Navigation Controller and UITableView Orientation issue - iphone

I found a strange behavior with a UITableView when a decide to make my App compatible with landscape orientation.
I have two UITableView respectively linked to UITableViewControllers and some data.
I created a Navigation Controller linked to the first TVC and I added a segue between TVCs
I run the simulator, the first tableview appears.
I switch to Landscape mode and click on a row to view the second tableview.
I go back to Portrait Mode, and I click on the back button.
And When the first tableview re-appears, there is a strange horizontal scrolling on the bottom and I can move the tableview. It seems that the first tableview still believe to be in Landscape Mode :
I tried some changes in viewWillAppear with no results...
Does anyone have encountered this problem ?

Sometimes it could happend if you have a UIScrollview at the back of the UITableview. It is related to the rotation and the autolayout of the view. Check if you are setting the frame of the tableview or something like.

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Subview behaves strangely in navigation-based app

I'm currently developing an app for iphone (my first) and I used several UITableViewController for navigation.
I then used a subview attached to self.view.superview to get a non-scroll image at the top.
The subview is created in IB, simple UIView with an UIImageView in it.
I'm adding the subview in viewDidAppear and this functions well.
But as soon as I'm tapping a cell and the navigationController pushes the next View animated, the previous view (scrolling out of sight) becomes completely white and my subview moves animated to the center. It's only for a half second or so, because then it's gone due to the next view arriving, but it's really unnerving.
I tried removing the subview in viewWillDisappear, that removes the UIImageView, but the screen still becomes completely white.
Does anybody how to fix this?
Oh, and PS: I'm working only on the Simulator, because I have no Developer Account yet. And I cannot change everything to a ViewController because I have a deadline to meet.
You shouldn't be surprised that things go wrong when you mess with the views of view controllers that don't belong to you. Rather than using a table view controller, you should replace it with a custom UIViewController whose view acts as a container view for both the table view and the non-scrolling view above it.

problem in tabBar Controller with more than five tabBar items

I am facing few problems while using tabBar with navigation controllers.Each tabBar item is associated with a separate navigation controller.Problems are listed as follows:
1.There are more than five tabBar items in my tabBar so a more tabBar item comes by default.Now when i tap the more tabBar item the remaining items come in a tableview which is actually the view of a navigation controller(which comes by default).Now when i select any of the row, my new view controller gets pushed into that navigation controller.I want my view controller to be the navigation controller.So there is a situation like pushing a navigation controller onto the sack of another navigation controller.The compiler gets confused and it does nothing.
2.Although I have set autoresizing of each controller of tab bar controller nothing happens on rotating the device.However when I keep only five or less tabBar items,autoresizing works perfectly.
3.I want an ImagView at the top throughout the application, so I attached an imageview on the window itself and than increases the y-coordinate of the tabBar controller's view so that the navigation bar of each tabBar controller's view starts just below the imageview.Everything is fine for the portrait mode but as soon as i rotate the device the imageview dissappears.And when i again come to portrait mode the imageview does not appear and the tabBar controller's view starts from the top.
I tried it every ways(like tabBar instead of tabBar controller etc.) but fail to achieve anything helpful.
I've never heard of that problem before. Can you paste some code? Also, are you sure that the tabs on the view more page work correctly?
In order for a TBC to rotate, all of the root view controllers of each tab must support rotation. In each of those files make sure shouldRotateToInterfaceOrientation: returns YES for all orientations (if you're using the default iPhone VC template take out the if(interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) statement and associated brackets).
I've actually done this before, and trust me when I say you're opening up a can of worms. To achieve this you need to add the TBC as a subview of a view that has an imageview on top. You must manually set the TBC.view frame to not cover up the top image. The best way to do this is: in the .xib for the container file, add an image view up top, and under it another view. Connect the view to the code via an IBOutlet, and set that frame as the TBC.view.frame. Then add the TBC.view as a subview programmatically.
With this solution, however, you must add in a willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:duration: method that calls the same function in all the TBC's viewcontrollers, and all of those viewcontrollers must be navigation delegates that call viewWillAppear: and viewDisappear: manually. The rotation is also a bit "sticky" when you do this, so beware.
My suggestion: don't put a static image up top. It causes a lot of issues, and takes up a lot of screen real estate, especially on the iPhone's smaller screen. Look at The Weather Channel app if you want to see how bad it looks.
Let me know if you have any more questions!

Why isn't my UITableView appearing in the correct scroll position?

I have a split view-based app that presents a master-detail interface, and uses a popover to present the master list when in portrait mode. The popover presents a sectioned table view that ultimately gets populated by a subclass of NSFetchedResultsController. I can tap the tool bar button to present the master list, scroll to whatever row, and tap the row to dismiss the popover.
My problem is that if the table is scrolled past the top of the second section, when I dismiss the popover and then later tap the toolbar button to re-present it, the table's scroll position is always set such that the first row of the second section is at the top of the list. If I haven't scrolled past the top of the second section, it correctly remembers its scroll position when the table is presented again.
Similarly, in landscape mode, if I scroll the table past the top of the third section and then rotate to portrait, when I come back to landscape the scroll position is always set such that the first row of the third section is at the top of the list.
I tried calling -scrollToNearestSelectedRowAtScrollPosition:animated in both the master view controller's -viewWillAppear, as well as in the split view delegate's splitViewController:popoverController:willPresentViewController:, to no effect. Anybody have a clue what I might be doing wrong?
Did you try storing tableView.contentOffset?
CGPoint offset = tableView.contentOffset;
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...
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[tableView setContentOffset: offset];

selectively allowing autorotation in TabBar / UINavigation app

I have a UITabBar/UINavigation application and I'm having some trouble allowing autorotation in a given view.
The TabBar allows changing sections, with table view items. When one of the items is tapped, I push a new view which hides the TabBar and which should autorotate. I tried the easy way, which seemed most logical to me: disable autorotate in the rootViewController and allow in the detailViewController, but this didn't work (shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation returns YES, but then willRotateToInterfaceOrientation is never called and view doesn't autorotate). I read that all VCs in a TabBar should return YES to shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation, so I did that, but the result is that now my whole application rotates.
I then subclassed my UINavigationController and set shouldAutorotate to NO, hoping that I could detect when the view that was being shown was in fact a detailView, and then return YES... I can't seem to do that.
Any help out there?
Thanks!
Antonio
It sounds like you've got a set up like the iPod app which has a tabbar for playlist view, songs view etc but which disappears when you go to a detail view for a song. The detail view can rotate but the tabbar views do not. When you do rotate the tabbar it turns into a cover flow detail view.
I'm pretty sure they do this by putting the tabbar inside a navigation controller. When you go to the detail view, it pops the tabbar entirely and pushes the detail view.
So the actual hierarchy looks something like:
Nav {
tabbar {
playlist
Artist
//... other tabs
}
detail view portrait
detail view cover flow
}
Only one of the sibling views (tabbar, detail portrait, detail coverflow) is pushed at any one time.
The iPod app does this because the detail view is the primary functional view for the entire app so the rest of the app is built around navigating to it. If that is not the case for your app, then this setup may be more trouble than it is worth.

Contents of UIScrollView shifted after dismissing ModalViewController

I have a paged scrollview. Each page has a viewcontroller (buttonViewController) that manages a grid of buttons. If you press one of the buttons, the buttonViewController pops up another viewcontroller (detailViewController) modally.
The problem is, when I dismiss the modal view controller, the visible buttonViewController is shifted down by what looks like about 20 pixels. The weird thing is that only the visible page is shifted. If I scroll over to another page that is already loaded, it is still in the correct position.
My question is basically the same as dismissing modalViewController moves main view buttons around iphone
However, the accepted answer to that question assumed that the status bar is hidden. I am not hiding the status bar in my application.
Any other ideas?
One more note: The shift only happens the first time I launch a modal view controller. If I keep opening and closing the modal view controller, everything stays the same.
One further note: if I add the following code:
CGRect frame = self.view.frame;
frame.origin.y=0;
self.view.frame = frame;
after I dismiss the modal view controller, then I can work around the problem. The frame seems to move by 20pixels in y. I still don't know what's causing the move though.
Well I had this problem and it was due to the way my first viewController was set up (on the UIWindow), it is very weird since this had never happened to me before, the behavior I was observing was that when you add a subview at point (0,0) it would overlap with the status bar, which is not usual, usually the views know about the status bar and they behave appropriately. As a side effect, when one pushes a modal view that takes off the status bar, after dismissing it I saw the same problem you are seeing. What I did to fix was to set the UIWindows view to my controllers view in the nib, this seemed to fix everything. Once again I don't know why simply adding to the window programmatically with CGRectMake(0,0,320,460) had this odd behavior, since I have been doing this for all my previous projects and saw the correct behavior. But when I set it up in the nib, it worked as expected. Maybe this is your problem as well.
Turns out this was related to:
ModalViewController doesn't display during animation when paged scrollView is scrolled
I had mismatched the heights of some of my viewcontrollers, and that was throwing everything off.
Some of the views had heights of 460pixels, some had 480pixels. For some reason, this made it shift by 20pixels evertime a modal view controller disappeared. Once I made everything 460pixels, everything worked great.