UIScrollView not scrolling all the way - iphone

I have programmed a UIScrollView to scroll 320x800 however it stops scrolling a certain way down, even if I change the size in code it still stops scrolling the same way down, my only idea is the view is 548px in height. Here is the code I currently have in 'ViewController.m'.
[ScrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
[ScrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(320, 800)];
This code currently holds in - (void)viewDidLoad. All the links are made in Interface Builder and I get no errors while compiling. Just thought I should say I'm in Xcode 4.5.2.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
Edit: I should say that the UIScrollView still scrolls but only some way.

You get a clearer picture of what's wrong by trying the following...
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[ScrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(320, 800)]; // consider renaming to lowercase 'scrollView'
for (int i = 50; i < 800; i += 50) {
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, i, 100, 22)];
label.text = [NSString string withFormat:#"label at y=%d", i];
[ScrollView addSubview:label];
}
}
Note that the loop ends at 750, so that's the last label you should see.

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How to show multiple images inside UIScrollView in iOS

I am making one iPhone app in which i need to show some images inside UIScrollView, on left and right there will be two buttons user can click on button and it will show the next or previous image. Also at the bottom there is one button, when user will click on that button it will show the image which we have selected in scrollview.I would like to know how do we show multiple images inside that scrollview and while selecting bottom button, how to find which image was there inside scrollview.
An example from danielbeard.wordpress.com
In case your image names aren't just numbers:
UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
[scrollView setPagingEnabled:YES];
[scrollView setAlwaysBounceVertical:NO];
NSArray *imagesArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"img1.png", #"img2.png", #"img3.png", nil];
for (int i = 0; i < [imagesArray count]; i++)
{
CGFloat xOrigin = i * scrollView.frame.size.width;
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(xOrigin, 0, scrollView.frame.size.width, scrollView.frame.size.height)];
[imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:[imagesArray objectAtIndex:i]]];
[imageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
[scrollView addSubview:imageView];
}
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(scrollView.frame.size.width * [imagesArray count], scrollView.frame.size.height)];
have look on to this example:
http://danielbeard.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/adding-a-uiscrollview-to-a-uiview-ios/
Apple.developer PhotoScroller demonstrates the use of embedded UIScrollViews and CATiledLayer to create a rich user experience for displaying and paginating photos that can be individually panned and zoomed.
CATiledLayer is used to increase the performance of paging, panning, and zooming with high-resolution images or large sets of photos.
you just simply first
create a new view on runtime and image and assign tag all views like 1000 or 100 and increment on tag value and then add this view to scrollview and two buttons for left and right moving and make their outlet actions and add all the scrollview sub views in to an mutable array like this
indexStart=100;
UIView *AddView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(55, 0, 100, 100)];
AddView.tag=indexStart;
btnTap.tag=indexStart;
UIImageView *imgview=[[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
[AddView addSubview:imgview];
imgview.image=image;
imgview.tag=1000;
[ScrollView addSubview:AddView];
[imgArray addObject:AddView];
you use loop to do this and on left and right button you use this code and in this code editImgeView is the image view inbetween left and right button where you show the image you just simple indexstart ++ or -- if user choose right or left button
for (int index = 0; index < [imgAddArrayAfter count]; index ++ ) {
NSLog(#"index %d",index);
UIView *vc=[imgArray objectAtIndex:index];
NSLog(#"view tag %d",vc.tag);
if(vc.tag == indexStart)
{
UIImageView *modalView=(UIImageView *) [vc viewWithTag:1000];
editImgeView.image=modalView.image;
}
}
i hope you understand ;-)
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 465);
[scrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
[scrollView setPagingEnabled:YES];
[scrollView setAlwaysBounceVertical:NO];
[self.view addSubview:scrollView];
NSMutableArray *arrImage = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:#"food1.jpeg", #"food2.jpeg", #"food3.jpeg",#"food4.jpeg", #"food5.jpeg", #"food6.jpeg",#"food7.jpeg", #"food8.jpeg", #"foo9.jpeg",#"food10.jpeg", #"food11.jpeg", #"food12.jpeg",#"food13.jpeg", #"food14.jpeg", #"food15.jpeg", #"food16.jpeg", nil];
for (int i = 0; i < [arrImage count]; i++)
{
CGFloat xOrigin = i * scrollView.frame.size.width;
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(xOrigin, 0, scrollView.frame.size.width, scrollView.frame.size.height)];
[imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:[arrImage objectAtIndex:i]]];
[imageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
[scrollView addSubview:imageView];
}
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(scrollView.frame.size.width * [arrImage count], scrollView.frame.size.height)];
}
I know this thread is old, but I think the problem with loading lot's of images in the scroll view still exists. If you ever want to load images in the scroll view you will face a problem of memory usage. The images most likely will consume most of your device's memory. The only way of doing is to create reusable scroll view that works similar to the uitableview - the scroll view that has pool of views (with images) ready to display. This can be quite complex to create.
I have created open source project to support reusable loading images in the scroll view. It is very easy to implement. You need to call couple of delegate and data source methods and that's it. There is also sample project for obj-c and swift in order to make easy to understand. Please feel free to contribute. I hope it will be useful.
here is a source: https://github.com/sumofighter666/ReusableScrollView

How to add View below other view in ViewController in iOS?

In my app i am creating view controller with mixed of UILabel and UITextview which want to be scrollable because the text are dynamic and also exceeds vertical screen size.
I am currently having Scrollview which has subviews as below. Views are created in Xcode 4.3 Storyboard.
UILabel1(Say Heading)
UITextView1(Dynamic text which can be any size)
UILabel2(Second Heading)
UITextView2(Dynamic text which can be any size)
and so on.
The problem is
When the UITextView1 has more content then it overlaps with UILabel2 which i don't want.
I would like to have UILabel1 on top of scrollView and UITextView1 below the UILabel1. UILabel2 below UITextView1 and so on.
What i have to do to achieve this?
EDIT
In Storyboard
![enter image description here][1]
In Simulator
![enter image description here][2]
Thanks for your help guys. Much appreciated.
Code
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
[scrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
[self.view addSubview:cockTailNameLabel];
[self.view insertSubview:txtIngredients belowSubview:cockTailNameLabel];
[self.view insertSubview:scrollView belowSubview:cockTailNameLabel];
//[scrollView]
[self.cockTailNameLabel setText:self.passcockTailName];
[_txtUse setText:self.passUse];
[_txtUse setEditable:NO];
[_txtUse setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
CGRect useFrame = _txtUse.frame;
useFrame.size.height = _txtUse.contentSize.height;
_txtUse.frame = useFrame;
[txtIngredients setText:self.passIngredients];
[txtIngredients setEditable:NO];
[txtIngredients setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
CGRect ingredientFrame = txtIngredients.frame;
ingredientFrame.size.height = txtIngredients.contentSize.height;
txtIngredients.frame = ingredientFrame;
[txtRecipe setText:self.passReceipe];
[txtRecipe setEditable:NO];
[txtRecipe setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
CGRect recipeFrame = txtIngredients.frame;
recipeFrame.size.height = txtRecipe.contentSize.height;
txtRecipe.frame = recipeFrame;
[scrollView insertSubview:_txtUse belowSubview:cockTailNameLabel];
[scrollView insertSubview:titleIngredients belowSubview:_txtUse];
[scrollView insertSubview:txtIngredients belowSubview:titleIngredients];
[scrollView insertSubview:btnReceipe belowSubview:txtIngredients];
[scrollView insertSubview:btnHome belowSubview:txtIngredients];
[scrollView insertSubview:txtRecipe belowSubview:btnHome];
[scrollView insertSubview:btnfacebookShare belowSubview:txtRecipe];
[scrollView insertSubview:btnTwitterShare belowSubview:txtRecipe];
/*[scrollView addSubview:_txtUse];
[scrollView addSubview:titleIngredients];
[scrollView addSubview:txtIngredients];
[scrollView addSubview:btnReceipe];
[scrollView addSubview:btnHome];
[scrollView addSubview:txtRecipe];
[scrollView addSubview:btnfacebookShare];
[scrollView addSubview:btnTwitterShare];*/
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(320, 1000)];
NSLog(#"RecipeName :%# ",passcockTailName);
}
In Storyboard or IB you can rearrange them freely.
In code you do - (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view belowSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview.
In code (in viewDidLoad):
UIScrollView *scroll =[[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGrectMake(0,0 320, 480)];
[self.view addSubview:scroll];
// code to init your UI object
UILabel *uilabel1 = [[UIlabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGrectMake(10,10, 100, 40)]; // example
uilabel1.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:10];
uilabel1.text = #"UILabel1";
uilabel1.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
//
//
UILabel *uilabel2 = [[UIlabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGrectMake(10, 10 + 10 + uilabel1.frame.origin.y, 100, 40)]; // example
uilabel2.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:10];
uilabel2.text = #"UILabel2";
uilabel2.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
//
//
[scroll addSubview:uilabel1];
[uilabel1 releale];
[scroll addSubview:uilabel2];
[uilabel2 releale];
//
//
// in end
float offset = 10.0 * 2; // offset between uiobjects, N - number of objects
scroll.contentSize = CGSizeMake (0, 0, uilabel1.frame.size.height + uilabel2.frame.size.height + offset, 320);
Note that you may set frame (and other properties) of yours uiobjects and adds it in order to descend.
You can tell next view to start from the end of the first view like so:
startYOfNextView = firstView.frame.origin.y position + firstView.frame.size.height;
Do the same for the rest of the other view. If your view has variable text length, you may need to precaculate the height of the string based on a specific font e.g.:
CGSize maxSize = CGSizeMake(widthOfView, 9999999);
CGSize expectedSize = CGSizeMake(stringVar sizeWithFont:[UIFont fontWithName:#"Arial"] withMaxSize:maxSize lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap);
then tell your dynamic view to use the height of expectedSize variable like so:
myDynamicView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(..., expectedSize.height)];
Your issue is labels are coming on top of the textview (Overlapped), right?
In This case, you are modifying the height of the textview dynamically. If its just for display purpose you can set the text to a UILabel with numberOfLines = 0 instead of UITextview; As its added to scrollview adding a label will be fine.
Also you need to modify the origin.y of the remaining views so that it will be properly aligned. ie, secondView.origin.y = firstView.origin.y + firstView.size.height + offset. Likewise modify the origin of the remaining views wrt the just above view. So that its origin will lie outside the previous view frame.
In my case I had to project it over the parent view, so remember there is also something,
- (void)insertSubview:(UIView *)view aboveSubview:(UIView *)siblingSubview
I think adding a transparent UI button is the fastest solution. You could add it once and then show / hide whenever you need to disable all views below the current one (assuming the "current" view, say a popup, was added last to your superview).
Declare an instance variable UIButton* _parentDisablingOverlay; in your popup view, then add this in its init or layoutSubviews method:
_parentDisablingOverlay = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0, self.superview.frame.size.width, self.superview.frame.size.height)];
[self.superview insertSubview:_parentDisablingOverlay belowSubview:self];
_parentDisablingOverlay.hidden = true;
Later on, when you want to show the popup and disable everything below:
- (void) open {
self.hidden = false;
_parentDisablingOverlay.hidden = false;
}
Similarly to close and re-enable everything:
- (void) close {
self.hidden = true;
_parentDisablingOverlay.hidden = true;
}

iOS - UIScrollView is not working (it doesn't scroll at all - the image stays fixed)

I would like to display an image (width: 320 pixels, height: 1250 pixels) in an image view.
When I compile the application I get no scrolling at all. The view stays fixed.
What I did:
Added an UIScrollView via Interface Builder to my view.
Added an UIImageView via Interface Builder to my view.
Verified that UIImageView is below UIScrollView in Interface Builder.
Set the size of the UIScrollView with ViewDidLoad.
How do I do this?
Code:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 1250);
}
Screenshots:
ImageView:
ScrollView:
I just have done the same task..
Try this one.....
scrollView.delegate = self;
scrollView.scrollEnabled = YES;
int scrollWidth = 120;
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(scrollWidth,80);
int xOffset = 0;
imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[imagesName objectAtIndex:0]];
for(int index=0; index < [imagesName count]; index++)
{
UIImageView *img = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
img.bounds = CGRectMake(10, 10, 50, 50);
img.frame = CGRectMake(5+xOffset, 0, 50, 50);
NSLog(#"image: %#",[imagesName objectAtIndex:index]);
img.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[imagesName objectAtIndex:index]];
[images insertObject:img atIndex:index];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(scrollWidth+xOffset,110);
[scrollView addSubview:[images objectAtIndex:index]];
xOffset += 70;
}
Also set this one....
imagesName = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:#"image1.jpg",#"image2.jpg",#"image3.jpg",#"image4.jpg",#"image5.jpg",#"image6.png",#"image7.png",#"image9.png",nil];
images = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
So for me the problem was that setting the content size didn't work in viewDidLoad(). I tried everything and I didn't understand why it wouldn't want to work, and then I tried the same stuff in viewDidAppear() and it magically worked...
From you last screenshot and from your comments it looks like your scrollView is way to big.
The scrollview must be visible on screen completely. For example a full screen UIScrollView on iPhone would have a size of 320 x 460.
If the scrollview is the same size as its content you can't scroll.
The greenish rectangle shows the size of your scrollview, the pinkish the size of your content (your image):
Xcode 11+, Swift 5
You can find the complete solution here.
I came across this same issue on iOS6 and the solution was to programmatically adjust the ContentSize.
So I will just quote from Raja (above) to show this:
CGSize scrollViewContentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 400);
[self.scrollView setContentSize:scrollViewContentSize];
NOTE: I was not having this issue on iOS5.. seems like iOS6 decided to do alot of prank just like the rotation/orientation saga
Since Xcode 5 it does not work like before. Also scrolling to the end of a scrollable text field makes problems. There are also differences between doing it on iPhone or iPad. On iPhone it worked without delayed timer.
This worked for me:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSTimer *timerforScrollView;
timerforScrollView =[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1
target:self selector:#selector(forScrollView)userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
}
- (void) forScrollView {
[scrollviewPad setScrollEnabled:YES];
[scrollviewPad setContentSize:CGSizeMake(768, 1015)]; // must be greater then the size in Storyboard
}
I found I had a similar problem but none of the above code worked. The issue was due to autolayout. I found that if I turned off autolayout by going to the storyboard clicking on Utilities -> File Inspector and unchecked Use Autolayout the scrolling did work (I also set scroll.contentSize = ...).
Sometimes autoLayout checkbox is ticked in the xib. That also creates this issue in xcode 5. Which makes the UIScrollView scrolling off.
Don't forget to add the category protocol to the interface, like this
#interface MyViewController : <UIScrollViewDelegate>
If you don't, you will not be able to set the scroll view delegate to self
(i.e. [MyScrollView setDelegate:self];)
If you do this, it should work.
My code is:
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[contentScrollView setDelegate:self];
[contentScrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
contentScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(310, 500);
contentScrollView.frame = CGRectMake(5, 188, 310, 193);
}
Did you assign the scroll's view delegate? Always remember these:
[self.scrollView setDelegate:self];
[self.scrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
The image view has to be a subview (so inside AND below) of the scrollview. From your description it seems they are paralell
You forgot one line. Add this to your view load function:
[scrollView setScrollEnabled:YES];
You could try disabling AutoLayout. In XCode 5 I tested all the above answers and I could only scroll it by disabling autolayout and activating all autosizing masks under the Size Inspector. The following code was used too:
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 900);
self.scrollView.delegate = self;
self.scrollView.scrollEnabled = YES;
self.scrollView.frame = self.view.frame;
CGRect scrollViewFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 400);
self.scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:scrollViewFrame];
[self.view addSubview:self.scrollView];
CGSize scrollViewContentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 400);
[self.scrollView setContentSize:scrollViewContentSize];
scrollView.delegate = self;
[self.scrollView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[scrollView setCanCancelContentTouches:NO];
scrollView.indicatorStyle = UIScrollViewIndicatorStyleWhite;
scrollView.clipsToBounds = YES;
scrollView.scrollEnabled = YES;
scrollView.pagingEnabled = YES;
NSUInteger nimages = 0;
CGFloat cx = 0;
for (; ; nimages++) {
NSString *imageName = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"image%d.jpg", (nimages + 1)];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:imageName];
if (image == nil) {
break;
}
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
CGRect rect = imageView.frame;
rect.size.height = image.size.height;
rect.size.width = image.size.width;
rect.origin.x = ((scrollView.frame.size.width - image.size.width) / 2) + cx;
rect.origin.y = ((scrollView.frame.size.height - image.size.height) / 2);
imageView.frame = rect;
[scrollView addSubview:imageView];
[imageView release];
cx += scrollView.frame.size.width;
}
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(cx, [scrollView bounds].size.height)];
Assuming that scrollView is a subview of view and fills it entirely you can use the following in viewDidLoad:
[scrollView setContentSize: CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
I had a UIScrollView that was not scrolling and this allowed it to scroll.
Just add code
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(WIDTH,HEIGHT);
to method -(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews.
For more information checkout Stanford CS193p Lecture No 8 to understand View Controller Life cycle.
I had the same issue and was looking for the answer in this thread. I tried all the stuff, but nothing works. Then I found this:
.
You just need to deselect "Use Auto Layout" in File Inspector of your ViewController. Ta-Da, it works immediately for me. Enjoy.

Build UITextview with Line

Does anyone idea about how can create UItextivew with Line like so user can easily write text in proper format.
please check this link
https://devforums.apple.com/message/217857#217857
is this possible, i have no idea about this.
Thanks you,
Easiest solution is -
NSInteger distanceBetweenLines = 50; // Distance between each line
NSInteger startMargin = 20; // For any starting margin for our first line
for (int i = 0; i < numberOfLines; i++) {
UIView *lineView = [[UIView alloc] init];
[lineView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, distanceBetweenLines * i + startMargin,
200, 1)];
[lineView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[self addSubview:lineView];
[lineView release];
}
This will create multiple UIView lines over your text view. The alternative and perhaps easier way (albeit less flexible) to do it is:
// linesImage is an image with a white background and black lines
UIImageView *linesImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"linesImage"]];
[linesImageView setFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];
[self addSubview:linesImageView];
[linesImageView release];
// Just need to maker sure the textview is added to the view after imageview is created to make sure it is on top... or just bring the textview forward in your subviews stack
textview.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; // So that lines image can be seen through the text view
Apologies if the code doesn't compile, as I haven't tested it in Xcode.
Cheers,
Raal
Dapp - the app design app

How to add a moving text in iPhone

I want to add some text which is a long text lets say a story and I want it to be presented in a moving up fashion. That is it will be displayed in a box and the text will be moved line by line to show the whole story. So one line gets out of the box from top and other comes from the bottom. Like a HTML marquee behavior.
You should look into whether or not UIScrollView's contentOffset property is animatable using UIView animation blocks.
If it's not, then you could try using an NSTimer and in its function, either set the contentOffset or call [scrollView scrollRectToVisible:desiredContentFrame animated:YES]; where desiredContentFrame.origin.y is just a little bit lower than what you previously had it at (depending on the scroll speed you want). Then play around with the firing frequency of your timer and the desiredContentFrame.origin.y's delta to see what looks best and has the best performance.
Here's a quick hack showing both ways:
- (void)startAnimTimer
{
currentRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1);
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.05 target:self selector:#selector(doScroll) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
}
- (void)startAnimUIView
{
[UIView beginAnimations:#"scrollUIViewAnim" context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:20.0];
[UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveLinear];
CGPoint newContentOffset = CGPointMake(0, scrollView.contentSize.height);
scrollView.contentOffset = newContentOffset;
[UIView commitAnimations];
}
- (void)loadView {
[super loadView];
self.scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5, 5, 200, 200)];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(200, 1000);
scrollView.backgroundColor = [UIColor magentaColor];
CGFloat y = 10;
CGFloat yDelta = 21;
for(int i = 0; i < 47; i++)
{
// Add some UILabels to the scrollview just so we can see it animating
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, y, 180, 20)];
label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"Cheezburger %d", i];
[scrollView addSubview:label];
[label release];
y += yDelta;
}
[self.view addSubview:scrollView];
// Comment out one of these
//[self startAnimTimer];
[self startAnimUIView];
}
- (void)doScroll
{
CGFloat scrollDelta = 1.0f;
CGRect newRect = CGRectMake(0, currentRect.origin.y + scrollDelta, currentRect.size.width, currentRect.size.height);
// Scroll the scrollview to the next position
[scrollView scrollRectToVisible:newRect animated:YES];
currentRect = newRect;
}
This method may help (or not):
- (void)scrollRectToVisible:(CGRect)rect animated:(BOOL)animated
If not, just make a big UILabel and animate its frame using a CABasicAnimation.
I think you want to look at the Scroll View (UIScrollView) in the iPhone SDK.
http://developer.apple.com/IPhone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIScrollView_Class/Reference/UIScrollView.html
Depending on your implementation, you may not be able to use it "out of the box" but it should provide the functionality you seem to be describing. I'm not sure it will do the auto-scroll thing but that should be pretty easy to implement... maybe.... But, I'm still confident it could be done.