UIImageView in ModalViewController is Ignoring ContentMode - iPhone - iphone

I am presenting a modal view with a UIImageView set to content mode fill scale (via the xib). I am setting a UIImage in the modal view class with a thumbnail from the parent class :
NSURL * finishedMovie = [self applicationDocumentsDirectory:#"FinishedVideo.mov"];
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:finishedMovie];
UIImage *thumbnail = [player thumbnailImageAtTime:1.0 timeOption:MPMovieTimeOptionNearestKeyFrame];
previewScreen = [[PreviewScreenViewController alloc]initWithNibName:#"PreviewScreenViewController" bundle:nil];
previewScreen.thumbnailImage = thumbnail;
[self presentModalViewController:previewScreen animated:YES];
Then in the modal view class itself :
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
previewImageBox.image = thumbnailImage;
}
The problem is that when the view appears, it seems to be ignoring the content mode set in the xib and just inserting the image at full size.
This seems like a bug, as when I return to this view the image fits in the UIImage view properly.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks.

OK solved it ! If you manually create the UIImageView in code, it seems to work.
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
//Work around to solve bug in UIToolkit where aspect ratio is ignored when view loads.
imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(13, 87, 294, 164)];
//Set the image to our thumbnail.
[self.view addSubview:imageView];

More than likely you have the clipsToBounds property set to NO. This will prevent the UIImageView from clipping content outside of its rect. You can set the borderColor of the UIImageView layer to see if this is actually happening.

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How to dynamically add a UIImageView to a view and position items?

I have an app where it reads an XML document containing 2 fields (image url and description). If the document has a field that has a valid image URL, I want the view to show the image. Else I just want it to show the description.
The problem I am having is :
how to show the UIImageView dynamically
how to move the UITextView downwards since now I added a UIImageView
Currently I just have a View with a UITextView on it.
Any ideas?
1) -[UIView setHidden:] if the UIImageView is already in place. Otherwise, [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:], then add the image view as a subview to the view.
2) -[UIView setFrame:] (is one option)
The following is what you could do.
Prepare the the view with the UIImageView and the UITextView in the viewDidLoad like this:
-(void) viewDidLoad)
{
[super viewDidLoad];
myImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
myImageView.frame = CGRectMake(x,y,0,0); //you can set it at the right position and even set either the width OR the height depending on where you want the textView in my example I'm gonna assume its beneath the imageView
//other imageView settings
[myView addSubView:myImageView];
myTextView = [[myTextView alloc] init];
myTextView.frame = CGRectMake(x,y,width,heigh+CGRectGetMaxY(myImageView.frame)); //here you prepare the textView for the imageView and the space it takes. But doesn't get hindered by it if it's not there.
//other textView settings.
[myView addSubView:myTextView];
//You would want this loading function about here OR after this loading has been occured.
[self loadImageFromURL];
}
-(void)loadImageFromURL
{
//get your image here.. or not
if(imageHasLoaded) //some condition that gets set when your image has successfully loaded. (This should be done in a delegate (didLoadImageFromURL) if you have such thing prepared.
{
//myImageView.image = theLoadedImage;
myImageView.frame = CGRectMake(x,y,theLoadedImageWidth,theLoadedImageHeight);
//after you set the frame of the imageView you need to refresh the view
[myView setNeedsDisplay];
}
}
And this is how you should dynamically add an imageView with image and frame to some view.

cameraOverlayView problem on iOS 4.3

I'm using an picker Controller with a cameraOverlayView to display an image of a product in the camera view. The product image is resized before applying on the overlay.
It works fine on iOS 4.2 but on iOS 4.3 the product image is displayed full size.
pickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
UIImageView *imgView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:produitAffiche.img_realite]] autorelease];
// Resize
if(imgView.frame.size.height == 480)
{
//Portrait
imgView.frame = CGRectMake(80.0f, 120.0f, 160.0f, 240.0f);
}
else
{
// Landscape
imgView.frame = CGRectMake(40.0f, 160.0f, 240.0f, 160.0f);
}
imgView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeCenter;
imgView.clipsToBounds = NO;
imgView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit;
pickerController.cameraOverlayView = (UIView *) imgView;
I changed the frame of the UIImageView I use as overlay but it's still displayed at 320*480.
I know that the cameraOverlayView have been modified in iOS 4.3 but I don't know what has changed and what I have to do to correct my application.
Thanks for your help.
In iOS 4.3 the overlay view is stretched to full screen. Because you set the content mode to aspect fit, the image is stretched to fit the new view size which is 320x480.
You need to make a transparent UIView that is fullscreen, add the imageview to that view and make the UIView the new overlay view.
UIView *fullscreenView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
fullscreenView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
....
[fullscreenView addSubview:imgView];
pickerController.cameraOverlayView = fullscreenView;
Found this article that seems to fit the bill. The long and short of it is to use
- (UIImage *)
resizedImageWithContentMode:(UIViewContentMode)contentMode
bounds:(CGSize)bounds
interpolationQuality:(CGInterpolationQuality)quality;
Comment out this line in your code
imgView.clipsToBounds = NO;
It should work.
If you really want to clip, #slf 's answer should help.
try setting these properties of UIImagePicker:
mImagePickerController.showsCameraControls = NO;
mImagePickerController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
mImagePickerController.toolbarHidden = YES;
mImagePickerController.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES;
My problem was actually that a UIImagePicker displayed full-screen on iOS5 did not work on iOS4.3, on an iPad. I was starting the image picker up offscreen, then animating it into view... You would see the shutter image open up, but then the camera view itself was simply transparent with no camera output.
My solution was to not animate that in for iOS4.3 on the iPad. It seems that having the camera view started offscreen was leaving the camera rendering part behind (fixed as I noted in iOS5).
This answer is not quite right for the original question but I place it here for someone that comes into the same issue and hits this question as I did.

UIImageView showing the image only after changing tabs in the UITabBarViewController

I have a UIScrollViewController that has a UIScrollView which holds an UIImageView inside.
In loadView of the the scroll view controller I download the image by calling a function, that's supposed to do the downloading on a different thread. I call this function from my loadView and then put the imageview inside the scrollview, and set the scrollview as the view of the controller.
The problem is I can't see the image when I run the program, after clicking a row in the tableView (which is supposed to push the scrollview with the image in it). However, if I change tabss (in the tabbarviewcontroller) and come back to this tab. The image will show.
So I think the image download happens, but I somehow have a problem showing it instantly on the screen. It only appears after I come back to it. What do I seem to be doing wrong? I'm new to threads so I suspect it's a problem with that. Also my code was working before I made it so that it would do the download in another thread, so I'm pretty sure it is related to that.
This is the function in the Photo.m which is an Entity in Core Data. This is supposed to do the download
- (void)processImageDataWithBlock:(void (^)(NSData *imageData))processImage {
NSString *url = self.imageURL;
dispatch_queue_t callerQueue = dispatch_get_current_queue();
dispatch_queue_t downloadQueue = dispatch_queue_create("Flickr download", NULL);
dispatch_async(downloadQueue, ^{
NSData *imageData = [FlickrFetcher imageDataForPhotoWithURLString:url];
dispatch_async(callerQueue, ^{
processImage(imageData);
});
});
}
This is my loadView method in the PhotoScrollViewController.m
- (void)loadView {
[image processImageDataWithBlock:^(NSData *imageData) {
UIImage *imageToBeShown = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:imageToBeShown];
CGRect applicationFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:applicationFrame];
scrollView.delegate = self;
scrollView.contentSize = imageToBeShown.size;
[scrollView addSubview:imageView];
self.title = image.title;
self.view = scrollView;
}];
}
Edited to add extra information that was added as an answer
Adding [super loadView] to my loadView method solved the issue. However, the documentation says that I shouldn't be calling super loadView from my loadView.
I tried moving the code to viewDidLoad and that works as well. But really this is the code that's setting the view so I feel like I should be putting it in loadView. But then it doesn't work when I use this multi threading mechanism for download.
Is this because the download is somehow interfering with me setting the view in loadView?
It seems loadView completes before the image download is done. You need some way of calling [imageView setNeedsDisplay] when image download is complete. You need some method that gets called when image download is done that accesses the imageView (perhaps using viewWithTag) from the scrollView and calls [imageView setNeedsDisplay];

ImageView Scrolling along with the tableview

In my application,i created an imageview on the above the tabbar.I want to display some images here for displaying some adds there.
What my actual problem is...i added this on my table view and whenever i am scrolling the table view ,my imageview is also scrolling.Please help me in this
Thanks in advance.Here is my code
UIImageView *currentLocationImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
NSURL *url1 = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://imgsrv.995themountain.com/image/kqmt2/UserFiles/Image/SiteGraphics/MTNVideos360x80.jpg"];
UIImage *img1 = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url1]];
NSURL *url2 = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://download.xbox.com/content/images/35f6c527-fb73-40d3-bcb9-bdea2680bc03/1033/banner.png"];
UIImage *img2 = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url2]];
NSArray *images = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:img1, img2, nil];
[currentLocationImageView setAnimationImages:images];
[currentLocationImageView setAnimationRepeatCount:0];
[currentLocationImageView setAnimationDuration:5.0];
currentLocationImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 340.0, 320.0, 30.0);
//self.tableView.tableFooterView = currentLocationImageView;
[currentLocationImageView startAnimating];
[self.view addSubview:currentLocationImageView];
Without seeing more code, it looks as though you may be using a UITableViewController instead of a UIViewController. The difference between the two is important in the case of your last line [self.view addSubview:currentLocationImageView]. What that does in a UIViewController is adds it to the view that would be containing the tableview and the imageview. However, in a UITableViewController the self.view property holds the tableview itself, therefor, it ads your image view as a subview of the tableview, subjecting it to the tableview's scrolling behaviour.
What you can do is change from using a UITableViewController (probably going to be trivial for your application, but may be less than trivial depending on why you opted to use it in the first place); and you'll also need to explicitly create the tableview, and add it to the backing view of the UIViewController subclass you're writing—akin to how you're adding the imageview above.
Hope this helps.

UIImageView subclass does not display

I am using a custom subclass of UIImageView, but I can't figure out why it's not being displayed.
The relevant code from my UIImageView subclass:
-(id) initWithImage:(UIImage*)image{
if(self = [super initWithImage:image]){
}
return self;
}
And from the view controller for the view that will be displaying my subclass:
UIImage *zoomRatateSliderHorizontal =
[[UIImage imageNamed:#"ZoomRotate Slider Horizontal.png"]
stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:(75.0)/2-1.0 topCapHeight:0];
scaleHorizontalControl = [[ViewTransformationController alloc]
initWithImage:zoomRatateSliderHorizontal];
scaleHorizontalControl.onScreenFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 5.0,
self.view.frame.size.width,
scaleHorizontalControl.image.size.height);
scaleHorizontalControl.frame = scaleHorizontalControl.onScreenFrame;
scaleHorizontalControl.offScreenFrame = CGRectZero;
[self.view addSubview:scaleHorizontalControl];
Before I was subclassing, I had no trouble with the following in the view controller:
UIImage *zoomRatateSliderVertical =
[[UIImage imageNamed:#"ZoomRotate Slider Vertical.png"]
stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0 topCapHeight:(75.0)/2-1.0];
scaleOrRatateViewVertical = [[UIImageView alloc]
initWithImage:zoomRatateSliderVertical];
scaleOrRatateViewVertical.frame = CGRectMake(-zoomRatateSliderVertical.size.width,
zoomRatateSliderHorizontal.size.height+5.0+5.0,
zoomRatateSliderVertical.size.width,
465.0 - zoomRatateSliderHorizontal.size.height-10.0-5.0);
[self.view addSubview:scaleOrRatateViewVertical];
Using break points I checked the frame and image being passe to my class, and they both appear to be valid and desired.
Any advice on what I'm doing wrong I'd greatly appreciate.
The Apple Docs read:
The UIImageView class is optimized to draw its images to the display. UIImageView will not call drawRect: a subclass. If your subclass needs custom drawing code, it is recommended you use UIView as the base class.
So I'd subclass UIView and work from there.