I have two UIViews, both of which obviously have CGRects each. One UIView fills the screen whereas the other just fills part of it in the middle. I have the CGRect of the smaller UIView, but how can I get the CGRect of the one outside of it - excluding the size of the smaller one so that the background can be dimmed, but not the content of the inner UIView?
This is what my UIViewController looks like so you can get a better idea of what I'm trying to do:
I want to dim the outer UIView, not the inner one - but I don't have the CGRect of the outer one excluding the inner UIView so I've had to do it the other way around for now.
A CGRect is a square size. If you want to know the outer aria you need to compute 4 CGRects. The top, left, right and bottom space.
So, it looks to me like the outer view is responsible for drawing your content and the inner view is your selection rectangle right?
If so, then I think you are going to want to draw your content twice when you have this selection mode active. You will:
draw one pass dimmed - adjust the colors yourself (you can either draw the whole area or clip away the inner area using code from here)
draw the second inner pass with a clip rect setup so only your content inside the rect for your selection rectangle is drawn
Or
draw all your content like normal
set your clipping mask (using code from here so that just the outer area is rendered) and then draw a black rect with some degree of transparency over your whole scene
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I have set Image Type to Filled because I want to reduce the size of my filling area.
On the left side, you can see my progress bar within the attached image.
Within the inspector, you can clearly see I have set Fill Origin from Top so image size gets reduced from the bottom.
Now one twist I want, I want to reduce an image from both sides top and bottom, I have already played with Image component different values but I can't able to get success.
Overall I want to reduce the size of the image from the top and bottom.
There are 2 ways you can achieve this effect:
You can instead change the Y scale of the image, whilst the Y pivot is 0.5 this will make it shrink from top to bottom, but this will only work if the sprite looks the same even if shrunk down.
If your sprite's shape won't allow for changing the scale like that, you could also split it into 2 sprites at the midpoint and put them next to each other, and then have the top side fill from bottom, and the bottom side fill from top.
I want to call the action (go to another view) when user tap specific area of image (black dots): . Image fills whole view, content mode is 'Aspect Fit'. The problem is that when I setup it on one screen size (e.g. iPhone 8) on another the 'tap area' is shifted. I've tried to solve this with button and constraints or UITapGestureRecognizer with point conversion using screen resolution (nativeBounds), but nothing helps.
It is possible to use constraints to match the positions of the circles with UIButtons. The trick is to use the multiplier of the constraint to scale the buttons width/height and position to the screen size.
I'll describe how to do it for one button, and then you can repeat it for the others. I assume the image is 657 wide by 918 high. If I have the dimensions reversed, you'll need to substitute the actual values for the ones I have used.
Create a UIView to hold the image and buttons. Give this view an aspect ratio constraint with multiplier 657:918 which is width:height. Add the UIImageView to this view and constrain its 4 edges to the edges of the view with 0 offsets. Give this view constraints to the left and right edges of the main view and give it a vertical constraint to place it on the screen.
Get the width/height of the circle in the image and the horizontal and vertical positions of the right edge and bottom edge. For example, the topmost circle is 106 x 106 and ends at horizontal position 392 and the bottom is at 338.
Set the width of the button equal to the width of the containing view with multiplier 106:657 which is width of circle:width of the image.
Set the height of the button equal to the height of the containing view with multiplier 106:918 which is height of circle:height of the image.
Set the trailing edge of the button equal to the trailing edge of the containing view with multiplier 392:657 which is end of circle:width of image.
Set the bottom edge of the button equal to the bottom edge of the containing view with multiplier 338:918 which is bottom of circle:height of the image.
This will allow the button to stay aligned with the circle on all devices. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for the other circles.
Instead of using an image, you can try creating your own UIView subclass called BlackDotsView.
In the draw(_rect:) method, you can draw the lines. To determine where the lines start and end, you need to do some maths with the view's width and height. You calculate where all the lines end and create UIBezierPaths and then you stroke the paths.
In the initializer of BlackDotsView, you can add the dots as subviews. To make them circular, just set dotView.layer.cornerRadius to half the dot's width. Then, you can add UITapGestureRecognizers to the dot views.
You can follow the delegate pattern by creating a BlackDotsViewDelegate that has a method called dotTapped(index:). When a dot is tapped, you would call the delegate method and pass the index of the dot.
I've got a panel which sits above my canvas and slides out upon clicking a button. I want to populate this panel with several objects (the number will be determined at runtime). Since the number of objects can exceed the number that would reasonably fit on a single row of the panel, I'd like to be able to scroll down with the mouse to new rows where the remaining objects have been populated.
To achieve this I've put a Scroll Rect and a Mask on the panel, created a child Image with a Vertical Layout Group to hold a series of child panels representing the rows that would hold the objects, and set the Image as the Content of the Scroll Rect.
The issue is that when I try to make one of the row panels a child of the Image object by dragging it to the Image in the Hierarchy, the anchors for the panel coalesce to a single point (the top left of the Image since it is set to Upper Left alignment) and when I try to manually drag the anchors to the appropriate position a box with a red X in it appears and expands in a manner that doesn't seem to correspond to the direction of the mouse.
Is this the right approach, and if so, how can I get this to work?
Thanks!
I have a circle (UIImage) divided into four sections (triangles).
Also I know tree points of the sections, center, upper left and upper right.
How can i calculate which sections is touched with UITapGestureRecognizer?
If you have a CGPathRef of each of your shapes, you can call CGPathContainsPoint with the value returned by your gesture recognizer’s -locationInView: on each of the paths until you find the one you tapped.
Alternatively, you can split the image into four separate images and set them as the images of four separate buttons with their own target/action handlers.
I have an UIView that can grow dynamically in width. The view also have subviews located inside it's bounds.
Default behavior seems to be that when the view's frame grows along the x axis, increasing frame.size.width, it always grows at the right edge, keeping the subviews fixed as if there were a fix left margin. However, when I want to expand the view on the left edge this doesn't work because of this behavior. In this case I want it to behave in a mirrored way, as if there were a fix right margin. I could of course "manually" move all subviews so it looks like that is the case, but that seems really awkward since there could be plenty of them.
So I guess the question really is if there is a way to shift a views bounds relative to it's subviews? Is maybe autoresizingMask the way to do this?
Thanks.
Maybe you should take a look at the AutoresizingMask property of a UIView subclass :-)
For example, if you have a UILabel called labelVideoTitle, you could set a mask like this :
[ labelVideoTitle setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth ];
You can by the way add 2 mask at once like :
[ labelVideoTitle setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight ];
Good Luck !
Edit : To increase the parent view frame size at the left edge, you could change too its X position to the left to give the impression wanted ^^ For example if you add 10 pt to the width, try modifying the X origin -10 pt :-)
In interface builder, you can graphically indicate in the CMD-3 (little ruler icon) Size Inspector what each element in your view should do when the parent view is resized: you can indicate which borders (top, left, right, bottom), the given element should "stick to" when the parent view is resized. You can also indicate whether the given element should itself resize (in either width or height) or stay the same size. Underneath the hood, this sets the autoresize mask for the UIView element you're editing, but especially for making an element stick to a particular border, Interface Builder is the way to go.
IB Size Inspector also has a neat little animation that shows you the effect on a hypothetical element (little red square) during a resize, given your settings to the left.