UINavigationBar height and landscape mode - iphone

If I use a UINavigationController to display my UINavigationBar, this bar is much slimmer in landscape mode than in portrait mode.
Everything fine so far, as I want this behavior, but I have one view which isn't handled by an UINavigationController and so I just dragged and dropped a UINavigationBar from Interface Builder into the view but this one has always the same size and I can't see a way to tell the UINavigationBar that it should resize.
Anyone knows how to achieve this?

You can resize the the navigation bar in the layoutSubviews method of your UIView, like so:
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
// Let navBar tell us what height it would prefer at the current orientation
CGFloat navBarHeight = [navBar sizeThatFits:self.bounds.size].height;
// Resize navBar
navBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.bounds.size.width, navBarHeight);
}

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Convert UIViewController to UIScrollViewController

I am new to iPad developer,
I made one Registration form in my application, when i see my application in Portrait mode,
i am able to see whole form with no scrolling, but when i see same form in Landscape mode, i am not able to see part which is at bottom of page, for that a scrolling should be there to see bottom part.
:
In my .h file when i replace
#interface ReminderPage : UIViewController{
...
...
}
:UIViewController with :UIScrollView
and then when i add label in my .m file like this,
UILabel *Lastpaidlbl = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(70 ,400, 130, 50)]autorelease];
Lastpaidlbl.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
Lastpaidlbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:20];
Lastpaidlbl.text = #"Lastpaid on :";
[self.view addSubview:Lastpaidlbl];
I am getting error on last line Property view not found on object of type classname.
i am unable to add label in my view.
Any help will be appreciated.
The question appears to be really asking how can all the components on the screen be placed inside a UIScrollView, rather than a UIView. Using Xcode 4.6.3, I found I could achieve this by simply:
In Interface Builder, select all the sub-views inside the main UIView.
Choose Xcode menu item "Editor | Embed In | Scroll View".
The end result was a new scroll view embedded in the existing main UIView, will all the former sub-views of the UIView now as sub-views of the UIScrollView, with the same positioning.
If you want to replace your UIViewController with a UIScrollView, you will have to go a bit of refactoring to your code. The error you get is just an example of that:
the syntax:
[self.view addSubview:Lastpaidlbl];
is correct if self is a UIViewController; since you changed it to be UIScrollView, you should now do:
[self addSubview:Lastpaidlbl];
You will have quite a few changes like this one to make to your code and will face some issues.
Another approach would be this:
instantiate a UIScrollView (not derive from it);
add your UIView (such as you have defined it) to the scroll view;
define the contentSize of the scroll view so to include the whole UIView you have.
The scroll view acts as a container for your existing view (you add your controls to the scroll view, then add the scroll view to self.view); this way, you could integrate it within your existing controller:
1. UIScrollView* scrollView = <alloc/init>
2. [self.view addSubview:scrollView]; (in your controller)
3. [scrollView addSubview:<label>]; (for all of your labels and fields).
4. scrollView.contentSize = xxx;
I think the latter approach will be much easier.
Please put all of your UIComponents to the UIScrollview and then it will start scrolling.
please look in to content size. please change it according to the orientation of device.
You're subclassing UIScrollView, so there is no self.view because already self is the view (of the scrollview). You dont need to subclass the scrollview, you can just embed your components in a ivar scrollview and set its contentSize (in your case, you have to enable the scrolling just when the device is in landscape mode). In interface builder you can embed the selected elements in one click, Editor-> Embed in-> scrollview.
First create scrollview
UIScrollView * scr=[[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 70, 756, 1000)];
scr.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
[ self.view addSubview:scr];
second
change [self.view addSubview:Lastpaidlbl];
to
[scr addSubview:Lastpaidlbl];
third
set height depends on content
UIView *view = nil;
NSArray *subviews = [scr subviews];
CGFloat curXLoc = 0;
for (view in subviews)
{
CGRect frame = view.frame;
curXLoc += (frame.size.height);
}
// set the content size so it can be scrollable
[scr setContentSize:CGSizeMake(756, curXLoc)];
Finally
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
if (interfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || interfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
self.scr.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 703,768);
} else {
self.scr.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024);
}
return YES;
}

How to programmatically create UIView with landscape orientation?

I have an iPad application with fixed landscape orientation. Everything works OK until the moment when I programmatically create UIView and add it to my root UIViewController's view - it's orientation is always set to portrait while all other content is displayed in landscape mode. This UIView is a modal view showing some custom form for user.
AlertView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height)];
AlertView.opaque = NO;
AlertView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
AlertView.alpha = 0.7;
<...> // some other configuration code
[window addSubview:AlertView];
So the question is: how can I initiate UIView with landscape orientation? All I can think of is using transform like:
modalView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation( ( 180 * M_PI ) / 360 );
Though it's not too elegant way...
The reason your AlertView gets displayed in portrait orientation while the rest of your app gets displayed in landscape is because you are adding the AlertView as a subview of your window rather than adding it as a subview of a view controller's view. This places it outside of the view hierarchy that gets transformed automatically through autorotation.
The app's window object coordinates autorotation by finding its topmost subview that has a corresponding view controller. Upon device rotation, the window calls shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: on this view controller and transforms its view as appropriate. If you want your view to autorotate, it must be a part of this view's hierarchy.
So instead of [window addSubview:AlertView];, do something like [self.view addSubview:AlertView];.
You should try setting an autoresizing mask.
When the ViewController rotates, your AlertView's bounds would change, too.
yourView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
To make UIViews in landscape orientation, and provided you want your root view controller to always be in portrait mode, you have 2 options:
Do it the way you are doing it by rotating the UIView using a transform
Change the way you are doing it to allow
your root view controller to rotate (easiest). The view controller will then handle the rotations of your UIViews for you

Build a tabbar view controller from scratch

Apple's tab bar controller has a lot of limitations. One important limitation is that you can't modify the tab bar in a rejection safe mode. My tab bar has a simple sliding movements and it's multi row.
For those reasons I decided to build a TBVC from the beginning; everything seems to work correctly, but I'm really messing around with rotation. Every time that I change orientation main view frames are changed.
Here is my hierarchy from top to the container view:
-MainView--contains-->TabBarView+containerView
The containerView is the view used to contain views loaded from the other controllers.
Here is the -loadView method of my CustomTabBaViewController
- (void)loadView
{
UIView *theView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen]bounds]];
theView.autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
theView.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];
containerOfControllersView=[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:theView.bounds];
containerOfControllersView.backgroundColor=[UIColor blueColor];
containerOfControllersView.autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
[theView addSubview:containerOfControllersView];
ideoloTabBar=[[IdeoloTabBar alloc]initWithNumberOfControllers:[controllers count]];
[theView addSubview:ideoloTabBar];
self.view=theView;
[theView release];
}
When I set a new view from another controller I use this method:
-(void)setCurrentViewWithView:(UIView*)theView{
if ([[self.containerOfControllersView subviews] count]>0) {
UIView *tagView=[self.containerOfControllersView viewWithTag:555];
tagView.tag=0;
[tagView removeFromSuperview];
}
theView.tag=555;
theView.autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
theView.frame=[[UIScreen mainScreen]applicationFrame];
[self.containerOfControllersView addSubview:theView];
[self.view bringSubviewToFront:ideoloTabBar];
}
As you can see the views from other view controllers are applied using the applicationFrame.
When I rotate the device happens something wrong, the mainview not only is resized according to the new orientation but also moved by 20px (status bar size) to the botton, thus leaving a gap between the status bar and the container view. Since I gave the mainview the screen bounds I can't understand with it should be moved.
UPDATE
I'm trying a different approach so I've modified the loadView like that:
- (void)loadView
{
[super loadView];
containerOfControllersView=[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
containerOfControllersView.backgroundColor=[UIColor blueColor];
containerOfControllersView.autoresizingMask=UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
self.view.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];
[self.view addSubview:containerOfControllersView];
ideoloTabBar=[[IdeoloTabBar alloc]initWithNumberOfControllers:[controllers count]];
[self.view addSubview:ideoloTabBar];
}
And in the setCurrentViewWithView:(UIView*)theView I've modified the line with
theView.frame=self.view.bounds;
instead of using the applicationFrame.
NOW:
On iPhone when I try to load a modalView it cuts about 40px at the bottom
On iPad when I try to load a modalView it lefts 20px at the bottom, because 20px are under the status bar but wantsFullScreen is NO.
UPDATE 2
It seems that the presentModalViewController should be called from the root view controller. I will create a protocol and an abstract UIViewController subclass to implement it an load it correctly.
Any suggestion? work around?
I don't like the approach of creating an entirely custom TabBarController from scratch. I like to put a custom view on top of a real TabBar as a subview, and then pass all the button presses to the real TabBarController. This way you don't have to code a window manager yourself.
- (void)tabButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
UIButton *button = (UIButton *)sender;
if (button.tag == HomeButton)
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
// etc.
}
This should also be rejection safe.
This has been addressed here: Application frame leaves blank line at the top
But, you could also specify your frame by subtracting 20 from y:
CGRect rect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
theView.frame = CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y - 20, rect.size.width, rect.size.height);
It has been a while since I'm using my custom TabBarViewController with disappearing tabbar and it seems to work properly both on iPad and iPhone.
The main problem that I had was due to an incorrect assignment to the content view frame and probably to a wrong assumption that modalVC were loaded from the current view controller.
First point: the content view should use the bounds of the main view, here is a part of the loadView method of the Root View Controller:
[super loadView];
containerOfControllersView=[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
Second:before add as a subview a view of a view controller remark to it that its frame should have the same bounds of its new parent view.
theView.frame =self.view.bounds;
Third: modal view controllers should be loaded from the root view controller or the will never have correct size. That's why I've implemented a base abstract class for each view controllers that inherit a protocol that manage the presetation and dismissing of modal viewcontrollers.
Hope this helps someone else.
Andrea

iphone: View on top of UIWebView?

I'm working on a browser app, and I have an address bar on top the UIWebView. On MobileSafari if you scroll down, the address bar starts to move to the top, out of the screen, and the UIWebView doesn't scroll. Only when the address bar disappears completely, it starts to scroll. I would like to have this effect in my app as well.
What's the best way to implement this?
Thanks
The only way to implement this requires iOS 5.
In iOS 5, UIWebView has an UIScrollView subview.
And use the following code:
Set a area for the address bar:
[[myWebView scrollView] setContentInset:UIEdgeInsetsMake(64, 0, 0, 0)];
Move the address bar using the scrollview delegate:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView{
if(scrollView.contentOffset.y>=-64&&scrollView.contentOffset.y<30)
{
topBar.frame=CGRectMake(0,-44-scrollView.contentOffset.y, 320, 44);
}
else if(scrollView.contentOffset.y<-64)
topBar.frame=CGRectMake(0,20, 320, 44);//Lock the position
}
There is a way, but I am not sure if it is a bit too hacky. First search for the scrollview within the webview, then alter the contentInset and finally add the searchbar(for example) to the scrollview. The following code is just an example, I did not set any frames correctly and 40 is just a made up height for the searchbar. I am not sure if this will work in every iOS Version.
UIWebView * myWebView = [[UIWebView alloc] init]
UISearchBar * mySearchBar = [[UISearchBar alloc] init];
for (NSObject * aSubView in [myWebView subviews]) {
if ([aSubView isKindOfClass:[UIScrollView class]]) {
UIScrollView * theScrollView = (UIScrollView *)aSubView;
theScrollView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(40, 0, 0, 0);
[theScrollView addSubview:mySearchBar];
}
}
PeakJi's solution works but is a bit laggy. A better solution would be adding an observer to the UIScrollView's content offset, something like
[scrollview addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"contentOffset"
options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
You can find more document on NSKeyValueObserving protocol at
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Protocols/NSKeyValueObserving_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html
Come to think of it, it is simply a scrolling view with an address bar stuck on the top, and both the web view and the bar always move together. Now, lets say you create a scroll view and add two subviews, the address bar and the web view (one below the other). It is to be noted that the height of the web view is determined and fixed after the page has been loaded (in webViewDidFinishLoad:).
Hence, it is simply a scrolling view whose contentSize is equal to the height of the bar + the height of the web view. Now, by default the web view allows scrolling, as it has a scroll view as a subview. As only the outer scroll view should be scrolling, it is required that the web view's scrolling be turned off. For that, fetch the first subview (that's the scroll view) and disable its scrolling using:
(UIScrollView*)[myWebView.subviews objectAtIndex:0].scrollEnabled = NO;

Resizing UINavigationBar on rotation

I have a subclass of UIViewController which handles a UIView. The viewcontroller is presented modally (it slides up from the bottom of the screen). At the top of the view, i have added a navigation bar. Note that this bar is not handled by a navigation controller.
I want to get the navbar to shrink in height when the view rotates to landscape (similar to how it behaves when it is handled by a UINavigationController). However, I can't set its autoresizing mask to flexible height in IB, and doing so in code causes the navbar to disappear completely.
Is there a way to do this? How is it done by the UINavigationController?
P.S. I would prefer not having to resort to a scaling transform, since this would mess up the text in the title.
EDIT: I solved it with a little help, read the answer posted below.
Rather than set it's autoresizing mask, why don't you just check the current orientation in viewWillAppear, as well as in didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation, and set the appropriate frame?
- (void) updateNavBar {
UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
if ((UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft == orientation) ||
(UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight == orientation)) {
myNavBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 34);
} else {
myNavBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44);
}
}
- (void) viewWillAppear {
[self updateNavBar];
// ... SNIP ...
}
- (void)didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)fromInterfaceOrientation {
[self updateNavBar];
// ... SNIP ...
}
I found the solution, and in hindsight i feel rather stupid. I just had to include flexible bottom margin in the navbar's autoresize mask. Credit is due to user RayNewbie in this thread, which pointed me to the solution:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8295525