For a layout made of some views stacked in each other, which are all subviews of the UIView and I wanted to know how to automatically size the main UIView which may be multiline once the app is live and updates come in. UIView width is fixed.
I believe the view (UIView) does size itself so i dont think you will face this issue. Just try to not constrain the height and make sure you select appropriate stack view while doing this since you got multiple. Hope this helps as i assume that you are not using collection view for this matter!
I'm having a problem where I cannot increase the height of my UIScrollView. The UIScrollView lies inside of a UIView. Here is an image depicting my xib setup:
Link in case picture does not appear: http://imgur.com/QT6emuZ
The UIScrollView I'm having troubles with is called "Scroll View-background" in the picture. Is there something beyond changing the height of the UIScrollView's contentSize attribute that I need to do in order for its height to change? Do I need to adjust some attributes of its superview?
Appreciate the help.
Ok, I figured it out. For contentSize to take effect, I had to uncheck its Superview's "Use Autolayout" property in the File Inspector (within your xib or StoryBoard).
I have this UIScrollView inside another UIView, not occuping the entire area (all this is initialized via nib file). I added some content to the scroll view, but whenever I scroll it, the UIScrollView content area moves outside the ScrollView frame, over the UIView area not designated for displaying it.
Shouldn't it remain inside its frame even when I scroll it?
It may be that the clipsToBounds property of your UIScrollView is set to NO. Check the setting in IB, or you can set it in code like so:
scrollView.clipsToBounds = YES;
Failing that, double check that your UIScrollView has exactly the bounds you think it does. Is there any autoresizing flag stuff going on that might be changing the scroll view's bounds?
try to set the clipsToBounds to YES, it may be that:
yourViewController.clipsToBounds = YES;
if not... fbreto is right, post your code...
Make sure you have setContentSize. And also set the frame size of the uiviews inside the uiscrollview correctly when you add them.
Here is a sample code of it http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/Scrolling/Introduction/Intro.html
In IB I have my UIView. Then I have a sub-UIView with a UIScrollView as a sub view. Then the UIScrollView has a sub-UIImageView. The UIScrollView and UIImageView are the same size. They're much bigger than the UIView of which they are subviews. I assumed this would make scrolling work. It doesn't. Is some sort of code required for scroll views to work?
You need to set UIScrollView.contentSize to match the total scrollable size, which is your subview frame size in this case.
As mentioned in the accepted answer, you must set the UIScrollView's contentSize property.
This can be done in Interface Builder.
Select the scroll view
Select the 'identity inspect' in Utilities pane on the right
Under 'User Defined Runtime Attributes' click the '+' button
Set the 'Key Path' value to 'contentSize'
Set the 'Type' value to 'Size'
Set the 'Value' value to '{width, height}' (eg: '{320, 600}')
Build and run and your scroll view will scroll.
The content inset does not affect scrolling. See What's the UIScrollView contentInset property for?
To scroll, you have to make the scrollview's frame smaller than its content, the contained image or view.
This might be obvious to most, but I spent ages wondering why my UIScrollView wouldn't scroll so I'm posting what was stopping me in case it helps anyone else:
The UIScrollView has to be of the dimensions of the visible area in which you wish it to be presented and not the size of it's contents.
Ridiculous on my behalf I know, but just in case it helps someone.
I placed all the content of my scrollview in IB. (buttons, labels, text fields, etc). The full size is 500 tall.
I then resized it to 436 tall in IB.
Then in code, I put this is viewDidLoad:
optionsScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320,500);
So that leaves 64 pixels that I can scroll. It works perfectly.
I also placed "UIScrollViewDelegate" in the <> braces of #interface for my .h file and tied the delegate outlet of the scrollview to File's owner in IB.
I could solve the scrolling problem with the following answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/39945124/5056173
By me the trick was:
You now need to set the height of the content UIView. You can then either specify the height of the content view (blech) or use the
height of the controls contained within by making sure the bottom
control is constrained to the bottom of the content view.
I have set the height and width of the view inside the scrollView with center vertical and horizontal alignment and that was the reason, why it did not work!
After deleting this constraints, I need to add equal width (scrollView and the view inside the scrollView) AND I set the height of the view inside the scrollView directly with the content. Which means: The last element in the view must have a bottom constraint to the view!!
The other important thing that I don't see mentioned here is that UIScrollView does not play nicely with AutoLayout. If it seems like you've done everything correctly, check if your ViewController has autolayout turned on and, if so, turn it off.
(Every time you scroll, the views are re-laid-out. Gak!)
So:
Make sure scrollview's contentSize is bigger than its frame.size
Make sure AutoLayout for the ViewController is turned off.
more, did you enable scrolling?
look at the property
#property(nonatomic, getter=isScrollEnabled) BOOL scrollEnabled
Make sure 3 things,
checking scrollView frame & contentView frame, u may find the answer
scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true
contentView of scrollView height didn't constraint with scroll view height
UIScrollView won't scroll!
reason: contentSize is same as (sub) view
should: contentSize is large than (sub) view
-> UIScrollView can scroll
how set UIScrollView contentSize?
two method:
in code
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
。。。
//[(UIScrollView *)self.view setContentSize:CGSizeMake(375, 1000)];
CGSize curScreenSize = UIScreen.mainScreen.bounds.size;
CGFloat scrollWidth = curScreenSize.width;
CGFloat scrollHeight = curScreenSize.height * 2;
[(UIScrollView *)self.view setContentSize:CGSizeMake(scrollWidth, scrollHeight)];
in UI (Storyboard)
Storyboard-》Identity Inspector-》User Defined Runtime Attributes-》 add new attribute:
contentSize
Type：Size
Value：{375, 1000}
Scroll view works with this:
Frame
then
contentSize
views or objects etc...
If your frame is set to your content size then it won't scroll.
So set your frame ( in IB right panel -> second last tab 'Size Inspector") to the length of your app ( in my case it is 367 as i have a navbar and a tab bar) then programatically set the contentSize to - yup you guessed it ... more than your frame so it can scroll.
Happy days!!
If I set UIScrollView height to self.view.frame.size.height and setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight then when the view loads the UITabBarController and the UINavigationBar the scroll view frame resizes to suit.
However the content size (set at: self.view.frame.size.height) doesn't change. Fair enough I guess - i can't seem to find an autoresizing option for that, so why would it autoresize.
My fix is to just set the content size as less than the frame height, thus the content will always be the height of the frame. (eg: set content size height to 10points).
I'm just wondering if this is the best way to go about this, or if there's a better way? I'm doing this code in viewDidLoad.
Thanks
Tom
The UIScrollView's contentSize property define the size of the view displayed for Span&Zoom. It normally does not have any relation with the container (i.e. scrollview) size but if you really need to resize the content according to the scrollview size, you can overload the layoutSubViews method to do so.