I am having much difficulty being able to dismiss (programmatically) my UIDocumentInteractionController's OpenIn Menu (Using the appropriate - dismissMenuWhatever method from the docs). I just can't seem to get it to work. Does anybody have any suggestions? Maybe I have an inadequate intelligence level? I am beginning to question the meaning of life.
make sure you are calling dimissMenuAnimated: on the right UIDocumentInteractionController. Maybe post some code if you still can't figure it out.
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I'm not sure of the correct name, but I am wondering how to create (in Objective-C) a transparent notification "window/panel", such as is shown when you change the volume intensity, or keyboard illumination, or display brightness. I want to put my own icon/text on it, for my own notification.
I don't know the words to Google for, so I'm asking here.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Matt Gemmell's RoundedFloatingPanel component on his sample code page may do just what you're looking for.
After looking into using the solutions provided by the other two given answers, I found that they would not work for my purposes. So, I wrote up my own library:
BHBezelNotification
Growl is a widely-used implementation of this. By default, it doesn't look exactly like the system overlays, though it is skinnable - you probably want the Bezel notification:
See the Growl Developer Documentation for more.
http://imgur.com/3ZBCsDn
Can't post the image on the site but there it is.
I have been trying to find if this is a template or a separate nib file ala the page turn animation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
That is called a UIActionSheet. It is created entirely in code, so it's limited to some pretty simple stuff (i.e. a few buttons, one of which is the cancel button, and one of which can be marked "destructive"). Just consult the documentation for the UIActionSheet class; it tells you all there is to know about it.
Also, here's the discussion in my book:
http://www.apeth.com/iOSBook/ch26.html#_action_sheet
This is kind of a silly question, but I cannot find the answer as I don't know the terms with which to search for it.
I am looking for a simple way of giving a 'status' message like 'Data updated' to the user without necessarily interrupting what he/she is doing (but have a option I guess in some instances to tab it an perform an action).
For example; some Apps give a rounded square semi-transparent with 'Lock screen/rotation' when an iPhone is rotated, I am look for something similar (or like the square box 'Build Complete in Xcode 4').
Is there an easy way of doing this?
Thanks a million in advance!
https://github.com/myell0w/MTStatusBarOverlay
MTStatusBarOverlay adds very subtle text to the phone's status bar. If you're looking for something a little more noticiable, try:
https://github.com/jdg/MBProgressHUD
As #kubi has pointed out, MTStatusBarOverlay is a good one, and I've passed Apple reviewer inspection with it. However I just found something that looks fraking awesome...
Tweetbot-Like Alert Panels (Blog), and the repository is MKInfoPanelDemo at Github.
Create a view that shows your message nicely, add it to the window, and start a UIView animation which makes it fade away. In the animation ended handler (delegate or block) remove the view.
My iPhone app has a tabBar at the bottom.
The 5th tab is rarely used... but pretty memory-intensive... so I want to make it UNLOAD each time it is exited (by the user clicking on a different tab).
But how?
I thought I just needed to call "[self viewDidUnload]" but that doesn't seem to do it.
Where is the "forceThisViewToUnload" and where should I put it?
i think you can call didReceiveMemoryWarning but its bit hacky way :)
just make sure it's not referenced anywhere.
so remomve it from the view-stack, and if you own it, send it a release message.
I am wondering how Amazon did the highlight/note popup buttons in the Kindle app. After reading about UIPasteboard, UIMenuController, UIResponder, and UIResponderStandardEditActions, I am able to turn on or off standard edit actions (i.e. copy, cut, paste, select, and selectAll). However I haven't found a way to add a custom action yet. I would really appreciate it if I could get a pointer.
Thanks in advance!
Chris
(source: sampletheweb.com)
Edited by balexandre (added image instead link)
It looks like Amazon implemented their own custom view that mimicked the appearance of UIMenuController. I believe they did this rather than use SPI because if you click and hold on the Highlight cell, the arrow does not highlight, when it does in the real UIMenuController.
I don’t think there is a public interface to these controls, you’d probably have to code them yourself. (Or maybe figure out the private API, but that’s a slippery slope.) I am not sure about that, though, maybe somebody will prove me wrong.
That's a good point about the arrow part of the Notes/Highlight popup menu not highlighting, so they must be implementing their own.
However they are also obviously using a UIWebView, because it's recognizing tap and hold and they can highlight the text, and you can't get touch events from a UIWebView, much less get the information about what's selected. So how are they doing that?
This would be very useful for us to be able to do as well.
Use DTMenuController http://www.drobnik.com/touch/2010/01/dr-touchs-parts-store/
Costs 100 EUR ^_^
Custom menu items can be added via the UIMenuController's menuItems property. See Apple's UIMenuController docs.
the javascript part can be managed with jQuery, that's a fair simple and powerful library. i'm using it for resizing and rearranging things in a webview and it works great :)