I have a horizontally scrolling UIScrollView that runs "off" the screen. See image:
I want to be able to edit the content more directly in the Storyboard rather than guessing where to put Views etc. As you see in the image above, you can't see the entire text of the UILabel, nor the ImageView at the end, much less anything else I might want to put there.
I'm using Xcode 14.2.
I answered this ten years ago, and in a perhaps better way a few months after, but due to the endless vicissitude of Apple's designs, the procedure has become slightly different, so here's a new answer.
You can't scroll a scroll view in the storyboard editor. As a workaround, you can make the scene wider, and the scroll view wider, so that you can see all of its content in the storyboard editor.
Select the view controller in the storyboard outline.
Open the Size inspector. Change the setting for “Simulated Size” from “Fixed” to “Freeform”.
Increase the width of the simulated size as needed so that you can make your scroll view wide enough to see all its content. Depending on how your constraints (or autoresizing mask) are set up, the scroll view may get wider automatically.
I am creating a launch screen for my app, I have a picture in an Imageview that I want as a backdrop for a Label containing the title of the app.
Screenshot of the image in the background with Label in front of it
I was able to shift the Label to the front of the launchscreen.storyboard, so that it is on top of the Imageview, by changing their position in the viewcontroller index.like so
When I load the sim for the app, the image doesn't appear, so it ends up looking like this:
screenshot of launchscreen.storyboard
I haven't the foggiest ideas as to how to resolve this issue.
(Sidenote, I'm aware that nothing on the launchscreen.storyboard is aligned properly; I've removed all the constraints and I've been moving the moving things around in an effort to figure things out)
Is there something I need to drop into the Viewcontroller to make this happen?
I'm kind of at a loss..
Set the constraints to the image view to 0 for top-left-bottom-right. For the label, set the constraints to the top, center it to the page, and then set the size you want it to be. Sometimes when you change auto layout a lot within Xcode it gets buggy. You may want to delete all constraints and start fresh.
I am working on a project on Xcode7.3 using swift using autolayout. I am stuck with an problem with the UITableview not displaying properly on the simulator.
I created a ViewController and dragged a TableView into ViewController. Then I dragged a UIView and UIImage ontop of that TableView (To display as a header image). I also dragged a UIImage onto the prototype cell. They are all aligned in the center horizontally and vertically. However, when I run the app, they don't show in the middle of the screen.
As shown in the UITableView_Problem Image, the images are offset to the right. What is also weird is that when I rotate the screen, the scrollbar on the right does not go all the way to the right. The images appears to be in the center of the screen if I consider where the scroll bar is the end of the screen. But that doesnt make sense because the bottom bar items spans the full width of the screen.
However, if I create a UITableViewController from the story board instead of dragging a TableView onto a ViewController, I do not have a problem at all. (Image3)
It is frustrating because I wanted to add a text field for keyboard at the bottom of the screen just like the comment section in Instagram app. And after hours of searching, it appears that the only way to do that is to drag a tableView onto a ViewController. i stack imgur com JC5Pw png
Could anyone please assist? Much appreciated
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note: I dont have a developers account yet so I cant check on an actual device
You are designing your interface in the wRegular/hRegular (or universal) size class. You will need to be very good about your constraints or develop a layout for the wCompact/hRegular size class for iPhones in portrait mode. You can change this by selecting here the blue part on the bottom of your storyboard
Thanks Dan for your prompt response! I added constraints to everything except for the tableView. Dont know what I was thinking as I have been troubled by this bug for a few days. Everything works fine after the tableView constraints was set!
I have a problem adapting my apps to the new iphone5 layout, I've made the following passes:
Added a retina 4" splash image
Modified the interface in my storyboard with "Size inspector" to change the anchoring of the widgets
Tested the app with iOS6 "retina 4" simulator.
The app works as expected except when the user pop up the keyboard to edit a text, I use the "stretching scrollview" method for this particular situation and this seems not compatibile with the "autosizing" properties of my widgets, here is an example, from iOS6 simulator, without and with keyboard:
And here is what happens:
I'm quite sure this is a coherent behaviour since my main view is stretched so the other items inside it are stretched following their anchoring, the fact is that I'd like to have the same behaviour of my previous fixed position (all widgets anchored to the top left corner) with the iphone5 gui expansion, is this possibile?
How do you solve the problem of showing a keyboard and scroll hidden content in an iphone 5 compatible way?
I have been having similar problems. From what I have found thus far, we may need to remove all constraints on the view within the scrollable view, because it appears that it's contents are being resized along with the frame of the scrollView. I know that setting the internal view's frame manually in viewWillAppear will work, but then you are stuck having a view that is the same size for both iPhone4 and iPhone5 (albeit it will scroll). Or you could "pin height and pin width" of the internalView right there in storyboard.
Two potential approaches that may work. Sorry I can't confirm these as I'm giving up and redesigning around this problem.
1. Programmatically add constraints to your internal view's subviews. The programmatic constraints will allow you to "spring" the distance between your elements proportionally. When adding constraints programmatically, you are given access to a factor called "multiplier" (not to be confused with priority), which I saw someone else on stackoverflow posting about.
2. You can design the internalView in Interface Builder as a separate viewController with it's .xib file, and then use storyboard to load it as an embedded viewController to a "containerView" object, which you would put in place as the new "internal view" of the scrollView. Perhaps then the .xib would first resize to the correct iOS device, and then you could use its frame to resize the containerView.
My advice is create a small test-case of these before implementing, else you end up like me, having spent hours down the wrong path and facing a dead-end.
UPDATE 12/4/12
Make your life easier by NOT setting the ScrollView as the main view of the ViewController.
--Instead, make ViewController.view a dummy/blank view, and embed a scrollView inside that view. Then, embed another view (my CustomView) in the ScrollView. CustomView contains all the visible controls and text boxes and buttons. There is NO HEIGHT CONSTRAINT on CustomView.
I have a vertically scrolling uiscrollview - imagine an 'about this app' page of a tab bar app which goes on a bit and requires a scrollview. It only contains a few images, a video and some text (only the video has been coded in - the rest have been placed in the GUI). In storyboard (Interface Builder?) Xcode 4.2, everything is set up as it should be and works fine, but the view is only as large as what you see on the screen, is it not possible to manually arrange in storyboard the items that are initially offscreen - that you need to scroll up to? The only way I've found so far is to design them on the visible view then navigate them down with the arrow keys..
In the storyboard select the viewController, then in Attributes inspector change 'size' to 'freeform'. Then change the 'height' of the view/scroll view to as big as you need. The default settings of struts and springs should take care of resizing the view back correctly when the app is run, but you should double check.
I feel your pain. The only way I found is to manually pan the scroll view in the size inspector to reveal the portion of the view that you wish to visually edit.
Use a UIView to contain elements so they are positioned relatively to this view. Add the view as a subview to the scrollview at 0,0.
pan: use the Y coordinate say to -200, then edit the contents.
to place more contents in the hidden part, pan again to reveal new real-estate
when finished, restore the values of the ScrollView's height and X,Y position.
Make sure the scroll view frame rectangle is smaller than the contained view.
New: 3/26/2013
I stumbled upon what I think is even simpler way of dealing with UIScrollView directly in storyboard.
No code needed, just storyboard settings. This maybe new in iOS6.1 / Xcode 4.6
No need to disable constraints (i.e. uncheck "Use autolayout" in File Inspector for storyboard file)
No need to add UIScrollView* scrollView; in .h
No need to add self.scrollView.contentSize = ... in overrides of viewWillAppear or viewDidLoad
Here is what I did (important parts highlighted with **): (see code)
Create a new project with storyboard enabled
Drop in a UIScrollView, set class in identity inspector for view controller
In attributes Inspector, change Size under simulated metrics to Freeform**
Select scroll View; In attributes inspector, turn on "scroll enabled" and "background" to "White" (you'll figure out why - if you don't)
Under Size Inspector (with scroll view selected) change the height to 900 for example**
Add buttons, one on top and one at the bottom
Add a default handler for buttonTouchUpInside for both buttons and simply Log sender.
See Code Select the View Controller and scroll view and check inspectors.
Just change the 'Simulated Size' of the view controller to freeform and set a height that is larger than the usual size, you will be able to see all the outlets you need to edit.
On iOS 6.0 you can drag a Container View inside your Scroll View. This will automatically create a new View for your content, outside of the current scene. You can then resize this view as big as needed to fit your content.
I believe you would still have to set the ScrollView content height at runtime, but at least you can design you content view at once without having to scroll up and down on IB.
Just uncheck the "Autoresize subviews" from any view that you're trying to resize and it should keep all your objects from resizing with it.
I've been struggling with this for a while now, and every single thing I've tried has failed.
Specifically, What I am trying to achieve is a freeform sized modal dialog with a scrollable view containing a container for another view. I have had a lot of varied results, including occasionally having it working correctly. Most often I get it looking exactly correct, but with no scrolling.
In finally downloaded Dickey Singh's code, which worked perfectly but had nothing special. (Excellent clean solution BTW). So, I added a container view to it, exactly as I had in my code, and it broke!
After some experimenting, I worked out what is going on. Just bear with me.
1) Using Auto Layout, the size of the scroll view seems to dictate what the scrolling bounds will be. Setting "contentSize" in "USer Defined Runtime Attributes" seems to have no effect on this, and neither does setting "contentSize" or "bounds" in "viewWillDisplay" or "viewDidLoad". Thus if the initial size of the scroll view is 800x800, that will be all the space that can be displayed. For this reason, when I want a scrollable region, I create a container view and then put the scrolling view inside the content.
2) Without Auto Layout, setting "contentSize" in "User Defined Runtime Attributes" works, as does by setting it programmatically in "viewDidLoad". I prefer to use "User Defined Runtime Attributes" because it keeps the size with the layout. This solution allows you to use scrolling view with more flexibility, since it can be any size at design time.
3) Regardless of Auto Layout, if any view within the scrolling region exactly matches EITHER the horizontal or vertical frame bounds, then the scroll view ceases to function as a scroll view. This applies to my own code and to Dickey Singh's code in every possible configuration that I have tried.
I have no idea what is causing (3), but it is clearly a bug.
I hope this helps everybody out there who is struggling to use scroll view. I imagine that some people are using them without any problem, and some (like me) have had noting but problems with them.
Here's my solution to design a ScrollView with a content larger than the screen entirely in Storyboard (well, except for 1 single line of code :-) :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19476991/1869369
I'm currently developing an app for iOS 7, and I did exactly as #Dickey Singh's answer, but it doesn't work in the beginning.
After checking the storyboard, I found that we also need to add Auto Layout Constraints for the view controller who holds the scrollView.
It seems that such auto layout constraints would be added automatically before Xcode 5, but now we need to do it ourselves.
The way to add constraints: First select the view controller in the storyboard; Enter 'Editor' in the top menu; Select the 'Resolve Auto Layout Issues'; Select the 'Add Missing Constraints In Container'. Done :-)