Is there an open-source vertical side tab bar similar to the one in the '2Do' app?
I'm looking for something that looks like notebook tabs that control a detail view and can be moved around, be deleted or edited.
If you really want to get creative, but a UISegmentedControl in a view, then rotate the view 90degrees. For the text, you would draw into a tall narrow view one character after the other so the text goes down. create an image, and use that for each segment's image. Not sure how it would look, but you'd get all the logic in UISegmentedControl obviously for free.
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In the form pictured below, as you can see, all of the items are aligned to the right in portrait mode. However, in landscape mode, the text box and switch do not move to the right with the detail items. The detail cells use an apple template, while the ones with the text box and switch are custom cells. How do I set it up in interface builder so that the switch and text boxes move over to the right?
I've been messing with this for a while with no success and haven't found any useful information googling.
If you're using a custom cell, you need to set the autosizing mask to keep the right margin fixed on the views you want to align right, something like this:
I want to create an app that looks like a Rolodex Card wherein you'll have to scroll vertically in different views and when tapped, will go on full screen view with a close button to return to the previous view in a Rolodex-kind-of-menu. I want it to look similar to the PepperUI iOS control but instead of having it horizontally scroll, I want it scrolled vertically like in the picture below:
Any idea on how I can implement this kind of app? I'm thinking that this will only have Core Animations involved when scrolling the cards-like view controllers and zooming on a specific view when the user tapped any view in the cards.
Thanks for any input on this.
i would suggest this iCarousel by NickLockwood. Great Project. You can tweak it the way you want it, believe me. Make it vertical, and look up into its type cause it supports 11 types including like the one you want. Check it out!
Hope this helps.
I have designed a custom tabbar and the developer says the design I created can't be done.
The screen is made up of a usual background with a tabbar. I'd like my tabbar to look a little different to the usual iPhone style. I would like at the bottom of the tabbar a grass illustration (transparent) and on top would sit all the separate buttons and on top of those would be the icons. All of these images (as seen in link below) are separate .png files.
When the user scrolls the content, it will scroll under the transparent grass. The buttons of course will be clickable and have a different view for an active state.
Please see the link below to see a mock-up of the image:
http://www.stuartkidd.com/dummy.jpg
I'd appreciate if the community could explain to me if this could be done and if so, how. I thought it would have something to do with 'creating a custom tabbar'.
And a further question, if it can be done, can also the tab buttons be horizontally
scrollable with a swipe action?
Thanks,
It all can be done but you are going against the Iphone UI guidelines. You won't be able to leverage the UITabbarView to do what you want so you'll basically have to write the whole thing from scratch. Your tab bar would be a scroll view with a row of buttons representing each tab. When a button is clicked you load in the appropriate view. The UITabBar controller gives you a lot of functionality for free and I suspect once you start working towards this you'll see exactly how much extra work this will end up costing you. Going against the way Apple does things can be a slippery slope.
Another idea might be to keep a hidden UITabBar to manage the tabs and call it from your custom tab bar. This would free you from a lot of the hassle of swapping views/controllers in and out.
You can create a row of custom buttons and have 2 subviews. One for the bottom navigation bar and one for the content view where you will be swapping your content based on what is pressed.
You can have a state which maintains what was clicked. Based on that you can set the button enabled state for every button in your bottom bar.
button.selected = YES
It will be easy to handle the touch up inside events and properly load appropriate views in and out of the bigger subview as they will be part of the same view controller.
I have implemented a similar functionality and it works well but still in process of submitting it to the app-store.
I am working on an app which displays user information on the home view. Its a regular tab bar application, which brings up the home view on load. I need to display something like,
Hello Joe,
Your current points are : xxx
I would like this to be in a white curved background box. (The background for the view is blue). Is there something like a UIPanel or something like that. I would really like to avoid having another view or a webView, not sure if thats going to affect the speed of loading the page.
If there were a UIPanel control it would derive from UIView, so I'm not sure why you want to avoid another view. If I'm understanding you, it sounds like you want a custom alert window of some sort. You could just use the UIAlertView control to display your message, but if you are dead set on a custom look, then you will need to use a view.
This shouldn't affect performance noticeably if you are just displaying some text with maybe a button on a custom image. Especially if this is just a tab bar application with nothing too crazy happening in the background (animations, etc.).
I would suggest creating a View either in code (this will be slightly faster, but once again probably not noticeably so) or with Interface Builder that has a black background with an opacity of like .2-.5 and on that view adding a UIImageView set to your custom image (a png of a white curved box with transparent corners). Then put a UILabel with your text and a button to dismiss it.
On load just instantiate the above view and add it to your current view. It will show your message modally. Then capture the button tap event to have it remove itself from it's superview.
There are plenty of examples of how to do exactly this out there and there are even other ways of doing it than what I've suggested. If you need further assistance let me know.
I'm looking for a clean way to implement a login screen in my iPhone application. I'd like it to appear as a grouped UITableView section with rounded corners and a separator line below between rows (like e.g. the sections in the Settings app). However, I'd like to give it a slightly smaller cornerRadius than the default setting of a UITableView section.
Another thing I'd like to do in that screen is to add a "register as new user" button which causes the whole screen to slide up, presenting the registration screen. There will be a background image that spans both screens vertically and should slide up with together with the content.
I was first thinking to just make a UITableView, set it to grouped, add two sections (one for login and one for registration), add some space between them and disable manual scrolling on the UITableView. However, I found that putting a background image correctly behind a UITableView and to make that scroll together with its content is a bit tricky..
Perhaps I shouldn't be using a UITableView and just write some code myself that can wrap multiple views (each containing a label and a textfield) together into something that appears like a UITableView section? I've been searching around but surprisingly it appears that not too many others are trying to solve this same problem.
Any suggestions would be very welcome!
Sounds like a UITableView is overkill for what you need. I would just create a custom UIViewController and have it handle the layout of all of your subviews as well as any animation you desire.
Just have the parent view take up more space than the device's screen. Then, when you want everything to slide up, animate a change to that view's frame property.