I'm creating an App for Apple Watch which has a menu with two buttons like the Instagram App does. I'm wondering how you can put an Image file and text inside one button.
(It's not two separate objects as both image and text grey out when you click it.)
The only thing I can think of is that the icon and text were created as an image file and used as the background image of the button. Could there be another way?
Add a group element and in the Layout property choose Overlap
now all objects in the group are stacked
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I want to implement a bar at the bottom of the screen with the home button - exactly like in Instagram or Messanger apps. I was trying to use a tab bar (https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/bars/tab-bars/)
And I would like to utilize system home icon for the tab bar button/item (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicationshortcuticontype/1623374-home)
Is there any simple and straight forward way to set this home icon for the tab bar item?
Some icons can be selected directly from the list in the button/item properties in Xcode, but this home icon is not among them.
I also saved the png from the link above, resized it to 30x30 and added as a picture for the button/item, but it's just showing a grey rectangle.
Apple may or may not provide you with some images. In general no one uses stock images but provide their own. You should do the same.
So "Adding home icon to the tab bar" is pretty much the same as for any other tab bar item. You can add your image and/or text that represents your "home" button. Some images may already be at your disposal but others must be made/bought/stolen by you.
The image you use in tab bar item is only used as a mask and not as an explicit image. What that means is that only alpha component of the image will be taken. In your case you have a black icon on white background which from alpha perspective means you have a rectangle. You will need to remove the white background and make it transparent or use another image that already has these properties.
I am not sure for tab bar but you might also try to open your assets, select your image and then in options on the right find "Render as" and set it to "Original image". Even if this will work the results will not be as you desire (at least in most cases) due to a white background on the image.
In general this option is used to set it to "template" which means whenever you use this image on your components such as UIImageView it will use it's tint color and image alpha component instead of the actual colors from the image. It is a very useful tool but again I am not sure it will work on tab bar item.
You should stop wondering if Xcode is designed to be overcomplicated. Putting aside numerous amount of bugs (and there is really a lot of them) and it being slow (it really used to be faster) it is designed very nicely. But tab bar view controller is extremely high level component. If you don't like it the way it is then simply create your own. All you need is a bottom view with your N buttons which may be shaped any way you can possibly imagine and a container view on which you set a new view controller when one of those buttons is pressed.
Is there an option for a button/image to set, that it will always be shown on top? So I have 2 buttons and want to add an image. But the image covers the two buttons and I have no idea how I could get the image in the background or the buttons in the front.
BTW: I´m fairly new to xcode and programming...
Use the xCode top menu item Editor->Arrange. There you have options to handle z index for controls.
What I did was, to have two button one for the label and one for the image and when one is clicked it propagates the message to the other and does the action depending on which one was clicked.
I have added Settings.Bundle to my app. I want to create several Child panes and I need to perform in them customization, like a cell in table view :(UITableViewCellStyleValue1 or any other).
It is possible to do such thing?
In my Root.plist I have specified 'Settings Page Title', but when my app is executed the title is not used.
The last Item(String) from 'Preference Items' is not displayed, why it's like that?
This is how I would like to customize Child Panes ( I mean text & position not color of background):
Is it possible to change fonts,frames of corresponding labels from code?
BTW, how to create preferences as Facebook, twitter, Flickr apps have?
What I'm trying to do is simple: bring a label in front of an image within a subview.
But all of the options for arranging are disabled/un-selectable when my label is selected. I find this happens often.
What could be the reason that I'm almost never allowed to change the z-axis of my objects in the Arrange menu? Is it a better practice to avoid this feature and set the order of views programmatically?
It can depend on how you have selected the label (similar to how the label can only be moved with the keyboard when selected in some ways).
A simple alternative is to look at the list of view in the pane on the left and to drag the views up and down to change the order.
It happens sometimes. In that situation, click the view or image you want to send back then you will see little square box at the edges of image from which you can re size your image, Just click on it once and then go to Editor > Arrange > Choose option according your need.
Hello everybody I am trying to create a screen (to see the image click here)
I have set it's backround image also created required list components which are click able by extending Field class. Now my problem is I am not able to set that rounded white color as backround of the list. Please help me. And also because I am new to the blackberry please also tell me the optimized way to create this screen.
i think like this
1) header bar - create manager and embed 2 buttons and 1 label in it
2) bottom bar - create a global class that contains the buttons and define a method that responds to the click event of these buttons
call that class in this main screen
3) for middle part use a list field which is scrollable