TableView,label and Textfield on ScrollView - iphone

In my app I need to do something like this:
First of all I have a tableview that contains 3 section (2 of them with 3 rows). Below this tableView I have to put a label,and below the label a textfield.
I tried to do this on xib file. I put a scrollView, and on this scrollView I put the tableview,the label and textfield. The problem is the view is not enough for all of them.
First of all,I want to see the tableview on screen and after I scroll the screen to see the label and textfield . I don't know how can I explain this...I mean that when app starts to see only the tableview on screen and after scroll to appear the label and textfield. Is it possible what I'm trying to do?

You have added those views (Tableview, label, textfield) in the nib file right?
Link all them to different variable to refer them.
set the frames through coding. like
tblView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 416);
label.frame = CGRectMake(60, 420, 200, 50);
textField.frame = CGRectMake(40, 480, 240, 31);
finally set
tblView.scrollEnabled = NO;
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320,520);

UITableView is scrollable and i don't think that you need to take a UIScrollView for your task.You can add a label as a cell row textlable and a UITextField as an AccessoryType in your TableView.
Hope it would help.

There can be two approaches for your problem.
First approach :
No need of taking a UIScrollView. You can shorten your UITableView height and fit all three views on your screen.
Second approach :
Increase the content size of UIScrollView (increase Y parameter).

Yes it is 100% possible. You need to go through two types of tutorials and then you can integrate them for your own use.
You need to learn how to build customized table cell.
You need to learn to create table with multiple headers.
You don't need to use scrollview at all as it is already there in tableview. Or in simple words tableview is build on scrollview. So scrolling property is inherited.
Merge both techniques and you will have you custom tableview. It would not be easy but definitely you can achieve it.

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how to set the content size of a scrollView Dynamically

I have a scrollView and on that scrollView, i have many labels and textView along with one tableView. scrollView is working perfectly fine when the no. of rows are less in tablView but if tableView have more number of rows then i am not able to full content and even i am loosing lots of information in tableView because the tableView isn't scrollable. i have added all the lables, textView and tableView as a subview of scrollview. Can anyone help me in that so i can get full tableView and make it proper scrollable.
Here is my code to set the content size of scrollView.
float maxHeight = 0;
for(UIView *v in [self.scrollView subviews]){
if(v.frame.origin.x + v.frame.size.height > maxHeight)
maxHeight = v.frame.origin.x + v.frame.size.height;
}
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(_scrollView.frame.size.width, maxHeight+100);
First you'll need to resize your table, so that it fits all the rows (since as you said, it's not scrollable). I believe that doing so will make all your rows to not be reusable, so if it's a big table you may get performance issues. Also be aware of #David H's answer, so if you really want to do this, you might be better of using another UIScrollView instead of the UITableView (it won't bring much benefit either way).
Second, you'll need to move all the views beneath the tableview, so that they won't overlap. An easy way to do this is to have those views put together in a different view, so that you only need to move one view instead (in this case however, you'll also need to resize that view accordingly).
Finally, instead of looping through all the scrollview's subviews, it should be easy enough to keep track of the view that is closest to the bottom (this depends on how you generate and add the views to the scroll view).
A tableview is a scroll view subclass, and generally Apple says adding it to another scroll view will cause problems. That said there are ways to make it work. Search here or on google for terms like "how to put a uitableview in a uiscrollview".
EDIT: to make it not scrollable you could put a transparent view over the table view that stops or eats touch events.
self.scrollingView.contentSize=CGSizeMake(320,372);
Try this.

Custom UITableViewCell with Storyboard

My goal is to create a custom UITableViewCell which contains 2 UILabels. One is the title and one is the detail. The detail label should allow for 3 rows of text.
So I went on and created a custom table view cell in storyboard. I also created a subclass of UITableViewCell and linked the two together.
I the added two UILabel to the cell in storyboard and placed them where i wanted them to be and linked them to their coresponding outlets in teh subclass. Since the content of the labels varies I wanted to align the text vertically to the top. As I understand the only way to do this is by calling the sizeToFit method on the label. I execute this under in the sub class of UITableViewCell:
-(void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
[self.detailTextLabel sizeToFit];
}
So far everything seems fine and the text in the detailTextLabel is aligned as it should. Although when i satrt interacting with the cell, for example slide my finger over it so the delete button appears, the detailTextLabel will change size to the size that was set in storyboard. This causes the text to be misaligned. Similar things happen when i select the cell and change to another view and the return to the table view via a tab bar
My question is: Is there any way of creating this custom cell differently using storyboard or is my only alterative to create everything programtically?
Regard, Christian
Maybe you should take a look at this if you still want to vertically align your text in your UILabel without sizeToFit (who will resize it when you will interact with your cell).
About your question, I think you can create your custom cell from a xib file like this.

Continue alternating row colors in the "bounce area" of a UITableView

In Weather.app on iPhone, scrolling past the bounds of the Hourly tableview continues to show the alternating table cells, just without any text inside of them (see image below). I was wondering how I could replicate this look. This question provides one solution, but I was hoping there was a more efficient way then just adding an image of blank cells above my tableview.
Thanks
You can use the headerView and footerView properties of the UITableView. These allow you to specify custom UIViews that will be placed before and after your content cells.
So, you should initialize a UIView with some dummy inner views with alternating colors. The height for this UIView should be equal to tableView.frame.size.height. then just do:
tableView.headerView = headerViewWithFakeColors;
tableView.footerView = footerViewWithFakeColors;
Also, you will also need to change the contentInset property so that these fake header&footer views are only visible when the user is bouncing (with contentInset you can control the point where the tableview starts bouncing)
tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(headerViewWithFakeColors.frame.size.height, 0, -footerViewWithFakeColors.frame.size.height, 0);

Can't get label to show over background of grouped UITableView

I am trying to get a label to show over part of the grey-space in a grouped UITableView, but it only appears if the label is in a cell. I have tried adding the label as a subview of both the ViewController and the tableView and bringing it to front, but in either case it only shows over the white-space of a cell, not over the grey-space of the background. I know that I am a complete noob at Obj-C and iPhone dev and that this is a really stupid question, but I would really appreciate any help.
My code:
CGRect cgRct = CGRectMake(180, 20, 100, 50);
label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:cgRct];
label.text = #"Editting On";
label.textColor = [UIColor redColor];
label.hidden = TRUE;
//Display label
[tableView addSubview:label];
[tableView bringSubviewToFront:label];
There is probably a way to get this to work, but I'm betting that what you're trying to do is much simpler than you're making it. So, maybe explain what you want to do.
The first thing I see is you've set the hidden property to TRUE (you should be using YES, instead of TRUE by the way). If the label is hidden, you won't be able to see it, so either remove that line or change its parameter to NO.
Next, I should point out that you can add custom views for the table header and footer. You can even use custom views for section headers and footers. If what you want is a custom cell, then you'll want to either code that by hand or create a custom cell view in Interface Builder and then load it dynamically.
If what you are wanting, however, is to overlay the entire view with another view, then it will work to add the view to the top level controller's view--which is to say if you have a navigation based app, for example, you can access the navigation controller and add your view as a subview.
[[[self navigationController] view] addSubview:label];
HTH.

UITableView problem with "Inset" property

My navigation-based-app's background looks like a paper on a cork bulletin board. My RootViewController is, of course, an UITableView. I want to have the TableView end on the paper and not on the cork. Some pictures here to explain it better:
alt text http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3469/bildschirmfoto20091028u.png
This is how it looks when I scroll to the last row of the TableView. For this, I'm using the "Inset" property for "Content-Bottom" and "Scrollers-Bottom" in Interface Builder.
alt text http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3469/bildschirmfoto20091028u.png
This is how it looks when I scroll to the top of the TableView.
alt text http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/64/35859544.png
And this is how I want the TableView to look when I scroll to the top.
How can I do this?
Thanks a lot ;-)
Yassin
You can make frame of your tableView with the smaller size.height parameter. It will do the trick.
Oh... Ok. I have no mac nearby right now so I don't want to post much code. I will try to explain. First of all, you should inherit your rootViewController from UIViewController, not UITableViewController. If you are using IB, you have to refer your main view to your RootViewController's view property. Then you can set background of you main view
[self.view setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"myImage.png"]]];
or add a UIImageView to your view and set your background image there. Then you have to add a UITableView to your view and set it's frame at any size you want. Next step - to refer your new tableView to the outlet inside your class. Smth like that:
IBOutlet UITableView* myTableView;
in your viewDidLoad: method set your new tableView's background to clearColor
[myTableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
and the last one. all your self.tableView you have to replace with myTableView.
P.S. Oh, don't forget that your new tableView should has frame with x,y,width properties, identical to your self.view's ones and tableView's height property should be a bit smaller.
Or just use insertSubview:corkBoard atIndex:1 during viewDidLoad or whatever. The corkBoard name should be whichever view the cork board is on, and index counts how many views are below it. So 1 would be only one view underneath, the UITableView. Make sense? Of course if you have more views you want underneath it, just change the index count.
In my opinion, this works better than setting a frame. The frame would have an awkward whitespace below it, while this just puts the table behind the cork. Quite ingenious :)