How to interact with UIView behind UIScrollView - iphone

I was trying to replicate something similar to the new Path app in the fact that the UIScrollview houses the main content view, and when it scrolls over it shows the menus. My current implementation is I have the menu behind the scroll view and I have a transparent UIView covering where the menu is in the scroll view. That way when the scroll view swipes over you can fully see the menu. Problem is, you can;t interact behind the UIScrollview.
Does anyone know how to replicate the path type of functionality or be able to interact behind a UIScrollView?
Thanks a lot for the help.

For anyone else that is trying to accomplish this i solved it by implementing the didenddecelerating method and trimming the frame down to not cover the page UIView.
Then whenever the user begins to interact with the part of the main scrollview view the frame resizes again

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UIScrollView stopping my UIGesture from doing view transition

So I am working on this project here, to test some things that I am interested about, such as view transitions using UIGestures.
I am currently testing how view transitions behave when they have things like UIWebViews and UIScrollViews in them. What I have found out currently is that if you have a UIScrollView bigger than the view frame then the transition (using gestures) is blocked if you are using a UIGesture to change the view. (Such as swipe left or right)
I was wondering if there is a way around this or a solution that I don't know about..
Try using
gestureRecognizer:shouldRecognizeSimultaneouslyWithGestureRecognizer:
return no for it and see if that works.

UIScrollView always bounce upwards and does not show scroll bar in iphone

This is probably simple but I do not seem to get it to work. I have a view and inside it I have a scroll view and inside it I have a view with some labels and a button. the height of the text inside the labels changes according to some condition so I need to scroll down to see it. But whenever I try to scroll down it bounce back up without giving me a chance to view the rest of the view.
Basically, I want when I scroll down, the view to remain down as it normally should. Besides I do not see the scroll bar at all when I'm scrolling.
I know I probably do not understand how scroll views work, so I'd appreciate any help to explain to me the behavior of scroll views.
P.S. I built my whole view in a nib file and this specific setup That I mentioned at the beginning is based on a suggestion from one question I read here.
Thanks, Mohsen
you need to set content size of your scroll view
[scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(360,1000)];
you can make the content size dynamic as per your calculation.

What is the correct way to show/hide a UIScrollView?

I have an iPhone application that uses a UIScrollView to display a larger version of an image on the main screen. I am using IB to create the main screen that has text, small images, and price about a product. I have it setup to show/hide the UIScrollView if the user touches the small images. It works ok, but things are pretty messing in the IB layout. I have to put the UIScrollView over top of everything else and make it hidden by default. What I'd like to know is if there is a better way to accomplish this. Can I create a new nib and load the scroll view in it and load that nib when the users touches the small image? Should I construct the scroll view in my code and not use IB? Any input is appreciated!
Sorry if this is a newb question. I'm still learning.
Set scrollView.hidden = YES and then when tapped, set it to NO.

UIScrollView vs. UITableView

For a vertical scroller are there any advantages to using UIScrollView over UITableView?
I ask because I am currently using two vertical UIScrollViews with UIImageViews inside of them and am having memory issues and poor scrolling performance. I am not doing much with the scrollers, only highlighting images as they scroll into the center of the scrollviews and adding a delete button above an image if the user wants to remove it. I've started to look at lazy image loading/reuse and it seems that most of these issues have already been resolved in the UITableView class, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to stick with UIScrollView?
You should be able to use a UIScrolLView with no problem if you just, like you said, lazy load the controllers, when scrolling (assuming your views are full size) you dont need to have more than 3 views loaded at any one time, all you need is the current view, the view that goes behind it and infront of it, as you scroll your view you can unload and load the appropriate views. You should look into Page Control sample application, it does exactly this and you can pretty much get all the lazy loading code from there. Link is here https://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/PageControl/index.html

iPhone SDK view scrolling not rubber banding or using momentum from swipes

I'm having a fundamental problem with getting scrolling to work normally on my iPhone app. I have two views, each created in IB (although I've tried this programmatically and it makes no difference) which scroll very sloppily. Instead of the scrolling that we're used to (which is smooth and continues to scroll and eventually dampen and rubber band at the top/bottom), my scrolling only scrolls as long as my finger is in contact with the view. Swiping down quickly on a view has no more effect than swiping slowly. And when you scroll beyond the top or bottom, the view just stays there scrolled with empty area above/below.
One of my views is a UITableView and the other is a UIScrollView. Both have exactly the same problem and are in different XIBs, coupled to different classes, so this is why I think I'm missing a key concept in general.
My UITableView is a child to a UIView (since there is also a nav bar at the top) with my UIViewController's view connected to the UIView. The referencing outlets datasource and delegate are both hooked to the UITableView. Nothing is subclassed here aside from the ViewController of course which has overrides to populate the table.
In the second instance, I again have a non-subclassed UIView which my UIViewController's view is connected to. I have a subclassed UIScrollView as a child to the UIView and then a have a subclassed UIView (with larger size than the scroll view) as a child to the subclassed UIScrollView. This in itself seems ridiculously complicated to me, but I was not able to get scrolling working at all with fewer than 3 views (again there is a nav bar at the top of the non-subclassed UI-View). I am overriding drawRect: in my UIScrollView, which is putting the content up fine except for this scrolling issue.
Is there something I'm doing wrong organizationally? I've come across many suggestions on stackoverflow and other sites for UIScrollView and none make a difference. And I don't see anyone having scrolling issues with UITableView. I'm not pasting in any code because I would have to post full classes at this point (making the post ridiculously long) and I believe the problems to really lie with the way I'm using IB.
Thanks!!
OK, it turns out that this has nothing to do with UIKit. This code is part of a game I'm developing using cocos2d and that framework is what is causing the problem. For those who are developing on cocos2d, you cannot use FastDirector and expect scrolling to work in UIViews. Just remove any code like [[Director sharedDirector] useFastDirector] and everything will be fine.
Some code might help narrow down your problem.
In the mean time, try creating a new project in Xcode using the 'Navigation-based Application' template and take a look at how the navigation controller is being created in MainWindow.xib. Take a look at how the UITableViewController subclass called 'RootViewController' is defined and how the corresponding xib is setup too. You'll notice there is no UIScrollView explicitly defined anywhere but you get scrolling functionality from the tableview controller 'for free'.
This should give you a pretty good starting point down the right path. I question the need for overriding drawRect: without seeing some code or fully understanding your goal.
Take a look at:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIScrollView_Class/Reference/UIScrollView.html
http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/UsingNavigationControllers/UsingNavigationControllers.html