How to find the scroll difference of a UITableView.
I need to find the difference of the Tableview content scroll from the tableview top position in swift
I tried the below code,
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
let contentOffset = tableview.frame.origin.y
let maximumOffset = (contentOffset - scrollView.contentOffset.y)
let dif = maximumOffset
}
Contents offset of tableview, itself describe as difference between top of content to current scroll position.
Try this and see:
print(tableView.contentOffset)
For more, see Apple Document - contentOffset
contentOffset : The point at which the origin of the content view is offset from the origin of the scroll view.
Also look at this refernce:
Understanding of Content Offset
A UITableView is a subclass of UIScrollView, so it has a contentOffset property.
When you're learning about a class, remember to check it's parent class. Sometimes the properties/methods you're looking for are in the parent. (I'm as guilty of forgetting to check the interface of parent classes as anybody.)
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I have an application that uses more UIScrollViews and extensions from it like UICollectionViews and UITableViews and for a little dynamism I have created some general functions to help me with some paddings / margins.
My functions are created as extensions for UIScrollView and I want to use them just when the scroll view is only vertical.
My Question
How can I find the scrolling direction of a UIScrollView?
I have found a lot of answers of how to find the scrolling direction, but I need when the UIScrollView is initialised to find the scrolling direction of it, if it's vertical or horizontal.
Thank you for your time!
One solution I can think of in order to get the scroll direction before scrolling is to react accordingly to the type of UIScrollView in question.
So first step check if it is a UIScrollView, UICollectionView or UITableView.
In the case of a UITableView
I think a fair assumption here is that the scrolling direction will be vertical
In the case of a UIScrollView
This one could be tricky but I guess here you would have to compare the content size of the scroll view with the frame of the scrollview as Desdenova suggested and this can suggest if you can scroll horizontally and / or vertically.
In the case of a UICollectionView
This data will lie in the in the layout of the UICollectionView.
For example, I set up a basic UICollectionView in Storyboard using a FlowLayout without any data in it.
Then I add this code somewhere appropriate
if let layout = collectionView.collectionViewLayout as? UICollectionViewFlowLayout
{
if layout.scrollDirection == .horizontal {
print("horizontal")
}
else {
print("vertical")
}
}
This prints out horizontal.
For the UIScrollView you have to use the UIScrollViewDelegate scrollViewDidScroll which is helps you in UIScrollView's Scroll direction also for that you have to add some checks for the get the directions:
func scrollViewDidScroll(scrollView: UIScrollView!) {
// Update ScrollView direction
if self.lastContentOffset.y > scrollView.contentOffset.y && self.lastContentOffset.y < scrollView.contentOffset.y {
// Vertical Scroll
} else {
// Horizontal Scroll
}
}
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
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
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
There is a button at the bottom of my view controller. When the user scrolls down the button has to be attached to the scrollview at certain height.
I need to attach a button to the scrollview, immediately when the contentOffset.y reaches a particular value. -(void) scrollviewDidScroll doesn't help me as there might be a jump in contentOffset when the user is scrolling fast. Any leads on this are helpful.
Also, whenever I add a subview to the scrollview, -(void) viewDidLayoutSubviews is called. Which in turn sets the contentOffset to {0,0}. How can I achieve the functionality I need?
I needed to do the same thing with a UITableView and for me using scrollViewDidScroll worked.
I created a view called staticBar and added it as a subview of the tableView, but I had to rearrange the tableview subviews for it to appear in the right place. I don't have my code in front of me, but in -scrollViewDidScroll: it looked something like this:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView*)scrollView
{
CGFloat staticBarAdjustedY = _staticBarY - scrollView.contentOffset.y;
CGFloat scrollViewYFloor = scrollView.frame.size.height - _staticBar.frame.size.height;
// This way maximum Y the view can have is at the base of the scrollView
CGFloat newY = MIN( staticBarAdjustedY, scrollViewYFloor);
_staticBar.frame = (CGRect){ { _staticBar.frame.origin.x, newY}, _staticBar.frame.size}
}
I will check my code later today and add more details here.
Also, you said the scrollviewDidScroll has jumps in contentOffset, but it's worth mentioning that these jumps are the same that the scrollView uses to scroll its own view. So it's not like you are "losing" frames on this delegate method.
Hope it helps.
PS: So, here is the rest of my code.
//I place my custom view as a subview of the tableView below it's last subview
//The last subview is for scroll indicators.
WTButtonsBar *buttonBar = [[WTButtonsBar alloc] init];
[self.tableView insertSubview:buttonBar belowSubview:self.tableView.subviews.lastObject];
In scrollViewDidScroll:
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
//In my app I needed my view to stick to the top of the screen
//thats why I use MAX here
//self.buttonsBarOriginalY is the view's position in the scrollView when it isn't attached to the top.
CGFloat newY = MAX(scrollView.contentOffset.y, self.buttonsBarOriginalY)
[_buttonsBar setFrame:(CGRect){{0, newY}, _buttonsBar.frame.size}];
}