I have created View A and View B. My window has View A displayed on the screen. I also have a UIButton on View A. I want to switch from View A to View B when I click on the Button. I am not using any UIViewController. Is it possible to switch the views without using controller?
I am calling buttonAction method on TOUCHUPINSIDE
The problem is that it doesn't do anything when I say
[ViewA removeFromSuperView];
What should I do now?
If viewB is not in the view hierarchy:
[[viewA superview] addSubview:viewB];
If viewB is in the view hierarchy:
[[viewA superview] bringSubviewToFront:viewB];
Once viewB is in the view hierarchy, then remove viewA:
[viewA removeFromSuperview];
Related
viewWillAppear is called both when going to the view and when coming back to the view from other views.
I want to select(highlight) and fade-out a cell only when coming back from other views.
Is there a delegate method to do this?
I'm using UINavigationViewController.
If you're on iOS 5, you can use these new properties:
These four methods can be used in a view controller's appearance
callbacks to determine if it is being presented, dismissed, or added
or removed as a child view controller. For example, a view controller
can check if it is disappearing because it was dismissed or popped
by asking itself in its viewWillDisappear: method by checking the
expression ([self isDismissing] || [self
isMovingFromParentViewController]).
- (BOOL)isBeingPresented __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_NA,__IPHONE_5_0);
- (BOOL)isBeingDismissed __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_NA,__IPHONE_5_0);
- (BOOL)isMovingToParentViewController __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_NA,__IPHONE_5_0);
- (BOOL)isMovingFromParentViewController __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING(__MAC_NA,__IPHONE_5_0);
In your code:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
if (!(self.isMovingToParentViewController || self.isBeingPresented))
{
// animate
}
}
EDIT:
If you're using a UITableViewController, setting the property -clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear to YES will do this for you. You only have to do it manually if you're using a regular UIViewController with a UITableView subview.
If you are targeting iOS 5, you can use [self isBeingPresented] and [self isBeingDismissed] to determine if the view controller is being added or removed from the nav controller.
I'm also suspecting that you could improve the logic of when you select/deselect the cell in your table view such that it doesn't matter whether the view controller is coming or going.
The usual way to do it is this: when someone selects a row in the table view in view controller A, it gets selected/highlighted and you push a new view controller B. When view controller B is dismissed, you animate the deselection of the table view row in viewDidAppear (so the user can see it fading out) in view controller A. You wouldn't worry about whether view controller A has just appeared or is re-appearing, because there would only be a selected table view cell in the appropriate case.
viewWillAppear is getting called when the view appears
after the viewDidLoad
after you dismiss or pull a view controller
You could change the viewWillAppear to the following
- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
static BOOL firstTime = YES;
if (!firstTime)
{
//Do your alpha animation
}
firstTime = NO;
}
In your UINav Controller you could create a "lastView" property and have each of your view controllers (that are controlled by your UINav Controller) set this property on "viewWillAppear"... in your target view... the one you want to do the highlighting and fading you could check this property of the UINav Controller and see if it's NIL or not.
That's just one way to do it. This wouldn't work if you pop up a modal or the like.
Is there a way to access the content view (shown as Custom content on the diagram) in order to change its frame?
Access to selected view controller's view in tab bar
UIView *view = tabBarController.selectedViewController.view;
Access to second view controller's view in tab bar
UIView *view2 = [(UIViewController*)[tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1] view];
In my Main Window IB file I have a TabBarController and the first controller is a Navigation Controller. When I push my detail view (after pressing a cell in a table view) I want to push my detail view and display a tool bar instead of the tab bar. The problem is that when I try
tabBar.hidden = visible;
in my detail view controller (viewDidLoad) the tabbar dissapears before the animation between the first view and the detail view is done.
What i want to achieve can be seen in the native photo app when pressing on one of the images from a gallery. There the tabbar moves out with the animation of the first view.
How do I achieve this?
Thanks in advance
check out the 'hidesBottomBarWhenPushed' property on your detail's page subclass of UIViewController
either override this method
- (BOOL)hidesBottomBarWhenPushed
{
return YES;
}
or i'm guessing this would work the same:
self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
as far as showing the toolbar try:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:NO animated:YES];
}
and on the way out
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}
I am using a UITabBar control from library in one of my view (note that I am not using UITabBarController but the UITabBar control).
Now, I am adding two tabBar items to this tabBar.
I have created controller class for this view (.m and .h) files and used delegates in the .h file.
In the .m file I have used the following function:
(void)tabBar:(UITabBar *)TabBarControl didSelectItem:(UITabBarItem *)FirstView
I have assigned tag = 0 and tag = 1 to respective tabBar items.
What I want to do is that, on click of first tabBar item I want to show a view and click of another tabBar item, I want to show another view.
So, in the above function I am checking that if the tag of clicked tabBar item is 0 than I will show one view else I will show another view.
I am showing the view as following:
Team1Scoreboard *tempTeam1Scoreboard = [Team1Scoreboard alloc];
tempTeam1Scoreboard = [tempTeam1Scoreboard initWithNibName:#"UserTeamScoreboard" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
self.cntrlTeam1Scoreboard = tempTeam1Scoreboard;
[tempTeam1Scoreboard release];
UIView *theWindow = [self.view superview];
[self.view removeFromSuperview];
[theWindow addSubview:self.cntrlTeam1Scoreboard.view];
Now the problem is that, when I click on any of the tabBar item, it will load the correct view but the tabBar itself will be disappeared as I am adding the view to window itself.
Please help me so that I can load correct view and also my tabBar itself is visible.
The TabBar is disappearing because it's a child of the view which you are then adding a new child to and the new child is sized the same as the parent. Did that make sense? Ok, look at it this way:
You have ViewA and ViewA has a couple of labels and a TabBar. ViewA is managed by ViewControllerA. In ViewControllerA you are creating an instance of ViewB and calling ViewControllerA.view addSubView:instanceOfViewB, right? Before doing that, you will want to resize ViewB.
Try something like this:
ViewControllerB *viewControllerB = [[ViewControllerB alloc]initWithNibName:#"ViewB" bundle:nil];
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(self.view.frame.origin.x,
self.view.frame.origin.y,
self.view.frame.size.width,
self.view.frame.size.height - 40);
viewControllerB.view.frame = frame;
[self.view addSubview:viewB.viewControllerB];
Basically it should be close to what you are doing, but I'm setting the size to be 40 px less (whatever you need to remove the tab bar).
I have seen the post for How to switch views by buttons on iPhone? but this doesn't answer how to switch back and forth between views with buttons. The person that asked the question settled on the answer that they could switch between views with uinavigationcontroller.
I put the following code in an ibaction that kicks off when a button is pressed in the primary view.
PhoneNumberViewController *phoneNumberViewController1 = [[PhoneNumberViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"PhoneNumberView2" bundle:nil];
self.phoneNumberViewController = phoneNumberViewController1;
[self.view removeFromSuperview];
[self.view insertSubview: phoneNumberViewController1.view atIndex:0];
When this code executes the whole view just goes blank. If I omit the removefromsuperview portion then the view disappears behind my button but the button still remains. I'm not sure if this is the right way to switch between buttons but if anyone knows how to do this please help. Also if anyone knows about any example projects that switch between views with buttons let me know.
Thanks a million!
You removed the view controller's view from it's superview and then added a subview to it. The view hierarchy is broken at the view controller's superview (likely your window). That is why you are getting a blank screen.
You'd likely want to keep a reference around to the original view and then swap it out to the new view by setting the view controller's view to the new view.
// origView is an instance variable/IBOutlet to your original view.
- (IBAction)switchToPhoneView:(id)sender {
if (origView == nil)
origView = self.view;
self.view = phoneViewController.view;
}
- (IBAction)switchToOriginalView:(id)sender {
self.view = origView;
}
The technique I usually use involves creating a superview class which contains a toolbar at the bottom, and a content view UIView class filling the rest of the screen.
I then add subviews to the content view to change the views based on button clicks. This approach makes it so the toolbar on the same is constant across all views. I start by defining a helper function like this:
-(void) clearContentView {
//helper to clear content view
for (UIView *view in [self.contentView subviews]){
[view removeFromSuperview];
}
}
My IBAction then looks like this:
-(IBAction) buttonClicked{
self.title = #"Images"; //change title of view
[self clearContentView]; //clear content view
[self.contentView addSubview:self.imagesViewController.view]; //add new view
[self.imagesViewController viewWillAppear:YES]; //make sure new view is updated
[self enableButtons]; //enable all other buttons on toolbar
self.imagesButton.enabled = NO; //disable currently selected button
}