I am experimenting a little bit witch apps programming.
How I can add a UIImage to a UITextField"?
Like Whats App or the most other Chat Apps.
I have search some time but doesn't find a solution, also i have tried to search in side of XCode with the auto complete but I have not found a function. So I hope you can help me.
The easiest way to add an image to a text field is to have a UIView that contains both UITextField and a UIImageView as subviews.
Next up, you can have a UIButton with both an image and text, and just set userInteractionEnabled to "NO" and it'll behave like a text view with an image next to it.
Now to get more complicated, if you want a chat-like text field that allows text (that you can type into) and images next to each other, you need to start thinking about custom subclasses. Other people have asked and have gotten answers for this same approach.
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So I have UIButton's all over various VC's and Scenes on my game. Some with images others just plain text. So I want to combine both. I know I can do both but the button is then in the background. Is there anyway I can make sure that the text is above said image and the whole thing is clickable?
Everything i'm doing is via the storyboard and not programmatically but i'm fine with doing programmatic. I'm looking at the API as we speak and it seems that I'll have to deal with edges? Never done that before so, just need some guidance :/
The guide I looked at before on stackoverflow was from 5-7 years ago and applies which is fine but setting the edges isn't as self explanatory as it might seem :/
Here's what I have:
dosplayas.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(((dosplayas.frame.size.height)*(-(2))), 0, 0, 0)
I also tried positive two and I tried it as the first of 4 parameters because the first one is the top according to the API
When setting image, just set background image rather than regular image. it'll allow text on top
Then change text to attributed rather than plain
Then..here's a screenshot:
-click the 3 dots
-change the lining to like 7-20 depending on the size of your text
I have problem when in iOS settings is enabled this setting "Button Shapes"
It causing this underline in application (first picture with enabled setting, second without)
Any idea how to programatically or in storyboard disable it?
I tried attributed text but I get same result :(
I'm newbie in Swift.
Thanks for help!
It's not a problem. You should not make any attempt to counter any accessibility changes set by the user. They are there for a reason.
This is an answer by user4291543 from this question Remove underline on UIButton in iOS 7
[yourBtnHere setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc] init] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
I found this answer works with SWFrameButton
And for all the others saying "Don't Do This", SWFrameButton is a very good example of when you would want to do this. I also think the OP's situation is a perfectly valid scenario as well...
I totally agree with #maddy's comment:
It's not a problem. You should not make any attempt to counter any accessibility changes set by the user. They are there for a reason.
But I did stumble on a way to accomplish the task at hand...
In addition to a UIButton, you'll also need to make a .png file that contains nothing (meaning the entire contents have an opacity of 0%). Go ahead and load that into your xcode project's assets.
Now go ahead and set the Button's Background to that image you just provided. (In my case, I called it clear) This will remove the underline from the button's text. However, now you can't see the boundaries of the button. This can be solved by changing the Background of the button's View. Go ahead and select any color for the View's Background property and now the background of the View visibly defines the button's boundaries. You're able to see this because your clear.png has an opacity of 0%.
see the Attributes inspector for UIButton here.
Rather than trying to defeat the underline by going to make a label perform some action via UITapGestureRecognizer, this allows you to still use a UIButton. Keeping inline with accessibility features to mark buttons for people that want to do that.
You could create a custom button class with a label (with clear color). If you set the text of this label instead it shouldn`t get an underline.
Are you sure you want to do that?
Apple added an accessibility feature to mark buttons for people that want to do that. Apple will probably reject your app because it defeats a system function meant to help the disabled.
I found the solution. All you have to do is set a picture as the background of the button. just pick a picture with the same color as the button you created.
My requirement was to make a application specific keyboard i.e with a different theme and different key contents as compared to the default keyboard. But the way Apple states to implement keyboard requires user effort to add it through Settings->General->Keyboard which I don't want.
So, for that I tried to implement it using a UIView and making it the inputView for UITextView and it is working perfectly fine except for one issue. I added a functionality to add a linebreak in the textView. For that the code I used is
textView.text = "\(textView.text)\n"
Now, whenever I add a linebreak through keyboard, line is changed, but a new cursor appears to blink above the old cursor. I don't know how to get rid of that.
To explain the problem in a better way, here's a GIF image of the issue.
Please help.
I'm building an iPad app witch will use a numeric keyboard. The numeric keyboard for the iPad is really huge, all i need is something smaller, something like the decimal keyboard for the iphone.
If i use the default one, half the screen gets covered with keys i dont need. I know i can move the textfields out of the way but it is such a waste of screen space.
So i tried building a custom UIView with no button for start and setting the textfield.inputview to my custom UIView.
The only thing i got is that my custom view is displayed like/in place of/the stock keyboard and the only thing i can change is the height of the custom view.
How could i build a sort of custom keyboard that apple will accept and works with the textfields.
Thank you.
I found what i was looking for. The answer is UIPopover. I managed to build a custom keypad inside a uipopover.
Here's a good tutorial for the uipopover:
http://www.appcoda.com/uiactionsheet-uipopovercontroller-tutorial/
And here's some more info on what you have to do to make it work:
http://iphone-bitcode.blogspot.fr/2011/12/custom-number-pad-on-ipad.html
I say 'hyperlink' because I don't know what else to call it, and that is how i'd like it to appear.
Obviously this is possible using a combination of labels and buttons, but my labels and buttons are programmatically generated and I imagine i'd have to also programmatically arrange them, which would likely be tedious and inflexible in terms of changing font sizes etc.
Any ideas/approaches would be much appreciated!
As an example, look at Instagram's following and news feed:
You should set userInteractionEnabled and then add a UITapGestureRecognizer to the label.
Have a look at Nimbus Attributed Label it can provide the functionality you are looking for.