I just saw a video demo of control-dragging from the view controller icon for an ipad storyboard at the bottom of a view controller to the toolbar within that view controller. While the view controller icon and the toolbar are not on the screen at the same time, the dragging actually scrolls the storyboard enabling the connection between the two.
However, in my ipad storyboard I am unable to make that auto-scrolling happen and thus unable to complete the control-drag.
Is there a way to make the storyboard scrolling happen while control dragging? I thought of temporarily moving the toolbar to the bottom of the screen to make the connection and then moving it back. But the storyboard won't auto-scroll to let me do that either. I'm using a 13" macbook pro. There appears to be no zoom setting that will have both on the screen at the same time.
Alternately, can someone tell me if there is an alternate way to accomplish that? Which part of the code would I control-drag to?
Thanks.
according to this, one can accomplish the same by control-dragging to the icon of the corresponding element (in my case the toolbar) in "document outline pane" which sits between the project navigator and the (storyboard) canvas.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/SecondiOSAppTutorial/GettingStarted/GettingStarted.html
doing so would bypass the inability to autoscroll within the storyboard.
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in my universal app I have an UITableViewController embedded in a UINavigationController. When I add a UIView to the top of the tableView and insert a UILabel which is centered in the container, the label is only visible on iPhone but not on iPad.
I tried creating a new testapp, only consisting of these two controllers, the view and the label. It works on both, iPhone and iPad. So I added two new controllers to my app in the same way and made the navigation controller the initial view controller. Label is visible on iPhone but not on iPad.
For me it seems, that I have changed some global settings in the app; on another view I have similar problems with stackViews, but I first concentrate on this "simple" problem...
Any ideas what might be wrong in my app-settings?
tableViewController embedded in navigationController
Take a UIViewController embedded in a UINavigationController. Add View, Label, and TableView and check it
Ok. Now I know what was the problem. Never have checked, what's going on with those size classes.
During development I changed from any/any to a smaller size, not knowing, that this is not only taking effect on the layout in the storyboard. Everything I added after changing did'nt show on iPad.
Solution: Select storyboard, in "File Inspector", uncheck "Use Size Classes"
Strange thing happened just now. I set my VC size to 4.7 inch in the storyboard settings and then tried to add a standard button control to the top left of my view controller. It wouldn't let me place it where I wanted, and defaulted to centre position in view controller. Same happened when I tested another UI control. Any idea why this is happening?
Edit: I also can't select any controls from VC in storyboard to move their position. So the button is in centre position but I can't select it from there to reposition.
I am using SWRevealViewController as a slide menu in iOS. When I created the rear viewcontroller (the slide menu) a xib file was created with .m and .h files. I do not use autolayout and set the simulated metrics size as None.
The view seems all right when slide in and out on iPhone except that when the view is presented on iPad I want the positions of the menus to also change as the view becomes bigger but it doesn't.
Originally the view is as the image below shows:
In order to move the "settings" menu to the bottom I have made changes to the view settings of "settings image", "settings button" and the extra UIImageView as below:
but I want the settings menu to also locate at the bottom of the view just like it is now on iPhone. How can I do that?
I have used "Masonry" library to sort this out.
It is pretty amazing.
Check out Masonry from GitHub
I have a screen that doesn't fit into a 3.5 inch phone screen. In iOS 6 I had the contents of the screen in a scroll view, but in iOS 7 that option is constantly grayed out.
Here is the screen shot
Would anyone know how to add the scrolling to my screen in ios 7?
Thank you!
Second screen shot with the scroll view.
Rather than selecting the entire view controller, you need to have a view selected. The options in Editor -> Embed In are contextual and since you have then entire view controller selected, your only options are to embed the whole VC within a Navigation Controller or a Tab Bar Controller.
If you can't get the right selection by clicking within Interface Builder, try expanding the outline view and selecting your view. Then try to embed your view within a scrollview.
Note that your root view must be a UIView, so you won't be able to embed the root view in a scrollview because that would put a scroll view at the root.
Three problems I ran into that I hope can help:
1) Make sure "Safe Area", or other object that shouldn't be there, isn't one of the objects selected in your view while trying to embed. For a simple test select just one simple object like a textfield or label and see if the Editor -> Embed In is still greyed out and work backwards if you have to.
2) You're going from View > Content to View > ScrollView > View > Content. So after embedding in a scrollview, embed in a view.
3) Once embedded make sure your scrollview is less than your content size, or it won't scroll: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28146729/1323357
I've based my app on Apple's SplitView project type. I have a TableView as the Master, and am using different types of views as the Detail view. To select types of detail view, I'm using the fancy concept of buttons on my DetailView toolbar. When the DetailView is derived from UIViewController, everything is good. When the DetailView derives from UIViewController, but contains a UITableView then I have problems. In portrait view the toolbar is visible. In landscape mode the toolbar is hidden, even though the Tableview is moved down to allow space for it. The UIToolbar and UITableView are both defined in my NIB file which is loaded to create the detail view. Why is my toolbar invisible in landscape?
BTW, is this the best way to choose Detail view types with UISplitView? Bonus question, what if selecting a row in my DetailView tableview should bring up another View, I can't push it like I would with a NaviagtionController, so how do I go back to the detail tableview?
Thanks, Gerry
HI Gerry,
I have faced the same toolbar problem, when trying to rotate the splitView, toolbar will disappear. If you are creating the toolbar in the interface builder, try to set the toolbar properties(size), by selecting the toolbar, then --> Tools -->Size inspector, in the autosizing section, mark the left, right and upper red lines and unmark the bottom red line, then everything will works fine.
-Maria
Bonus question, I would create a UINavigationController in code, set it's rootcontroller to the DetailView tableview (self) and then push the new view on top of it.
When you react to the rotation change are you using the same view or a different one for the detail view? Seems like the new view may not contain an instance of the toolbar? Or the Tableview is covering it up because the landscape view has less vertical room than the portrait view. Are you resetting the height of the tableview to allow space for the toolbar within the 768 height when rotating to landscape?
Just a tip but whenever I run into odd things like this I remove the elements from the NIB file and create them programmatically in code and it usually solves the problem. You get a lot more control over things when you do. Overall as I've gained more experience with programming for iPhone OS I've found that I rarely put much into a NIB file any longer and do almost everything in code now.