Loading a View programatically in to a UIViewController - ios

Question

I have 2 questions actually. First I'll explain the scenario. I have a simple Storyboard app. The first controller is a UITableViewController displaying a list of mail types. When tapped upon a cell, it segues to a UIViewController and depending on the selected mail type, it loads a UIView into the UIViewController. This is all working fine. My problems are,
One UIView I have is 559 in height. I put a UIScrollView inside the UIViewController so that when the UIView with the extra height is loaded, it'll be scrollable. But instead of that happening, the UIView resizes to the size of the UIViewController. How can I keep its original height and embed it inside a UIScrollView?
From the Interface builder, I've put a UIToolbar at the bottom of the UIViewController. But when the UIView is loaded into it, the UIToolbar disappears. I guess the UIView appears on top of the UIToolbar(?). How can I avoid this from happening?
I know this must a bit confusing to understand. Therefore I've uploaded an Xcode project demonstrating the 2 issues here.
Please have a look and tell me what I should do.
Thank you.

Answer 1

I see a couple problems with what you're doing in your project that may explain why you're getting these results.
In NewMailViewController.m, you are replacing the view you've created in the storyboard (the one that has a scroll view and a toolbar) with the one you've loaded from the nib (i.e. self.view = [nib objectAtIndex:0];). Try doing this in -loadView
[super loadView];
UIView *someView = nil;
if ([self.mailTypeName isEqualToString:#"Email"]) {
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"Email" owner:self options:nil];
someView = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
else if ([self.mailTypeName isEqualToString:#"Facsimile"]) {
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"Facsimile" owner:self options:nil];
someView = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
else if ([self.mailTypeName isEqualToString:#"Memorandum"]) {
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"Memorandum" owner:self options:nil];
someView = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
else if ([self.mailTypeName isEqualToString:#"ProjectMemo"]) {
NSArray *nib = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"ProjectMemo" owner:self options:nil];
someView = [nib objectAtIndex:0];
}
CGRect frame = someView.frame;
frame.size.width = self.myScrollView.frame.size.width;
[someView setFrame: frame];
[self.myScrollView addSubview: someView];
[self.myScrollView setContentSize: someView.bounds.size];
You'll notice that I have a reference to the scroll view in the above snippet of code. You'll want to create an outlet for the scroll view in your NewMailViewController class so that you can refer to it as needed. It involves putting this in your header file:
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIScrollView *myScrollView;
You'll need to connect the defined outlet to the actual storyboard's scroll view. You can search for "creating or connecting outlets in Xcode" on the Internet for more information about that.
The toolbar appears to be a subview of the scroll view. Don't you want the toolbar to rest at the bottom of the view while the content of the scroll view scrolls? If so, you'll want to move that toolbar view out from within the scroll view.
Here are the changes: http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/90505016/file.html