When nesting views in Interface Builder, if I have an opaque view with hidden views beneath it in the view Hierarchy, the hidden views are visible through the higher view and are just partially translucent like the below picture.
Why does this happen and can I make it stop? It's very annoying.
To be clear this is strictly in IB. At run time the views are displayed correctly.
Sad to see this is the best answer that I have found so far: If you set the view you want to work as NOT hidden, while all the rest ARE hidden, then you can select away from the storyboard (e.g. some other file), then click back on the storyboard. Only the NON-hidden views are displayed. Sadly, the other views comeback if you make position alterations to the view (UPDATE: only when you click and drag. Selecting and using arrow keys does not), but changing text, size, color etc do not.
Original with hidden
Clicked off storyboard and back
Related
Header image with gray bar on top
I am converting our app to fit correctly on newer iOS devices. We are using xib files for the UI. I added a launch screen storyboard to start off the new formatting. I noticed a gray bar across the top of every screen. It is not part of the view controller and I've tried removing the status bar but that only makes the text and icons disappear. I don't think it's the navigation bar either since we have that hidden as well. I have checked the Safe Area Layouts.
Any ideas on what this is and how I can remove it to extend my view all the way to the top? The blue in the image is the color I currently set the background of my view controller and we have a custom header view below that.
Using the View Hierarchy, as suggested, I was able to see the view behind my main view. I inspected the code for that initial view and found the previous developers had offset the Navigation Controller by 20. That is what created the bar on all the views. I have adjusted to remove the offset and it looks perfect now.
I'm trying to create a form that will be larger than the screen size and I've decided to use a view inside a scrollerview, then I'm adding the rest of the UI widgets (textfields, buttons, etc.) inside the view.
The view displays and scrolls, but no matter what I try, it displays with a vertical offset of -64 below the navigation controller bar. Once there the view will happily scroll up down.
I want the view to anchored at the top, just below the navigation bar, and then scroll down.
I am using IB.
Lots of time researching and not many answers that have worked for me. UIScrollView seems to be like one of those dirty secrets the whole iOS world seems to avoid....
Thank you for your help.
You can fix this in the storyboard
1- Select the view Controller
2- GO to attributes inspector
3- Uncheck adjust scroll View insets
For your view controller, in the storyboard uncheck the option to extend edges under top bar.
I am trying display a UITableView within a larger UIView in an iPad app, mainly because the data is pretty sparse and I'd like to have the table be a smaller area over a background image, rather than taking up the whole screen. The parent UIViewController is correctly set as the table data source and delegate, and the table looks/functions like it should. The whole view is embedded in a navigation controller; the overall UIView shows a navigation bar, as it should, that I can configure normally.
The problem is the UITableView subview also shows blank space at the top for a navigation bar--empty space above the first cell--and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I know the space is related to the navigation controller, because when I delete the embed link in the storyboard, the space goes away. The table view doesn't present a UINavigationBar property or any other navigation-related properties that I can try to nullify.
I would post a screen shot but I don't have the rep yet.
Can anyone explain where the space is coming from and how to nix it?
I suspect the answer is related to the Top Layout Guide for the view, but I can't diagnose the specific problem.
Here's a workaround from the storyboard: Insert a UIView in the scene, then drag the UITableView into it as a subview. Check the box for the new UIView's "Clip Subviews" in the attribute window, and then use it as a mask, basically, to cover the undesired top margin of the table view. It works and doesn't require any coding, but there has to be a better way.
I'm making an app with a picker view, and when a button is pressed, the picker view pops up, and when another button is pressed, it disappears. In the storyboard, the picker view covers the bottom half of the screen, including two buttons, but when I run the simulator, the buttons and other objects that are on the screen (such as labels and text fields) get shifted to seemingly random places, including the objects that are not covered by the picker view. What exactly is the problem, and how do I fix it?
Go to the story board, select that particular view controller on which you have placed the picker view and open document outline window(which appear on the left side of story board). After that you will get the list of components present on that view. Drag the labels and the buttons to the bottom of the picker view. By doing this you will get the labels and the buttons on the top of the picker view and add the constraints to the components.
Another reason might be that you have selected other model at the bottom and ran on other model.
Just set the constraints it will solve the problems. And delete suggested constraints.
If I am pushing a view controller onto the NavController, is there a way when designing this view to have the controls line up correctly?
Here's the issue I'm having, I had to align the TableView and MapView like so to get it to show up properly when loaded into the navcontroller:
This seems wrong. The mapview as you can see overlaps the tableview in the editor, but when it runs their lined up correctly. If I raise the mapview to line up directly on top of the tableview, when run, theres a white gap between the two. I realize the NavBar is pushing things down, or that's my guess.
Is there anything in the Utilities I can set to handle this?
You can manually tell the view controller to show a navigation bar in interface builder in the attributes inspector.
select your view, then in File Inspector, uncheck Use Autolayout. It may helps you.