Fix position of custom view in UIView - ios

I have a custom view with some drawing in drawRect added as subview in a UIView.On tapping on the subview I change the height of the base view.This is done by -
CGRect rect = self.bounds;
rect.size.height = 400.0;
self.bounds = rect;
This also repositions the custom view (sets it to the top of the base view) which I don't want , the subview should remain fixed at the bottom of the UIView.
Y position for the custom view is set to the height of the base view -
y = self.bounds.size.height - 40.0;
This works when the custom control is added for the first time, but does not work when the base view changes height.
I have set self.autoresizesSubviews = NO; for the base view.
If I remove the custom view from the base view and add it again after the height changes nothing is shown , just a blank base view.
Any ideas to fix the position of the custom view to the bottom of the base view.

Try to use
self.bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 400);
It will make the bounds from top left corner to point on the right side of the screen that is 400 pixels below the initial point.
You can also try using method
-(void)layoutSubviews
I don't remember the correct syntax, but I'm pretty sure it was like that.
hope it helps

What about firing setNeedsDisplay method on that view.

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Scrollable UITableView as an overlay

I'm trying to replicate the following GIF from Postmates checkout - a scrollable UITableView positioned on top of a MapView. This tableview can be scrolled, with the normal bounce effect if I go too far down or up.
Currently, I have the MapView and UITableView added as sibling views to my ViewController's view. I have adjusted the frame of the table view to move it down.
CGRect rect = CGRectMake(
0.f,
200.f,
self.view.bounds.size.width,
self.view.bounds.size.height - self.navigationController.navigationBar.bounds.size.height - 200.f
);
The two main issue's I'm having are:
I cannot figure out how to drag the entire tableview down when pulling down. E.g. the grey (my tableView.backgroundColor) sticks when I scroll down. If however, I make that background clear, then when I drag up, you see the map emerging from behind the view.
My cells keep disappearing when I scroll up. I have clipsToBounds = false, and I'm not actually dequeuing cells, just creating them in my cellForRow method, but they still disappear.
I feel like this should be a straightforward layout, but I'm missing something!
I've tried adjusting the contentInset of the table view, but then the scrollbar does not align with the cells as it does in the gif and does not look nice.
We needed similar effect in our app, along with parallax in the underlying view(map here/ we had a photos gallery).
I assume you want something like shown on this blogs video here
I wrote a small blog on how to achieve this. You can find this here
Basically its just a play of contentInsets and contentOffset properties of UITableView
If this does not suits you, here my suggestion in your two main points.
Controller's View has subviews
Map View (fills complete super view)
UITableView (fills complete super view) and in code set content insets.top = kHeightOfVisibleMap
The solution was simpler than I thought, no autolayout or crazy weird tricks required.
Add a full screen table view to your controller, and insert a full screen map view behind it.
self.mapView = [[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
[self.view insertSubview:self.mapView belowSubview:self.tableView];
Add a dummy view with the background color of your table view with a height of around 200 pixels, and a full width, into the tableFooterView on your table view.
CGFloat footerHeight = 200.0;
UIView *dummyView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.tableView.bounds.size.width, footerHeight)];
dummyView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.tableView.tableFooterView = dummyView;
Set the content offset of the table view to be the inverse of that footer view's height:
CGFloat footerHeight = dummyFooterView.bounds.height;
self.tableView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(0, -footerHeight);
Set the content inset of your table view to offset the footer view.
self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(footerHeight, 0, -footerHeight, 0)
Adjust the scrollbar position, again, based on the footer's height.
self.tableView.scrollIndicatorInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(footerHeight, 0, 0, 0);
This will push down the tableview, ensure the scroll bars match the table view, but allow it to bounce 'up' above its initial position and will ensure the background does not peek through the bottom of the tableview.

imageView centered inside scrollView

How can I vertically center an image inside a scrollView?
I'm using storyboards in Xcode 5. The main view is embedded inside a navigation controller, and "Adjust scroll view insets" option is enabled in main Storyboard. This main view has a scrollView which size is equal to the main view size.
The imageView is inside the scrollView and it's the same size as the scrollView. Content mode is set to AspectFit.
So, hierarchy is as follows:
- UINavigationController
- UIView
- UIScrollView
- UIImageView
The image may be landscape or portrait, and can be any size (it's loaded at runtime). This is why imageView is the same size as the scrollView.
How can I vertically center the image inside the scrollView?
EDIT:
As commented before, I have set imageView's contentMode to AspectFit because the image may be too big, so I need it resized. The problem I have is that the image is not center of the scrollView.
You can check screenshot at link and download source code at link.
It will be good to use auto layout as mentioned by #Douglas. However, if you prefer the traditional way, you can also make it work.
I'll first give you the answer and then explain it to you. You should first delete the image view from the storyboard ( I'll explain it later), and then add the viewWillAppear method.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// 1. Add the image view programatically
UIImageView * imageView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"portrait.jpg"]];
[_scrollView addSubview:imageView];
_imageView = imageView;
}
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
// 2. calculate the size of the image view
CGFloat scrollViewWidth = CGRectGetWidth(_scrollView.frame);
CGFloat scrollViewHeight = CGRectGetHeight(_scrollView.frame);
CGFloat imageViewWidth = CGRectGetWidth(_imageView.frame);
CGFloat imageViewHeight = CGRectGetHeight(_imageView.frame);
CGFloat widthRatio = scrollViewWidth / imageViewWidth;
CGFloat heightRation = scrollViewHeight / imageViewHeight;
CGFloat ratio = MIN(widthRatio, heightRation);
CGRect newImageFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, imageViewWidth * ratio, imageViewHeight * ratio);
_imageView.frame = newImageFrame;
// 3. find the position of the imageView.
CGFloat scrollViewCenterX = CGRectGetMidX(_scrollView.bounds);
CGFloat scrollViewCenterY = CGRectGetMidY(_scrollView.bounds) + _scrollView.contentInset.top / 2 ;
_imageView.center = CGPointMake(scrollViewCenterX, scrollViewCenterY);
}
Here is the explanation:
You should not put the imageView in the storyboard, otherwise the frame of the imageView will be fixed by the storyboard, and will not change with the size of the image. Even if you choose UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill, the frame of the imageView is still not changed. It just add some white space around the image.
Now the imageView has the same size as your image. If you want it to be fully displayed, you need to calculate the frame yourself.
Pay attention to the _scrollView.contentInset.top / 2, this is why you need to put the codes in viewWillAppear instead of viewDidLoad. The _scrollView.contentInset.top is the height of the navigation bar and is calculated automatically for you before willViewAppear.
You put your image view in a scrollView, I guess you want to zoom in and out. If this is true, add self.imageView = imageView; and the bottom of viewDidLoad. Set the delegate of _scrollView to self and add the following method:
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
return _imageView;
}
I made a comment, but then took a look at your project. You are almost there. I ran through the following steps and have gotten the result you are looking for.
First, make sure you have auto layout turned ON!!!
In your storyboard click on your scroll view. You had a scroll view that was the same size as the view. You are going to put on some constraints. Down at the bottom of the story board you will see some icons.
The fourth one over looks sort of like an I-beam on its side, it is the pin button. After selecting the scroll view, click on this and it will bring up a pop up menu.
For the scroll view click on all the bars around the middle block so you pin the scroll view to the sides of the main view.
You will notice they are all red now.
Then go and click on the imageview. Once again you had it set to the size of the view. Using the pin button again, you are going to pin just the Width at 320 and the Height at 568. When you are done you are then going to use the next button over.
This is the align button. Click on that after you have selected your image view. You are going to click on Horizontal Center in Container, and Vertical Center in Container.
Next you will need to add one method to your ViewController.m file.
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews
{
[super viewDidLayoutSubviews];
[_scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
}
Start up the simulator and let her rip! You will get one warning though. It says the content size is ambiguous for the scroll view. But that's OK, because you will set it on viewDidLayoutSubviews.
Hope that helps, or helps someone out. Autolayout and scroll views are a bit tough!!
EDIT#1
if you want to then make the image view scalable, by pinch zooming you can do the following.
Make sure you made the .h file follow the UIScrollViewDelagate.
#interface ViewController : UIViewController <UIScrollViewDelegate>
This will allow the scroll view to be able to access the delegate methods of the scroll view. The method you are looking for is called..
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
return self.imageView;
}
Then in the viewDidLoad method of your .m file do the following.
_scrollView.minimumZoomScale = 0.5;
_scrollView.maximumZoomScale = 4.0;
_scrollView.delegate = self;
The underscore and the variable name is the same as self.variable. Either will work.
That should do it. Let me know if it works or if you have any other questions. ENJOY!
These are the ones u can use, the 3 modes of ImageView content display.You can do this by dynamically setting them or u can set them in storyboard too, click on the ImageView and go to properties tab-bar and choose from there, run them and select which output u want.
imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleToFill;
imageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill;
Hope this helps
If you want to center image in an imageview use
imageView.contentMode=UIViewContentModeCenter;
image retains it's size in this this content mode. Alternatively you can use other content modes as per your requirement.
UIViewContentModeScaleToFill,
UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit, // contents scaled to fit with fixed aspect. remainder is transparent
UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill, // contents scaled to fill with fixed aspect. some portion of content may be clipped.
UIViewContentModeRedraw, // redraw on bounds change (calls -setNeedsDisplay)
UIViewContentModeCenter, // contents remain same size. positioned adjusted.
UIViewContentModeTop,
UIViewContentModeBottom,
UIViewContentModeLeft,
UIViewContentModeRight,
UIViewContentModeTopLeft,
UIViewContentModeTopRight,
UIViewContentModeBottomLeft,
UIViewContentModeBottomRight,

Why is my UIView's frame changing unexpectedly after the embedded UITableView is interacted with?

Consider the following UIView "MainView":
The view includes a Container View which in turn houses a UITableView controller. The container view's y coordinate starts just beneath the gradient bar. The UITableView includes the section footer at very bottom with the 'STU' label and 'chart' button.
When the UIView loads, and up-to-and-until any interaction with the tableView, MainView's dimensions are:
Frame: 0.000000x, 0.000000y, 568.000000w, 268.000000h
I have a delegate protocol set up such that tapping the chart button in the tableView will create a new view in MainView for a shadow effect via a method performing:
CGRect newFrame = self.view.frame; // self = MainView
newFrame.size.width = 100;
newFrame.size.height = 50;
UIView *backgroundShadowView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:newFrame];
backgroundShadowView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
// Do Animation
The important part above is the 'newFrame' CGRect. For some reason after interacting with the table view by tapping the chart button, or even scrolling or tapping a row, self.view.frame suddenly has the following dimensions:
Frame: 0.000000x, 52.000000y, 568.000000w, 268.000000h
And so the shadow view appears as follows, with a y origin much farther down than where it would be expected to start, just above the gradient bar.
I've adjusted the width and height of the "shadowview" for this question; normally it would be 568x268, but would extend 52 units off screen on the bottom because of this issue.
52 units is exactly the height of the statusbar (20) + navigationbar_in_landscape (32).
Of course I could manually adjust the frame dimensions, but I do not want to. I want to know why the view's frame is changing unexpectedly.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the view becomes suddenly offset. Any help is appreciated!!
Two comments.
(1)
This code was probably always wrong:
CGRect newFrame = self.view.frame; // self = MainView
newFrame.size.width = 100;
newFrame.size.height = 50;
UIView *backgroundShadowView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:newFrame];
You surely want to define backgroundShadowView's frame in terms of self.view's bounds, not its frame as you are doing in the first line here.
(2)
The change in self.view.frame is probably illusory. You are probably checking this initially in viewDidLoad. But that is too soon; the view has not yet been added to the interface, and so it has not yet been resized to fit the surroundings.

Can't add a UIScrollView to a part of the view

Inside a UIViewController, I need to have the bottom half scrollable. So I added a UIScrollView and positioned it halfway down the view's height. And in the viewDidAppear method, I have put the below two code lines to make it scrollable.
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, self.scrollView.frame.size.height);
self.scrollView.frame = self.view.frame;
This way works if the scroll view fills the entire view, I've tested. But this method didn't work for my need. The scroll view would automatically move up and take up the entire screen. I assumed it was the second line of code which causes this.
So I removed the scroll view, added two UIViews to the view controller. To the bottom view, I added the UIScrollView. And in the viewDidAppear method, I have put the same two code lines changing the second line to refer the frame of the UIView that contains the scroll view..
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, self.scrollView.frame.size.height);
self.scrollView.frame = self.containerView.frame;
But it wouldn't scroll either.
Can anyone please tell me how to do this correctly?
Thank you.
Dude, you keep setting the frame of the scrollView to something completely different from what you're actually trying to achieve.
If all you want to do is setup your scroll view so that it only occupies half the space then why dont you just set the frame so that the height only covers the portion of the screen that you want it to cover; and then set the x & y coordinates so that you draw the scroll view from the right position.
Do something like this:
//Shortcut to view's frame.
CGRect viewsFrame = self.view.frame;
/**
CGRectMake takes 4 parameters: x, y, width, height
x: is set to 0 since you want the scrollview to start from the left with no margin
y: you want the y position to start half way, so we grab the view's height and divide by 2
width: you want your scrollview to span from left to right, so simply grab the view's width
height: you want your scrollview's height to be half of your screen height, so get view's height and divide by 2.
*/
CGRect frameForSV = CGRectMake(0, viewsFrame.size.height/2, viewsFrame.size.width, viewsFrame.size.height/2);
UIScrollView *myScrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:frameForSV];
[self.view addSubview:myScrollView];
Then set your content size not based on an ansolute value, its best to have it based on the size of the content that's actually inside your scrollview so that your scrollview always scrolls to cover all your content inside it.
Also, remember that your scrollview will only scroll if the contentsize is greater than the scrollview's frame
UPDATE 1 after reading your comment in this post simply comment out any code in your viewController.m file related to your scrollview since youre setting up everything in interface builder.
This is the result:

How to get a subview to load properly when starting from landscape orientation

I'm building an iPad app with views that are split horizontally and animate in from the top and bottom (think of jaws sliding closed and open to appear and disappear respectively).
My problem is the layout of the custom jaws subview is broken only when the view loads in a landscape orientation. (The jaws-view container loads at the proper size, but the subsequent subviews for the top and bottom half are too tall, and going off the screen. They are the correct width though.)
I can start in portrait and then rotate and everything is arranged correctly.
I've tried setting the frame of the new view to the bounds of the original in a bunch of places (as suggested by many answers that didn't work for me, links upon request) but either haven't found the right spot, or need something more.
Do I need to do anything special to get the size to propagate? Is there a point before which I should not do animation? (I'm trying to move the top and bottom in my new view controller's viewDidLoad.)
The solution to this required 2 parts.
The first was described in this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8574519/1143123
which describes using viewWillAppear method instead of viewDidLoad (called earlier and "incorrect" values for bounds). This solved the problem of the view being layed out properly when loading that view in landscape (and propagated to subsequent rotations).
The second part was that the view could still get messed up if I started animating it and then did a rotation in the meantime. I changed my animation class to only move the center coordinate (as opposed to sliding the frame) which would have been better in the first place, but that didn't solve it. In the end I hardcoded the following in the ViewController for the class exhibiting these issues:
- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation {
[super didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:fromInterfaceOrientation];
// The container view should match the size of the current view
gameView.frame = self.view.bounds;
CGFloat width = self.view.bounds.size.width;
if(roundInProgress) {
gameView.jawsTop.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, self.view.bounds.size.height/2);
gameView.jawsBottom.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height/2, width, self.view.bounds.size.height/2);
} else {
// If round not in progress, game cards should be offscreen
CGFloat height = self.view.bounds.size.height/2;
gameView.jawsTop.frame = CGRectMake(0, -height, width, height);
gameView.jawsBottom.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height, width, height);
}
}
Without seeing your code my guess is that it has to do with the "Autoresize Subviews" property of your parent view and/or the autosizing set-up for your subviews. Try changing that property in Interface Builder to see if that fixes your issue.

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