform3DIdentity, 0, (actualOffset), 0)
scrollView.subviews[0].layer.transform = scrollTransform
// Set bottom inset to show content hidden by translation
scrollView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(
top: 0,
left: 0,
bottom: actualOffset,
right: 0
)
self.currentOffset = actualOffset
}
If I haven't forgotten anything this should be enough to achieve the desired effect. Let me break it down:
I calculate the actualOffset binding it between 0 and self.MaxHeaderScroll which is just 67 (I think, it's calculated dynamically but this doesn't really matter)
If I see that the actualOffset hasn't changed since the last time this function was called I don't bother to aplly any changes. This avoids some useless calculations.
I apply the scrolling to the header by translating it up with a CATransform3DTranslate on just the y axis by negative actualOffset.
I call self.header.didScrollBy(actualOffset) so that the HeaderView can apply some visual changes internally. This doesn't concearn the question though.
I resize the scrollView so that it keeps 0 margin from top and bottom now that the HeaderView is higher up.
I translate down the scrollView's content by the same actualOffset amount to contrast the scrolling. This piece is essential to the correct visual effect that I want to achieve. If I didn't do this, the scrollView would still resize correctly but the content would start scrolling right away, which I don't want. It should only start scrolling once the HeaderView reaches it's minimum height.
I now set a bottom inset in the scrollView so that I am able to scroll it all the way to the end. Without this, the last part of the scrollView would be cut off since the scrollView itself would think it reached the end of it's content.
Lastly I store the actualOffset for later comparison
As I said, this works fine. The problem arises when I switch from a UIScrollView to a UITableView. I assumed it would work since UITableView inherits from UIScrollView.
The only piece of code that doesn't work is the number 6. I don't really know what is going wrong so I will just list everything I have found out and/or noticed. Hopefully someone will be able to help me out.
in the case of the UIScrollView, in point 6, the scrollView.subviews[0] refers to a view that holds all the content inside it. When I change to UITableView this subview seems to be of the type UITableViewWrapperView which I could not find any documentation about, nor does XCode recognize it as a valid class. This is already frustrating.
if in point 6 I also give some translation on the x axis (let's say of 50) I can see an initial very quick translation that is immediately brought back to 0. This only happens when the UITableView starts scrolling, it doesn't go on while scrolling.
I have tried changing the frame of the subview in point 6 to achieve the desired result. Although the scrolling is correct, the top cells start disappearing as I scroll the UITableView. I thin this is because I am using dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier:for:) to instatiate the cells and the UITableView thinks that the top cells aren't visible when they actually are. I wasn't able to work around this problem.
I have tried setting the self.tableView.tableHeaderView to a UIView of the actualOffset height to contrast scrolling but this gave a weird effect where the cells would not scroll correctly and when the UITableView was brought back to the initial position, there would be a gap on top. No clue about this either.
I know there's a lot here so please don't hesitate asking for more details. Thank you in advance.
I made something like this recently, so heres how I achieved it:
Make a UIView with a height constraint constant and link this to your view/VC, have you UITableview constrained to the VC's view full screen behind the UIView.
Now set your UITableViews contentInset top to the starting height of your 'headerView' now, in the scrollViewDidScroll you adjust the constant until the height of the header is at its minimum.
Here is a demo
If you just run it, the blue area is your 'header' and the colored rows are just any cell. You can autolayout whatever you want in the blue area and it should auto size and everything

Pause TableView scrolling

I have ViewController that have a UIView view and a TableView table inside it. View has big height so i want to hide it when user starts to scroll table - so table is now taking the whole screen.
To do that I use this method.
func scrollViewWillBeginDragging(scrollView: UIScrollView) {
//hide view or decrease it height
}
I hide view with animation - so it takes few moments to hide. The problem is - when user start to scroll table and view is begin to become smaller - some of top cells of table are already not showing because they are in top.
I want to pause scrolling - so that it can begin only after the view height is decreased. Also - I am afraid that it can be strange for users.
You need to make the height change as per user scroll to make it efficient.
override another delegate function
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
myView.heightConstraint = myView.originalHeight - scrollView.contentOffset.y;
}
The contentOffset property gives you the current amount of x,y scrolled in the scrollview from the origin.
What you can do is, you can give your tableView the entire screen and make another view with whatever height you want and make it as a header view of your tableView. So now the view will scroll as your tableView scrolls. Is this what you are looking for?
[tableView setHeaderView:<your-custom-header-view>];

Getting the visible label text from UIScrollView

I have added 10 labels to to display 0 to 9 in UIScrollView, User can see only one label in UIScrollView visible part. User needs to scroll to see other labels. How to determine which label is currently visible in UIScrollView after scroll view decelerating.
Thanks in advance
Use the scroll view's contentOffset and calculate how many "pages" down they have scrolled by dividing the y offset by the content size height.
When scrolling is complete compare contentOffset value with labels positions or view to see which label is currently shown:
Use this method for getting scrolled position:
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
NSLog(#"%f", scrollView.contentOffset.y);
//your logic to check shown label...
int currentVisiblePage = (scrollView.contentOffset.y / self.view.frame.size.height) + 1;
}
if you just want a single scrollable label, would be to use UITextView instead (reference). Disable editing, and you get a scrollable label.
(Taken almost verbatim from: how to add a scroll function to a UILabel)
For more detail:
UILabel inside of UIScrollView – programmatically
Sample code
AutoScrollLabel

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