UnEven Behaviour of UIView when setHidden - ios

Question

I've created 5 UIView dynamically, which consists of one UILabel and one UIButton each. When I click button, the UIView will setHidden. But it works only on one not other four uiviews.
#interface ViewController : UIViewController
{
NSMutableArray *newViews;
}
#property(nonatomic,retain)IBOutlet UILabel *welcome;
#property(nonatomic,retain)CustomView *custom;
-(void)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)sender;
#end
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSString *name=#"string of length";
int length=[name length];
newViews = [NSMutableArray array];
NSMutableArray *myArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:#"cricket", #"golf",#"wrestling", #"FootBall is good game", nil];
int yAxis=44;
int lengthOfArray=[myArray count];
for(int a=0; a<=lengthOfArray; a++){
self.custom= [[CustomView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, yAxis, 100, 44)];
yAxis=yAxis+50;
NSLog(#"yaxis is %i",yAxis);
self.custom.tag=200+a;
[newViews addObject:self.custom];
self.custom.Label = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5,5, length+70, 30)];
self.custom.button=[[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(85,10,12,10)];
UIImage *btnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"button_droparrow.png"];
[self.custom.button setImage:btnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.custom.button addTarget:self action:#selector(buttonPressed:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
self.custom.button.tag=self.custom.button.tag+a;
self.custom.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];
custom.Label.text=#"welcome";
custom.Label.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
[self.custom addSubview:self.custom.button];
[self.custom addSubview:custom.Label];
[self.view addSubview:self.custom];
}
[self.custom.button addTarget:self action:#selector(buttonPressed:)forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchDown];
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
}
-(void)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)sender
{
[self.custom setHidden:YES];
}
#end
Kindly help me. I am new in iOS development. I need here to create UIView with differrnt reference and that reference assign to UIButton to close that particular UIView but I could not get result out.

Answer 1

You could use UISegmentedControl along with number of xib for each UIView.
In each UIView you can place the required UIControls and link the same.
In the delegate method of SegmentedControl 'indexDidChangeForSegmentedControl:(UISegmentedControl *)sender' on each index remove the earlier UIView and add the required UIView.
In the main header file add the IBOutlet for each UIView
#property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet UIView *view1;
#property (nonatomic, weak) IBOutlet UIView *view2;
In .m file in the delegate method 'indexDidChangeForSegmentedControl'
- (IBAction)indexDidChangeForSegmentedControl:(UISegmentedControl *)sender {
NSUInteger index = sender.selectedSegmentIndex;
if (UISegmentedControlNoSegment != index) {
if (currentIndex == index) {
return;
}
currentIndex = index;
switch (index) {
case 0:
{
[self.previousView removeFromSuperview];
[self.view addSubview:view1];
self.previousView = view1;
}
break;
case 1:
{
[self.previousView removeFromSuperview];
[self.view addSubview:view2];
self.previousView = view2;
}
break;
}
}
}
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you want to use properties, you will have to make a property for each view. Instead, if you want to create them dynamicaly you could store the references to each view in an array.
The next you should know/do is to add a tag to each button. A tag is just a number, which in this case should reference to its position in the Array.
Then based on the button tag (that you can retrieve from the sender) you can retrieve the proper view/button from the array and change the Hidden property on it.
For example (pseudo code/this wont compile):
Creating the views array
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableArray *views;
In View did load create the views
views = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
int nrOfViews = 5;
for(int a=0; a<=nrOfViews; a++){
UIView *view = create UIView here.
UIButton *button = create button here.
[view addSubView: button];
[button setTag: a];
[views addObject: view];
}
reference to the view through the pointer retained in the array, find the right one based on the button tag.
-(void)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)sender
{
UIView *view = [views objectAtIndex: sender.tag]; //using the button tag to identify the right view.
[view setHidden: yes];
}

Answer 3

Try something like this:
- (void) buttonPressed: (UIButton*) sender
{
UIView* view = sender.superview;
view.hidden = YES;
}

Answer 4

You need to make some changes as follows
#property(nonatomic,strong)IBOutlet UILabel *welcome; // new arc code
#property(nonatomic,strong)UIView *custom; // new arc code
self.custom = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, yAxis, 100, 44)];