This one is really bugging me! What is the name of this UIView subclass? I'm not talking about the compass itself, but the two dots at the bottom of the view. I know it's not a private API because I have seen it before. Or am I confused and this is not a UIView at all, but a UIViewController. Which UIView / UIViewController subclass is shown here. It acts like a UIScrollView, but has distinct pages, and has the dots at the bottom of the screen that show the users relative progress through the pages. I have checked this link about UIView subclasses, but became lost after about the 45th one. http://www.themusingsofalostprogrammer.com/2010/09/list-of-every-uiview-subclass.html
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Thankyou for your time.
It is a UIPageControl. It corresponds (or is supposed to correspond) to the number of "pages" the user can scroll to, sideways. Normally, it indicates how many pages there are, and which one we are on, plus it typically provides a way to scroll sideways (by tapping to its left or right).
If I may add to what matt said...
To use a UIPageControl effectively, you also need a UIScrollView that contains the content. An update to the page control should result in a change to the contentOffset of the scrollView as shown in the code below. UIScrollView has a pagingEnabled property that should be set to YES to complete the illusion of paging.
- (IBAction)pageValueChanged:(UIPageControl *)sender
{
// self.pagedView is an IBOutlet to a UIScrollView
[self.pagedView setContentOffset:CGPointMake( sender.currentPage * 320, 0 ) animated:YES];
}
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Instead of the standard dots that Apple provides for a page control, I want to have something like this. However I don't want it to be in an infinite loop were you can circle around. All I care about is the scrollable text on top, not the parallax image.
Currently I have a paging scrollview that contains three view controllers so my custom page control will have only three words: Main, Today, Settings.
The way I see this being built is the following:
Subclass UIView and insert three UIButton's and evenly space them. The title of the buttons will be Main, Today, Settings.
Insert this UIView as child of scrollview (or maybe not)
Make UIView the width of the iPhone screen
Not sure about here now -> as you scroll the scrollview shift the UIView on and off the screen so that the UIButton will be centered in one of the view controllers in the scrollview.
Am I on right track or does anyone have a demo to this?
Yes. You are on right track. You can use scrollView for this exact purpose. You have to make use of scrollViewDelegate methods for this. The below link will explain you how to do that.
How to make Paging with scrollView.
I'd like to be able to swipe the screen to the left and right to display different user details (see link to screenshot below). I'd also like the animated effect where you see the items leave the screen on one side and the new items appear from the opposite side.
Elements used on storyboard.
UIViewController
UIImageView
UILabel x 3
UIPageControl
For starters, I don't know which elements I need to get this effect. I'm looking for someone to tell me what elements I need and sample code to go with it.
Screenshot of my ViewController - http://oi60.tinypic.com/k3roqp.jpg
I do not want to use UIPageViewController
You can use either a UIScrollView with paging enabled or a UIPageViewController to display multiple view controllers as pages. There are plenty tutorials on the web for those.
You can find documentation for those controls directly at Apples website:
UIScrollView: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uiscrollview_class/Reference/UIScrollView.html
UIPageViewController: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIPageViewControllerClassReferenceClassRef/UIPageViewControllerClassReference.html
I have a requirement in my app to display a bunch of information that includes both text and images. It will be quite long, so it will need to be scrollable to access all the content.
I know that I can achive this by programmatically adding different UILabels, UIImages etc to a UIScrollView. But this is a proof of concept, so I'm looking for something a little quicker than having to work out all the positioning and code required. The information is static anyway, and does not need to interact with code.
Is there a way to do this using the interface builder (storyboard or xib is fine)?
you definitely can do that if you simply want a quick interface
1.> you might need to know how long is your scroll view, for example in my case, i set it to 1568
2.> Then i drag all the controls that will fit for the first 568 pixel view onto the scroll view and position them.
3.> Then change the Y value for that scroll view to something like - 500, so you can see the rest of the scroll view, and put everything you need there.
4.> After you have all your controls, and remember to set the frame back to 0,0,320,568
5.> last step, in your code, set SCROLLVIEW.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 1568);
I would still suggestion don't hard code all those values, but if you are looking for a quick way to do your interface, hope that gives you some ideas.
Just start a new project with a single view, it will come with a xib or storyboard for its single ViewController.
Create a UIView by dragging it into the workspace and place as many Labels, Images and UI Elements as you want.
Open the xib / storyboard and drag a UIScrollView in as your root VC's root view. Drag the view containing your layout into the scrollview, making it the scrollviews only subview.
Done (almost)!
If you launch your app at this point, you'll notice you can't scroll. That is because the scrollview is "too stupid" to adjust the size of its contentSize property on its own.
You'll need some code here, but it is only a tiny snippet and you won't need to touch it again:
Create a new Category on UIScrollView.
In your category's implementation, do:
#implementation UIScrollView (MyHandyCategory)
-(void)awakeFromNib {
NSArray *subViews = [self subviews];
UIView *contentView = [subViews objectAtIndex:0];
[self setContentSize:contentView.frame.size];
}
#end
Done (for real this time)! This will check the size of the view your scrollview contains and ajust the contentSize after it has been initialized. You can change the size of your content view as you like, no need to play around with hardcoded values or even Interface Builder values!
If it’s just proof of concept I’d have a WebView and a local HTML page you load. Easy-peasy.
I would suggest UICollectionView. It's fairly straightforward. There's a good tutorial here:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/22324/beginning-uicollectionview-in-ios-6-part-12
I want to create a footer fixed to the bottom of the viewport in an iOS app I'm developing (it's my first one, I come from a web dev background). However I'm having difficulty finding information on how to go about this.
What I have in mind is essentially just 3 rectangular buttons next to each other that are just constantly fixed to the bottom of the viewport. I tried dragging a toolbar into my scene as a starting point, but in the interface builder it's placing itself under my table cell, rather than fixing to the bottom. I feel like this is probably easier to do programmatically, but I just don't know where to start.
If someone could at the very least guide me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
Okay... create/add custom UIView on your main view (self.view)
and set this custom view's frame = (0, 0, 320 , self.view.frame.size.height - 50) /// change value 50 to as per your requirement.
and add all of then UIControls such like textField, tableVie, button ...etc.. on this custom view.
Don't use a UITableViewController. Use a UIViewController, then add a table view and a toolbar. You'll need to implement the UITableViewDelegate protocol in code and then connect the delegate in interface builder.
I wrote a little UIView subclass to show a progress HUD. That HUD view works perfect but I faced a little problem in the last days.
In my application I'm presenting a UIViewController in a custom way. When the user selects a row in a tableView I'm creating an instance of my second viewController, move it to the current VC, set it's view's height to zero, add it as subview of the curren VC's view (at the position of the selected cell) and animate the height back to original.
The behaviour looks pretty cool and works great.
But when the second view is added as subview, I'm adding a HUD to this view. When the second view is resizing to the original height, the HUD sticks to the top of the view and is just a few pixels high:
I played around a bit with NSLayoutConstraints... But I didn't get it working until now...
Has someone a good idea on that one? Or does anybody know good and well explained resources on these constraints?
The HUD is actually a background view with the little window as subview. All other elements (the progress view, labels and so on) are subviews of the little window.
In terms of good resources, I definitely recommend WWDC2012's 3 videos: Introduction to Auto Layouts for OSX/iOS, Auto Layout by Example, and Best Practises for Mastering Auto Layout. These have some tips for looking at ambiguity in the layout and dealing with conflicts
Another great reference is Erica Sadun's iOS6 recipe book.
Re your problem. I'm assuming that you're not seeing an error message and you're laying out the progress HUD entirely in the XIB. If so, it sounds like you have two constraints that aren't behaving as you'd like from the xib - the height from the top of the superView and the height of the HUD
Firstly, create an outlet for the constraints to the .h file
#property (strong) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *HUDSuperViewToHUDConstraint;
#property (strong) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *HUDHeight;
Next, in the method in which you open the new viewController with the HUD remove the constraints so that there is no conflict when you first show the new view
[HUDSuperView removeConstraint:self.HUDSuperViewToHUDViewConstraint];
[HUDSuperView removeConstraint:self.HUDHeight];
After you've called [HUDSuperView layoutIfNeeded] for the first time, in the animation or wherever, add the constraints and call layoutIfNeeded again
[HUDSuperView addConstraint:self.HUDSuperViewToHUDViewConstraint];
[HUDSuperView addConstraint:self.HUDHeight];
[HUDSuperView layoutIfNeeded];
If you call these within an animateWithDuration it may even animate the appearance...cheesey
Hope this helps - it's probably more of a step toward the solution rather than the solution itself. Recommend minutes 17 and 53 in the AutoLayout by Example video too.
Steve