I'm tying to pop up a modal UITableView with a search bar to allow the user to select an item. This is displayed from the flipside of an app created using the Utility template. I can display the UITableView fine, but although I can add a Search Bar and Search Display Controller component onto the the table in IB fine, when run the search is not displayed when the modal view is poped up.
Is this possible? Is there some restriction on using modal views with search?
EDIT: I got around this by changing the flipside view to use a navcontroller and showing the UITableView by pushing that rather than modal.
Can you post your code?
Also, what about having the modal view load the search view (a view within a view). That seems like a work around if indeed it is not standard behavior.
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I have implemented the search bar for the table in the first tab and this works fine and filters fine, however, with the same code and the xib linked up all the same etc on the second tab it no longer displays the search bar. Is there a simple reason to this?
Separate out the UISearchBar into its own class and then call it from the multiple views. It is not meant to be reinstantiated for each view controller.
Yes, there is a simple reason—the search bar is a subview of your main view, so when that view gets swiped off screen, it disappears with that view. To fix this, you'll have to add the search bar to the view that holds your tab bar controller—you'll probably have to put it in MainWindow.xib. You can still connect it to your tab bar controller if you need to—just add a reference to in the XIB.
Hello everybody i need your help.
I am making a tab bar based application in iphone. i have more than 5 button to show in tab bar. when i did it, five button displayed fifth button is more..... but when i clicked on more then more button came in a table view not in tab bar.
That's how it works. From the documentation (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/TabBarControllers/TabBarControllers.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007457-CH102-SW2):
If you add more than five items to the
viewControllers property, the tab bar
controller automatically inserts a
special view controller (called the
More view controller) to handle the
display of the additional items. The
More view controller provides a custom
interface that lists the additional
view controllers in a table, which can
expand to accommodate any number of
view controllers. The More view
controller cannot be customized or
selected and does not appear in any of
the view controller lists managed by
the tab bar controller. For the most
part, it appears automatically when it
is needed and is separate from your
custom content. You can get a
reference to it though by accessing
the moreNavigationController property
of UITabBarController.
That is intended behavior and not an issue, if you read the viewController Programming guide you could have seen that right away: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007457
I am having a bit of trouble with my navigationController in my app. I am using the Kal Calendar component - https://github.com/klazuka/Kal.
I have created the view controller and have go it to appear in the correct position within in my app i.e. Click on a new tab and init the rootviewcontroller as the KalViewController and it sort of loads correctly but the back button is visible on the navBar when it should be the rootView and it is clickable 5 times before going to the true root, it's hard to explain but I have no idea what is wrong.
i have tried it with a table view and clicking on the first element in the tableView takes you to the calendar which works perfectly but this is not what I want/need in the app.
Thanks.
It sounds like you have both a UINavigationController and a UITabBarController. Make sure that the tab bar controller is your “main” view and that there are separate UINavigationControllers for each view controller in the tab bar. The different tabs’ view controllers should not be in the same navigation controller’s view heirarchy.
Ok, this is an odd one and I can reproduce it with a new project easily.
Here is the setup:
I have a UISplitViewController. In the left side I have a UITabBarController. In this tab bar controller I have two UINavigationControllers. In the navigation controllers I have UITableViewControllers. These table views have search bars on them.
Ok, what happens with this setup is that if I'm in portrait mode and bring up this view in the popover and I start a search in one of the table views and cancel it, the navigation bar becomes unresponsive. That is, the "back" button as well as the right side button cannot be clicked.
If I do the exact same thing in landscape mode so we are not in a popover, this doesn't happen. The navigation bar stays responsive.
So, the problem only seems to happen inside a popover.
I've also noticed that if I do the search but click on an item in the search results which ends up loading something into the "detail view" of the split view and dismissing the popover, and then come back to the popover and then click the Cancel button for the search, the navigation bar is responsive.
My application is a universal app and uses the same tab bar controller in the iPhone interface and it works there without this issue.
As I mentioned above, I can easily reproduce this with a new project. Here are the steps if you want to try it out yourself:
start new project - split view
create new UITableViewController class (i named TableViewController)
uncomment out the viewDidLoad method as well as the rightBarButtonItem line in viewDidLoad (so we will have an Edit button in the navigation bar)
enter any values you want to return from numberOfSectioinsInTableView and numberOfRowsInSection methods
open MainWindow.xib and do the following:
please note that you will need to be viewing the xib in the middle "view mode" so you can expand the contents of the items
drag a Tab Bar Controller into the xib to replace the Navigation Controller item
drag a Navigation Controller into the xib as another item under the Tab Bar Controller
delete the other two view controllers that are under the Tab Bar Controller (so, now our tab bar has just the one navigation controller on it)
inside the navigation controller, drag in a Table View Controller and use it to replace the View Controller (Root View Controller)
change the class of the new Table View Controller to the class created above (TableViewController for me)
double-click on the Table View under the new Table View Controller to open it up (will be displayed in the tab bar inside the split view controller)
drag a "Search Bar and Search Display" onto the table view
save the xib
run the project in simulator
while in portrait mode, click on the Root List button to bring up popover
notice the Edit button is clickable
click in the Search box - we go into search mode
click the Cancel button to exit search mode
notice the Edit button no longer works
So, can anyone help me figure out why this is happening?
Thanks,
Mark
Ok, got an answer from Apple Developer Technical Support. They investigated it and found it is a bug in the UIPopoverController. He gave me a workaround that kind of works but the right button in the nav bar ends up sliding across the screen after canceling the search. But, at least it fixes the issue. He also suggested I send in a bug report to Apple and I've done that as well. Hopefully they will fix this in the next version of the SDK.
Here's a copy of the relevant portion of the Apple engineer's response:
I've created my own project and dipped into what is going on and it looks like it's a bug in the UIPopoverController where after the UISearchBar is being dismissed, something is being obstructed in the navigation bar.
There's a workaround that I've found for now, though the animation that occurs is not amazingly optimal:
- Use the – searchBarCancelButtonClicked: method of UISearchBarDelegate and add the following:
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
As I said, it looks like the popover is pushing the button onto the navigation bar, so it may not be what you're looking for.
I tried the rightBarItem technique mentioned, but it didn't work for me. I had to do this (which is also a hack really)
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:NO];
This might be because my UINavigationBar isn't one unified with the popover, but I can't say for sure.
I have a view (and corresponding view controller) in my iPhone app that allows the user to edit settings for the application. This view is accessible via a menu (a table view). I use pushViewController in my UIViewController subclass to get it shown. When I do this, it appears as I expect - the nav bar appears on top of the xib, and the empty space I left up there in the xib is occupied.
I also sometimes show that settings view as a modal view using presentModalViewController. When I do this, the top of the xib starts at the bottom of the nav bar instead of underneath it.
The documentation does say that presentModalViewController will resize the view to fit, so I could see this being expected behavior. However, for me, it isn't desired behavior.
I can kind of work around it by setting the settings view controller to not show the nav bar, but then there's a weird empty space at the top of the view.
Ideally, I'd like to use the same xib in both of these situations. However, maybe that's not a best practice? How do you guys usually reuse a xib?
I was thinking that maybe I could have the view controller shift all of the controllers up if it's in modal mode, but I'd like something better, if it's available.
Each UIView has an autoresizingMask property. By configuring that (can be done in Interface Builder), you should be able to reuse the view and have it automatically resize to take up the whole screen when the nav bar should not be there.
Apple's documentation is here:
http://developer.apple.com/iPhone/library/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/WindowsandViews/WindowsandViews.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007072-CH8-SW10