Getting the visible label text from UIScrollView - ios

I have added 10 labels to to display 0 to 9 in UIScrollView, User can see only one label in UIScrollView visible part. User needs to scroll to see other labels. How to determine which label is currently visible in UIScrollView after scroll view decelerating.
Thanks in advance

Use the scroll view's contentOffset and calculate how many "pages" down they have scrolled by dividing the y offset by the content size height.

When scrolling is complete compare contentOffset value with labels positions or view to see which label is currently shown:
Use this method for getting scrolled position:
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
NSLog(#"%f", scrollView.contentOffset.y);
//your logic to check shown label...
int currentVisiblePage = (scrollView.contentOffset.y / self.view.frame.size.height) + 1;
}

if you just want a single scrollable label, would be to use UITextView instead (reference). Disable editing, and you get a scrollable label.
(Taken almost verbatim from: how to add a scroll function to a UILabel)
For more detail:
UILabel inside of UIScrollView – programmatically
Sample code
AutoScrollLabel

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UITextView content size calculation after setting text

I've added a UITextView with Autolayout constraints in Storyboard. I am filling it up with text coming via API response. I want to use a custom vertical progress bar as user scrolls through UITextView. For this I need to know the current position and total height of content in UITextView. When I write this code in
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
NSLog(#"Hello : %f %f",_readerTextView.contentSize.height, _readerTextView.contentOffset.y);
}
I get the current position but I don't get the total content height during initial stages of scrolling. I only get the total content height as I reach bottom of UITextView. How do I get the total content height as and when I set the text in my UITextView?

UITextView content offset changes after setting frame

I'm building a view that's very similar to the messages app - I have a subview at the bottom of the page with a UITextView in it and as the user types and reaches the end of the line the text view as well as the view containing it should expand upward.
The way I have it working is that in the textViewDidChange: method I call my layout function, and that does
CGFloat textViewWidth = 200;
CGFloat textViewHeight = [self.textView sizeThatFits:CGSizeMake(textViewWidth, 2000)].height;
[self resizeParentWithTextViewSize:CGSizeMake(textViewWidth, textViewHeight)];
// And then the resize parent method eventually calls
textView.frame = CGRectMake(10, 10, textViewWidth, textViewHeight);
The problem is that when typing at the end of line and the view expands, I end up with an arbitrary contentOffset.y of something like 10.5 on the text view so the text is all shifted up to the top of the view. Weirdly, it's alternating on every other line, so expanding the first time leaves the y content offset shifted up, then at the next line it's close to zero, then back to 10.5 on the next line, etc. (not sure if that's helpful or just a strange artifact of my values). I can set it back to zero afterwards but it looks terrible because there's a brief flash where the text has the offset value and then it gets shifted back to the middle.
I've read that it's usually better to use content insets for scroll views rather than changing the frame, but I don't get how to do that because I do need to change the frame size as well.
How can I resize the UITextView without this happening? I think I can get by with setting the text view not to be scrollable and that fixes the issue, but I'd like to understand what's going on.
The problem is that UITextView's scroll animation and your frame setting action were happened at the same time.
UITextView internally scrolls the texts you currently typing to visible when typed one more character at the end of the line or typed the new line character. But the scroll animation does not need because you are expanding the textview. Unfortunately we can't control textview's internal scroll action so the text scrolls to the top of the expanded textview weirdly. And that weird scroll makes unnecessary bottom padding too.
You can avoid this weird action very simply with overriding UITextView's setContentOffset:animated: like this.
Objective-C
- (void)setContentOffset:(CGPoint)contentOffset animated:(BOOL)animated {
[super setContentOffset:contentOffset animated:NO];
}
Swift
override func setContentOffset(_ contentOffset: CGPoint, animated: Bool) {
super.setContentOffset(contentOffset, animated: false)
}
This code avoids the auto sizing UITextView's unnecessary scroll animations and you can expand the size of the text view freely.
Setting textView.scrollable = NO lets me resize the text view without any strange offsets, that's the only way I've been able to figure out. And I guess it's not too much of a limitation for common scenarios, if you want the text view to be scrollable you probably don't need to resize it on the fly since the user can scroll around as the content changes.
I confronted the same issue: changing the UITextView's frame to fit its content had a side effect on the scroll position being wrong. The UITextView scrolled even when the contentSize was fitting the bounds.
I ended up with setting scrollEnabled to true and with rolling the content offset back if the UITextView is not actually scrollable
override var contentOffset: CGPoint {
didSet {
if iOS8 {
// here the contentOffset may become non zero whereas it shouldn't be
if !isContentScrollable && contentOffset.y > 0 {
contentOffset.y = 0
}
}
}
}
var isContentScrollable: Bool {
let result = ceil(contentSize.height) > ceil(height)
return result
}
Actually, I faced the same issue and found that actually this happens only when UITextView has any Autolayout constraints. If you will try to use UITextView without applying any Constraint then this will not happen and will work fine. but, as you apply Auto layout constraints it automatically scrolls to bottom. To deal with this I just add method
-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews{
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
self.textView.contentOffset = CGPointZero;
}

Fixed horizontal position of Segmented Control

I have one UIImageView (building's floor map) and UIScrollView with gesture recognisers which allow me to scroll horizontally and vertically, zoom in/out. Everything works OK, but the building has two floors, so user should have the option to switch between them. I decided to use segmented control at the top of the map to provide this option.
If I put Segmented Control to the same UIScrollView, it scrolls vertically as well as horizontally. What I am asking is how to fix horizontal position of the Segmented Control, so it will be able to scroll only vertically with map.
I am trying to use this code to test, if it fixes the position of Segmented Control absolutely, but it seems to be that it doesn't.
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
CGRect frame = _floorSelector.frame;
frame.origin.y=50;
frame.origin.x= 160;
_floorSelector.frame = frame;
}
Where is the mistake? Thank you for replies!
I think the issue here is you are misunderstanding how scrolling is implemented in a UIScrollView, and how things are placed in its coordinate space.
When a UIScrollView is scrolled, the frames of its subviews are not changed. Relative to the scrollview, they remain in the same position while the contentOffset and bounds of the scroll view changes. In order to make a subview of a scroll view appear static while the rest of it scrolls, you must change its frame within the scrollview as the bounds change.
With that in mind, what you are doing now is just setting the same frame on that subview repeatedly, which is the same as not doing anything.
It sounds like what you want to do is something like this:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
CGRect frame = _floorSelector.frame;
frame.origin.x = 160 + scrollView.contentOffset.x;
_floorSelector.frame = frame;
}
Notice I do not change anything in the y axis because based on your question, the vertical scrolling doesn't need to be changed.

Make UIView scroll with UITableView but pin to top out of view

I currently have a view controller that is comprised of a Navigation bar, followed by a UIView that has two UIButtons added as subViews. There is then a UITableView underneath that begins at the bottom of the container UIView.
At the moment, when the user scrolls the UITableView it goes behind the UIView and UIButtons. What I actually want to happen is for the UIView and UIButtons to move up with the table view but only by the value of their height which in this case is 58 pixels. The flow would be like this...
1) Table scrolls and the UIView moves with it for the first 58 pixels.
2) The user continues to scroll the table but the UIView "pins" itself just out of view under the navigation bar.
3) When the user scrolls the table back down the UIView is then picked up and dragged back into view. I believe the new Facebook app does something similar in the timeline.
I don't want to set the UIView as the TableHeaderView of the table as I also have a pull-to-refresh which then sits above the buttons and looks terrible. I've tried playing around with the contentOffset properties of the underlying scrollview of the table but have hit a brick wall.
Any advice on where to start would be appreciated.
Thanks
EDIT: I am gotten a little further and using this code to move the frame of the UIView.
-(void) scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
NSLog (#"Content Offset: %f", self.tableView.contentOffset.y);
NSLog (#"Button Frame: %f", self.btnBackground.frame.origin.y);
if (self.tableView.contentOffset.y > 0)
{
CGRect newFrame = self.btnBackground.frame;
newFrame.origin.x = 0;
newFrame.origin.y = -self.tableView.contentOffset.y;
[self.btnBackground setFrame: newFrame];
}
}
The problem now is that the scrollViewDidScroll delegate method doesn't get fired quickly enough if the table view is scrolled fast. The result is that the UIView doesn't quite make all way back to its original position when scroll quickly.
The scroll content offset is a good idea. Also if you tableview has only one section one approach is to do a custom header view representing the top level widgets. If there is more than one sections create an additional empty section which would return your custom header.
You can refer to this stack overflow post.
Customize UITableview Header Section
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well , for me i would first : use a main UIScrollView that contains both your topView and the tableView under it and that has the same width as your top UIView and UITableView and set its height to be height(tableView) + height(topView).
Second : since UITableView is a subClass of UISCrollView you can use scrollViewDidScroll delegate to know if the tableview is scrolled up or down.
in this cas you will have Two cases :
1) tableview is scrolled up = > you set the content offset of the main scrollView to be
[scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 58) animated:YES];
2) when the table view is scrolled down you can reset the content offset again
[scrollView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, 0) animated:YES];

UICollectionView, paging, and clipsToBounds [duplicate]

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UICollectionView: paging like Safari tabs or App Store search
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I've got a collection view whose content is scrolled horizontally and needs to be visible for the full width of the device. The collection view has clipsToBounds set to NO and it's frame is 600 wide with pagingEnabled set to YES.
The effect I'm looking for is that content would appear to slide under another view, however when the cell is scrolled outside the frame of the collection view then it is removed so that it can be reused.
Anyone know how I might get this to work, or achieve a similar effect?
Below is the simplest way that I've found to get this effect. It involves your collection view and an extra secret scroll view.
Set up your collection views
Set up your collection view and all its data source methods.
Frame the collection view; it should span the full width that you want to be visible.
Set the collection view's contentInset:
_collectionView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, (self.view.frame.size.width-pageSize)/2, 0, (self.view.frame.size.width-pageSize)/2);
This helps offset the cells properly.
Set up your secret scrollview
Create a scrollview, place it wherever you like. You can set it to hidden if you like.
Set the size of the scrollview's bounds to the desired size of your page.
Set yourself as the delegate of the scrollview.
Set its contentSize to the expected content size of your collection view.
Move your gesture recognizer
Add the secret scrollview's gesture recognizer to the collection view, and disable the collection view's gesture recognizer:
[_collectionView addGestureRecognizer:_secretScrollView.panGestureRecognizer];
_collectionView.panGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
Delegate
- (void) scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
CGPoint contentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset;
contentOffset.x = contentOffset.x - _collectionView.contentInset.left;
_collectionView.contentOffset = contentOffset;
}
As the scrollview moves, get its offset and set it to the offset of the collection view.
I blogged about this here, so check this link for updates: http://khanlou.com/2013/04/paging-a-overflowing-collection-view/

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