Client wants some tricky stuff and i don't really know where to start with it.
The idea is that there is a horizontal scrollView whose each page consists of a vertical scrollView.
For example, on the horizontal axis there are galleries, on the vertical we scroll through selected gallery's images. Is this even possible?
I'd be very glad to hear comments on this one!
You will have to manage the state yourself. When one scrollbar is selected the other has to be disabled and vice versa. You can also disable the user scrolling and handle the swiping yourself with the touch events. (on a clearColor UIView as a topmost view).
They all works magically, there's no additional work for this unless there's an issue about memory consumption which will require more coding.
Simply, create a horizontal scroll view then add vertical scroll views into it. Don't forget to update the contentSize property.
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I have a paged scroll view in my app and it works almost perfectly... Usually one page looks like this:
There is no content below this, but when i move it as if it should scroll down (clicking and swiping upwards) it stops moving at this stage:
It's as if its decided that that is an acceptable page loaction or something. If i drag it part way up it snaps the rest of the way up, and if i drag it part way down it snaps all the way down.
Why is it considering this an acceptable place to stop? Is there an easy property to set im missing? Or is there a way to allow only horizontal scrolling?
Thanks
Check the contentSize property of the scroll view. That determines how far it will scroll, and you can manually set it to control exactly where it will scroll to.
Is the scroll view on 0,0 on the canvas? It looks like it is not actually centered on the screen.
I know that I asked a question a few minutes ago, but I want to make a few points clearer before asking for the community's help. I'm new to iOS development, close to finishing my first app. The only thing standing in my way is this UIScrollView. I simply do not understand it, and could use your help.
This is in the detail view controller of a drill-down app with a tab bar. I have approximately 8 fields (for things like phone numbers and such) drawing from a .plist. Obviously, those take up enough room that I could use a little extra real estate. I would guess that it needs to be about the size of two views vertically, but I do not understand how to allocate that sort of space to a UIScrollView. Some tutorials I have read say that you don't even need to define it in the header, which I doubt and do not understand. Additionally, I do not understand how to simply get the app to smoothly scroll up-and down only. Apple's examples have constant move cycles that flip between horizontal pictures.
I doubt it makes very much a difference, but I have an image that is in the background. I'm going to load the view on top of that.
My question is broad, so I don't expect you to take the time to sit down and write out all of the code for me (and I wouldn't ask you to). Just an outline of quick, helpful tips would help me understand how to get this view to load in the context of my project.
Many thanks!
It's fairly simple. Add a UIScrollView to your view. Add your fields and such to the scrollview. In viewDidLoad or somewhere similar, you need to set the contentSize on your scrollview. This is the "virtual" area that will be scrollable. This will generally be larger than the frame of the scrollview. In your case, you indicated it should be roughly double the width.
For instance, if you had a scrollview with a view inside, and you wanted to make sure the entire view is visible via scrolling:
self.scrollView.contentSize = self.contentView.frame.size;
//setting scrollview zoom level
self._scrollview.minimumZoomScale=0.5;
self._scrollview.maximumZoomScale=6.0;
self._scrollview.contentSize=CGSizeMake(320,500 );
you have to outlet scroll view in .h class and #property #synthesis this scroll view.then you can able to scroll up and down,if u want only vertical scrolling ,then u have to go to interface builder and uncheck the horizontal scrolling.
You can set a few settings for your scrollview to limit the scrolling to horizontal or vertical. A few important ones are:
// pseudcode here, start typing "[scrollView " then press escape to get a intelli-sense of all // the things you can set for the scrollview.
// values could be YES/NO or TRUE/FALSE, I can't remember which one but
// I think it's YES/NO. Once you start scrolling, the phone will determine
// which way you're scrolling then lock it to that direction
[scrollView setDirectionalLockEnabled:YES];
// when you slide the view, if enough of the next part of the view is visible,
// the scrollview will snap or bounce the scrollview to fit this new "page".
// think of swiping feature to navigate the iPhone home screens
// to show different "pages" of iphone apps
[scrollView setPagingEnabled:YES];
// as a safe guard, make sure the width of your scrollview fits snuggly with the content
// it is trying to display. If the width is more than necessary to display your table of
// data vertically, sometimes the scrollview will cause the
// horizontal scrolling that you don't want to happen and you get bi-directional scrolling
Just set the content size of UIScrollView after adding all the controls/button/textfields etc. for example you add 10 textfields in UIScrollview then content size of UIScrollView will be
lastTextField.frame.origin.y+lastTextField.frame.size.height+20; 20 is for margin.
That's it let me know if you want to know something more related to your app.
I'm developing my first iPhone app and I would greatly appreciate you guy's input on a problem I'm having.
I'm looking to implement scrolling both horizontally and vertically. I want the horizontal scrolling to be paged, without the vertical one being paged (scrolling "normally"). A single UIScrollView with pagingEnabled set to YES will page in both directions. The natural solution would be to nest a UIScrollView inside another one, however when I do that, I can't get the "inner" UIScrollView to scroll at all. Seems the outer one is "eating" up all the tap events, like in:
UIScrollView : paging horizontally, scrolling vertically?
I read something about "inner scrolling" being improved upon in SDK 3.0 and actually when I add an inner UITableView instead of a UIScrollView the scrolling works flawlessly. Since UITableView subclasses UIScrollView I imagine that my desired behavior should be achievable by making my own subclass of UIScrollView.
Is this the right approach? If so, what should this subclass look like?
This works out of the box with the SDK now. See Scrolling Madness and Apple's UIPageControl sample for guidelines on how to implement paged horizontal scrolling with a view controller for each page.
The nested UIScrollViews you add as subviews to your outer UIScrollView should have the same frame heights as the container. If you do this then the outer UIScrollView will pass through the vertical scrolling events to the subview. My app has three levels of UIScrollView and UIWebView nesting and I've found Cocoa is really intelligent about passing the events to the one I want as long as I set my frame sizes so that only one view is really scrollable (contentSize > frame) on each axis.
If you are trying something like Twitter profile UI I achieved this by putting header view and bottom scrollview in a a parent scrollview and underlaying another scrollview behind.
Underlaying scrollview is responsible for the adjusting content offsets of header and bottom. Its contentsize is also adjusted by the inner item heights.
It looks complicated when I tell, better see the code
https://github.com/OfTheWolf/Twitterprofile
I've been using this great lib by Andrey Tarantsov for months: SoloComponents
You can use it as an "horizontal UITableView" with support for pagination and view recycling.
Well made and perfectly cocoa-style designed.
Based on Dylan's answer, in my case, I actually also had to make content size heights equal for both parent and nested UIScrollViews to make nested UIScrollView to scroll vertically. Making only "the same frame heights as the container" as Dylan explained was not enough:
parentScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(parentScrollView.contentSize.width, desiredContentHeight);
nestedScrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(nestedScrollView.frame.size.width, desiredContentHeight);
What Dylan says. And, perhaps of interest on this topic - you do not need to enable scrolling in the master "paging" UIScrollView, just enable paging and direction lock. This seems to assure that all vertical scrolling cues go to the nested, fixed-size, vertical-scrolling NSScrollViews. It works back to at least iOS 9.
I would like to be able to build a scroll view capable of scrolling an unbounded (infinite) distance (this is question number one, how to do this with the contentSize property). The reason for this is so that I can implement a scrolling calendar view, which the user can use to scroll through time along a single axis.
Now, I need to put a view/s in there to mark the dates as they scroll by. My second question is how to implement a view like this in a scroll view. I could have a long view, 3 or 4 times wider than the scrollview frame and just reposition and update that every time the scrolling stops, faking a continuous bar. Any other ideas?
Thanks!
I know it's been a while since you posted this question, but just for future reference:
At WWDC 2011, Apple gave a great presentation called "Session 104 - Advanced Scroll View Techniques". The video can be seen from developer.apple.com or from iTunes.
The main concept:
1 - Start off with a subview that is larger than your scrollView's bounds.
2 - In -layoutSubViews from the scrollView, you check whether the contentOffset in the direction you want to scroll infinitely is past some threshold that you specify (this doesn't have to be any specific value, it could be 1 point in the extreme).
3 - If this is the case, you reset the contentOffset to zero, and you adjust the subview's frame by the same amount.
These last two steps happen within the same run loop cycle, hence the transition will not be visible. Beware that the scrollBar will jump, though. But as your scrollView is infinite, there is no visual feedback the scrollBars could give, anyway, so you'd better hide them when you've finished implementing this.
Not sure it can be... You could try CGSizeZero
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIScrollView_Class/Reference/UIScrollView.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIScrollView/contentSize
contentSize
The size of the content view. #property(nonatomic) CGSize contentSize Discussion
The unit of size is points. The default size is CGSizeZero.
The real question is do you truely want "infinate" or do you want mostly infinate and just make the view ungodly large? Or do you want auto-resizing.
Also a continuous bar for an infinite scrollview? The bar would never move as it wouldn't get any closer to the beginning or the end... You could make a bar that dragging to the right would go into the future and dragging it to the left would go back and then just always reposition it in the center.... Other then that I dunno what would make sense here.
Looping UIScrollView Horizontally sounds like the same sort of problem, hopefully my comments there might give you some ideas as well.
Making an 'infinite' scrollview doesn't work - the memory requirements get way too large. The best way to do it is fake it.
3 screen scrollview:
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Make a scrollview that is 3 times as large as one screen, then when the user finishes scrolling to the next third of the scrollview, move the scroll position back to the center third and scoot the content over to the left. This happens so fast that there is no visible feedback to the user that the scrollview & content was just recentered.
Similarly, when the user scrolls back to the first third, change the scroll position to the center third and move all the content to the right.
For memory management, you should only load as much content as will fit onto those three screens. When you scroll to the next third, you'll reposition, and load the next screen of content.
I'm working on an iPhone game, and trying to use a UIScrollView to display some icons, which I then want to enable the user to drag off the bar being scrolled, onto another view (basically, dragging them from their hand into play on the game board). The problem is that the UIScrollView clips everything outside it's own bounds.
Here is a picture of what I'm trying to do:
Functionally, it actually works, in that you can drag the icons up to the white board fine...but you can't see them as you are dragging...which is not acceptable.
Does anyone know if you can temporarily disable the clipping that a scroll view does, or is there some way to get around it? Hacky or not, I would really like to make it happen.
Does anyone have any other possible solutions for this? Or maybe any alternate approaches? I've considered if maybe a page view might work, but haven't tried it yet...and it's not at all as good of a solution as the scroll view.
Worst case I can just go back to not having the bar scrollable, but that really puts a damper on some of my game mechanics, and I'm really not too excited about that.
I think you're looking for the clipsToBounds property of UIView. I've used it successfully with UIScrollView:
scrollView.clipsToBounds = NO;
However, the dragging you want to do from the scroll view to the game view may require you to remove the icon view from the scroll view, place it in the superview at a position corresponding to its visible position within the scroll view (calculated using the scroll view's origin and content offset), and have that track the user's finger movements. On a release of the touch, either drop it on the game view at the proper position or return it to the scroll view.
I'm not 100% sure I understand the question but I think you should look into the z order of the scrollview and the whiteboard. It may be that the drag is just going behind the whiteboard.
Failing that, it would be useful to see all the bounds of your view heirarchy.
I also think a better solution allround might be to create a "sprite" to animate underneath the players finger - you could offset the drawpoint of the sprite from the touchlocation so that the player can see what they are dragging.