I'm trying to layout several custom views in a landscape iPad application (made landscape by deleting all but one interface mention in the plist). However, my code currently doesn't work as expected;
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
LeftTableViewController *lvc = [[LeftTableViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"LeftTableViewController" bundle:nil];
// Resize this view controller appropriately
lvc.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 224, 768);
[[self view] addSubview:lvc.view];
ReaderViewController *rvc = [[ReaderViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
// Resize this view controller appropriately
rvc.view.frame = CGRectMake(224, 0, 800, 768);
[[self view] addSubview:rvc.view];</code>
I expected the code above to give me the LeftTableViewController entirely to the left. This appears to work, but I had to remove all the size markers from the nib to get it there. The ReaderViewController should take up the remaining space, but it only takes up about half of the space left. This image illustrates this (the ReaderViewController is the green space, while the application is the purple space).
http://i52.tinypic.com/z7d2.png
I seem to be misunderstanding something crucial about frames and bounds in landscape mode. What coordinates for the frame or bounds should I set for a view to appear as expected and why?
Coordinates are same for both landscape, portrait modes. Portrait is 0,0 (left, top) and 768,1024 (width, height) and 0,0 (left, top) and 1024,768 (width, height) for landscape.
It's quite hard to answer, because we don't see the whole code and your XIB file. You have wrong autoresizing mask probably.
P.S. 768 is not correct height, because you have status bar visible, which has 20 pixels.
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This should be a pretty common thing to do, but I haven't been able to get it to work exactly right.
I have rectangular content. It normally fits in 320x361: portrait mode minus status bar minus ad minus tab bar.
I have put that content in a UIScrollView and enabled zooming. I also want interface rotation to work. The content will always be a tall rectangle, but when zoomed users might want to see more width at a time and less height.
What do I need to do in Interface Builder and code to get this done? How should I set my autoresizing on the different views? How do I set my contentSize and contentInsets?
I have tried a ton of different ways and nothing works exactly right. In various of my solutions, I've had problems with after some combination of zooming, interface rotation, and maybe scrolling, it's no longer possible to scroll to the entire content on the screen. Before you can see the edge of the content, the scroll view springs you back.
The way I'm doing it now is about 80% right. That is, out of 10 things it should do, it does 8 of them. The two things it does wrong are:
When zoomed in portrait mode, you can scroll past the edge of the content, and see a black background. That's not too much to complain about. At least you can see all the content. In landscape mode, zoomed or not, seeing the black background past the edge is normal, since the content doesn't have enough width to fill the screen at 1:1 zoom level (the minimum).
I am still getting content stuck off the edge when it runs on a test device running iOS 3.0, but it works on mine running 4.x. -- Actually that was with the previous solution. My tester hasn't tried the latest solution.
Here is the solution I'm currently using. To summarize, I have made the scroll view as wide and tall as it needs to be for either orientation, since I've found resizing it either manually or automatically adds complexity and is fragile.
View hierarchy:
view
scrollView
scrollableArea
content
ad
view is 320x411 and has all the autoresizing options on, so conforms to screen shape
scrollView is 480 x 361, starts at origin -80,0, and locks to top only and disables stretching
scrollableArea is 480 x 361 and locks to left and top. Since scrollView disables stretching, the autoresizing masks for its subviews don't matter, but I tell you anyway.
content is 320x361, starts at origin 80,0, and locks to top
I am setting scrollView.contentSize to 480x361.
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation supports all orientations except portrait upside down.
In didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation, I am setting a bottom content inset of 160 if the orientation is landscape, resetting to 0 if not. I am setting left and right indicator insets of 80 each if the orientation is portrait, resetting if not.
scrollView.minimumZoomScale = 1.0
scrollView.maximumZoomScale = 2.0
viewForZoomingInScrollView returns scrollableArea
// in IB it would be all options activated
scrollView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
scrollView.contentSize = content.frame.size; // or bounds, try both
what do you mean with scrollableArea?
your minZoomScale is set to 1.0 thats fine for portrait mode but not for landscape. Because in landscape your height is smaller than in portrait you need to have a value smaller than 1.0. For me I use this implementation and call it every time, the frame of the scrollView did change:
- (void)setMaxMinZoomScalesForCurrentBounds {
CGSize boundsSize = self.bounds.size; // self is a UIScrollView here
CGSize contentSize = content.bounds.size;
CGFloat xScale = boundsSize.width / contentSize.width;
CGFloat yScale = boundsSize.height / contentSize.height;
CGFloat minScale = MIN(xScale, yScale);
if (self.zoomScale < minScale) {
[self setZoomScale:minScale animated:NO];
}
if (minScale<self.maximumZoomScale) self.minimumZoomScale = minScale;
//[self setZoomScale:minScale animated:YES];
}
- (void)setFrame:(CGRect)rect { // again, this class is a UIScrollView
[super setFrame:rect];
[self setMaxMinZoomScalesForCurrentBounds];
}
I don't think I understood the entire problem from your post, but here's an answer for what I did understand.
As far as I know (and worked with UIScrollView), the content inside a UIScrollView is not automatically autoresized along with the UIScrollView.
Consider the UIScrollView as a window/portal to another universe where your content is. When autoresizing the UIScrollView, you are only changing the shape/size of the viewing window... not the size of the content in the other universe.
However, if needed you can intercept the rotation event and manually change your content too (with animation so that it looks good).
For a correct autoresize, you should change the contentSize for the scrollView (so that it knows the size of your universe) but also change the size of UIView. I think this is why you were able to scroll and get that black content. Maybe you just updated the contentSize, but now the actuall content views.
Personally, I haven't encountered any case that required to resize the content along with the UIScrollView, but I hope this will get you started in the right direction.
If I understand correctly is that you want a scrollview with an image on it. It needs to be fullscreen to start with and you need to be able to zoom in. On top of that you want it to be able to rotate according to orientation.
Well I've been prototyping with this in the past and if all of the above is correct the following code should work for you.
I left a bit of a white area for the bars/custombars.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//first inits and allocs
scrollView2 = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"someImageName"]];
[scrollView2 addSubview:imageView];
[self drawContent]; //refreshing the content
[self.view addSubview:scrollView2];
}
-(void)drawContent
{
//this refreshes the screen to the right sizes and zoomscales.
[scrollView2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[scrollView2 setCanCancelContentTouches:NO];
scrollView2.clipsToBounds = YES;
[scrollView2 setDelegate:self];
scrollView2.indicatorStyle = UIScrollViewIndicatorStyleWhite;
[scrollView2 setContentSize:CGSizeMake(imageView.frame.size.width, imageView.frame.size.height)];
[scrollView2 setScrollEnabled:YES];
float minZoomScale;
float zoomHeight = imageView.frame.size.height / scrollView2.frame.size.height;
float zoomWidth = imageView.frame.size.width / scrollView2.frame.size.width;
if(zoomWidth > zoomHeight)
{
minZoomScale = 1.0 / zoomWidth;
}
else
{
minZoomScale = 1.0 / zoomHeight;
}
[scrollView2 setMinimumZoomScale:minZoomScale];
[scrollView2 setMaximumZoomScale:7.5];
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
if (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) {
// Portrait
//the 88pxls is the white area that is left for the navbar etc.
self.scrollView2.frame = CGRectMake(0, 88, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height - 88);
[self drawContent];
}
else {
// Landscape
//the 88pxls is the white area that is left for the navbar etc.
self.scrollView2.frame = CGRectMake(0, 88, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height, self.view.frame.size.width);
[self drawContent];
}
return YES;
}
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
return self.imageView;
}
I hope this will fix your troubles. If not leave a comment.
When you want to put a content (a UIView instance, let's call it theViewInstance ) in a UIScrollView and then scroll / zoom on theViewInstance , the way to do it is :
theViewInstance should be added as the subview of the UIScrollView
set a delegate to the UIScrollView instance and implement the selector to return the view that should be used for zooming / scrolling:
-(UIView*)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return theViewInstance;
}
Set the contentSize of the UIScrollView to the frame of the theViewInstance by default:
scrollView.contentSize=theViewInstance.frame.size;
(Additionally, the accepted zoom levels can be set in the UIScrollView :)
scrollView.minimumZoomScale=1.0;
scrollView.maximumZoomScale=3.0;
This is the way a pinch to zoom is achieved on a UIImage : a UIImageView is added to a UIScrollView and in the UIScrollViewDelegate implementation, the UIImageView is returned (as described here for instance).
For the rotation support, this is done in the UIViewController whose UIView contains the UIScrollView we just talked about.
I have set up all my views in portrait mode, then set the autoresize mask accordingly so that it will auto resize the views as the orientation changes.... however, this seems to work OK for views that are already displayed. If I load any new views whilst in landscape mode I get inverted width and height values on the loaded view's frame.
Do I have to calculate the frame size based on orientation for each of the main views?
e.g., instead of
UIView* view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,500, 100)];
I would have to do:
CGRect frame;
if([UIDevice orientation] == UIDeviceOrientationLandscape){
frame = CGRectMake(0,0,100,500)
}else{
frame = CGRectMake(0,0,500,100)
}
UIView* view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
It seems a bit long-winded to me, given that the autorotation once a view is loaded works perfectly!
How do you manage view frames?
thanks
I manage my view frames using [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];.
It is also very useful when building universal apps as you can use it to design views that will display correctly on both devices.
What I wanted to achieve here is simply fit the image width to the screen on both orientations and use UIScrollView to just allow scroll vertically to see the whole image.
Both viewController and view are created pragmatically.
The image loaded is larger than screen on both width and height.
Here is the related code in my viewController:
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
return YES;
}
- (void)loadView {
UIScreen *screen = [UIScreen mainScreen];
CGRect rect = [screen applicationFrame];
self.view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
self.view.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill;
self.view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
UIImage *img=[[UIImage alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"image" ofType:#"png"]];
UIImageView *imgView =[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:img];
[img release];
imgView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill;
imgView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
[self.view addSubview:imgView];
[imgView release];
}
I tried all combinations for both contentMode above, did not give me correct result.
The most close I am getting now: I manually resize imgView in loadView, portrait mode would display correctly since app always starts with portrait mode, but in landscape mode, the width fits correctly, but image is centered vertically rather than top aligned.
If I add the imgView to a scrollView, in landscape mode it looks like contentSize is not set to full image size. but when I scroll bounce I can see the image is there in full size.
Questions:
why I need to resize it manually?
in landscape mode how and where I can 'move' the imgView, so imgView.frame.origin is (0,0) and works correctly with a scroll view?
Update
I added:
imgView.clipsToBounds = YES;
and find out in landscape mode the image bounds is smaller than screen in height.
So the question becomes how to have the image view keeps original ratio (thus shows the full image always) when rotated to landscape? Do I need to manually resize it after rotation again?
Instead of manually take care of orientation change and change view details. I plan to follow Apple document and make separate view controllers for each orientations.
see P42 # ViewControllerProgrammingGuide:
Creating an Alternate Landscape Interface
Here in the code you are not using any scrollView.
You need to add that imageView to ScrollView. and set the scrollView frame as same as the main view and contentSize to imageView or image Size.
If you are using scroll view in the app, then have you also resized the scroll view and the subviews as well, your code if fine just try to resize the subviews as well.
I use the following code to do so.
self.homescroll.autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;// | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin;
self.homescroll.autoresizesSubviews=YES;
[self.homescroll setNeedsLayout];
[self.view addSubview:homescroll];
Just resize the subviews as well.
I've managed to manually detect rotation and set my own rotation effects between two UIViewControllers. When in the first, rotating to landscape prompts the second to be pushed on with a manual animation. The status bar moves to the correct orientation. However, the view loaded by the second UIViewController is not in the position I expected it. Instead there is margin on the left where the status bar previously was and margin/space at the bottom that I was expecting to be filled by the view.
(Click to enlarge. The orange box is simply to reference where 0,0 is in the rotated UIView, CustomView)
The code I'm using in my view controller to do the rotation is:
-(void)loadView {
CustomView *customView = [[CustomView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, 480, 300)];
self.view = customView;
CGAffineTransform rotate = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(degreesToRadian(90));
[self.view setTransform:rotate];
[customView release];
}
Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT Managed to solve after a variety of trial and error approaches - answer provided below. Perhaps there's a more elegant/obvious solution though - if so feel free to provide!
try these on the viewcontrollers. Solved the 20 pixel(status bar height) clip issue when I was getting fullscreen subviews to show up.
[viewcontroller1.view setCenter:CGPointMake(viewcontroller1.view.center.x, viewcontroller1.view.center.y-20)];
and/or
[viewcontroller2.view setCenter:CGPointMake(viewcontroller2.view.center.x-20, viewcontroller2.view.center.y)];
I managed to solve this by setting the View's bounds after the transformation:
self.view.bounds = CGRectMake(20, -20, 480, 300);
Edit 2: When I start the app without the status bar on top everything behaves as planned. With the status bar I couldn't get the views to act as I wanted. It looks as if the UINavigationController keeps resizing the content view by subtracting the 20 pixels of the status bar. I don't know.
I created a simple UINavigationController-based application. The root view in this navigation controller is a UITableView. At a certain time I want to slide in a 80 pixel high view from the bottom. The whole view on the top (the one that is controlled by the UINavigationController) should resize and get 80 pixel smaller to make room for the new bottom view.
This is basically the code I use to repositioning the views:
-(void)showTeaser {
float adHeight = 80;
[adView setFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,self.navigationController.view.bounds.size.height, 320.0, 80.0)];
[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow] addSubview:adView];
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
[adView setAlpha:1.0];
[adView setFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,self.navigationController.view.bounds.size.height-adHeight, 320.0, 80.0)];
[self.navigationController.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,0.0, 320.0, self.navigationController.view.bounds.size.height-adHeight)];
[self.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0, 320.0, self.view.bounds.size.height-adHeight)];
[UIView commitAnimations]; }
I lowered the Navigationbar's alpha, set the UITableviewController's view to red. The new view is purple.
This is what happens. First screenshot initial state. Everything is looking normal. Second screenshot shows state after changing the frames. The view of the UITableviewController is always pushed 20 pixel under the Navigationbar. Also, if I try to add more views to the keywindow, they always end up 20 pixel higher than I expect. It almost looks like the keywindow (minus the navigation bar) is pushed up 20 pixel.
Edit 1: No matter to what size I resize the view, it's always 20 pixel.
Do I make a mistake by adding views to the keywindow at all? Shouldn't I do this?
alt text http://www.hans-schneider.de/iphone-seo/1.png alt text http://www.hans-schneider.de/iphone-seo/2.png
To solve this, I made the view of the UINavigationController a subview of a UIView, and manually set the bounds of the view for the `UINavigationController'.
//outerView is a UIView defined in the interface
outerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake( 0.0, 0.0, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height);];
//mainNavigationController is a UINavigationController defined in the interface
//rootViewController is a UIViewController (or inherited class) defined in the interface and instanced before this code
mainNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootViewController];
//set the frame for the view of the navigation controller - 20 is due to the status bar
mainNavigationController.view.frame = CGRectMake( 0.0, 20.0, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height - 20);
Then later, when I go to resize, I resize the parent 'UIView' rather than the 'UINavigationController' view.
//change the outer view's frame to resize everything
//adHeight is a float defined earlier
outerView.frame = CGRectMake( 0.0, 20.0, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height - 20 - adHeight);
This works well in an animation sequence.
Edit 2011-05-12: I updated the outerView frame to fill the screen. This must be set to allow for touch events.
Have you tried using the transform property of your tableview instead of manually changing it's frame? It may work out better, since the frame depends on the origin, and you only want to change it's size.