A bug in iphone sdk? - iphone

I have a UIMenuController calling a modal view, however the context menu doesn't hide itself upon calling the modal view. The context menu always hides itself when it's out of focus. I don't think this is the right behavior.

The menu controller probably has no idea you've presented a modal view controller, so you just need to hide it yourself using setMenuVisible:animated:.
I haven't used UIMenuController myself, but that sounds like reasonable behaviour to me.

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How to make a popover non-modal?

I am trying to have popovers over console.log(), helloword(), and others. However, since popovers in MUI are modal, I cannot show other popovers unless I click outside the popover that is currently opened.
Is there a way to disable modal behavior?
So far, I forced non-modality via properties:
style ={{width:0, height:0}}
modal={null}
hideBackdrop={true}
disableBackdropClick={true}
disableAutoFocus={true}
disableEnforceFocus={true}
What about a modal={true|false}?

Showing a overlaying menu when tab bar item is clicked - IOS

Thanks for reading my question!
I have a 5-part tabbar which I use for app navigation, the center tab is covered by a UIButton and is slightly larger (much like the instagram app). This works fine.
But what I want is the far right tab bar item to show a overlaying menu when clicked. I don't want it to switch to a viewcontroller with a menu. I want the menu to be displayed no matter which of the other views you're in at the moment. So I want it to act much like a button which is in the tabbar. But I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Should I use a overlaying button over the tabbaritem or should I catch the tabbarclick, but how can I prevent the view from changing in that case?
Thanks you for any help!
You need to implement UITabBarDelegate. Then override tabBar:didSelectItem: and implement your custom displaying here. See below for reference
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITabBarDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html
Then i would just make a custom UIView and fade it in when that specific tagged UITabBarItem is pressed.

UIToolbar disappears after dismissing Modal View Controller

I'm aware some of you may not be familiar with Monotouch, but this could certainly be a general iOS issue rather than a specific Monotouch issue.
I'm recreating an app with similar functionality to the default mail app:
This is a simple recreation of our app. It's a UIView which contains a UITableView and a UIToolbar. It's loaded from a XIB file (which contains accompanying view controller code). This view is a UITabController view (though I'm sure this shouldnt affect things?).
This has been pushed from a navigation Controller using
controller.PushViewController(inboxItem.Controller, true);
(where inboxItem is a custom object I've made, the Controller property being the inboxItem's view controller).
Pressing the right hand button on the toolbar presents a new modal view (compose new message) - which does its thing and no matter which way its dismissed, upon dismissal, the UIToolbar disappears. However, if I am to click on another tab then click back onto this tab, the Toolbar reappears. Is this a redraw issue?
Am I doing something wrong with the way I'm structuring my app? Or have I happened to stumble across some bizarre iOS/Monotouch bug? (I'm hoping it's for the former - so I can improve my iOS development).
I solved the problem. Basically, what was happening was when the ModalView was being presented and then dismissed, the toolBar was being moved down by 44 pixels each time.
In my example, the toolBar is placed above a UITabBar, so when the modal view was dismissed the toolbar was being moved out of view. I'm not sure why this is happening but I'll be sure to file appropriate bug reports.
One quick and (very) dirty way around this is to move the toolBar up 44 pixels when displaying the modalview, so that when it is dismissed, it will move it back down to the appropriate position.

Current UIView Questions iPhone SDK

I posted earlier but am running into similar problems again. Basically the way that my app is setup there is a top bar that is basically just a static image that has UIButtons placed on top of it. That is the Main View Controller and is persistent no matter what view is shown beneath it. I can't use a navigation controller because it is not possible to change the height and I need the bar to be significantly larger than a navbar. However my bar is functioning in much the same way. There is a "Home" Button, a "Back" Button and several destination buttons.
I understand how to switch views from say the home screen. My confusion comes with the back button. In order to press back the app is going to need to know what view is currently being displayed so that it can be removed from view and a new subview can be added. Ideally I would use the UINavigationController so that I can push and pop views which is really what I want to do here, however that is not possible because of the visual problem.
Does anybody know of a method that returns the current displayed view so I could do something like the following
[currentview.view removeFromSuperView];
[self.view insertSubview:experienceViewController.view atIndex:0]
You can use UINavigationController with the nav bar hidden. Put the nav controller inside a view that does have your jumbo toolbar and you'll have access to the push/pop behavior you're looking for.

How to present a modal view controller with fixed UIToolbar?

I am trying to set up a Modal View Controller, that that lies below a fixed toolbar. therefore the toolbar is supposed to stay on top while the modal view rolls in.
the Safari-App does that for example, when hitting the bookmarks-button. the toolbar stays, the buttons change..
I tried a couple of things like pushing the toolbar to the front and ended up not using the presentModalViewController method at all, and animating the new View manually into a subview instead. but that brought a couple of other issues along.
I'm not sure what you are saying, when you press add bookmark in safari, a new modal view shows with no tool bar. The navigation bar at the top is not a tool bar if that is what you mean. They are UIToolbarItem set into self.navigationItem.
All modal views I've seen are animated until they take up the whole of the screen. Those modal-like views that only scroll up to a certain point in some apps, are done by hand. Maybe you can cover those issues encountered when doing this by hand in another post?