Resizing UINavigationBar on rotation - iphone

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

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Scrolling, zooming UIScrollView and interface orientation rotation. How to use autoresize and more

This should be a pretty common thing to do, but I haven't been able to get it to work exactly right.
I have rectangular content. It normally fits in 320x361: portrait mode minus status bar minus ad minus tab bar.
I have put that content in a UIScrollView and enabled zooming. I also want interface rotation to work. The content will always be a tall rectangle, but when zoomed users might want to see more width at a time and less height.
What do I need to do in Interface Builder and code to get this done? How should I set my autoresizing on the different views? How do I set my contentSize and contentInsets?
I have tried a ton of different ways and nothing works exactly right. In various of my solutions, I've had problems with after some combination of zooming, interface rotation, and maybe scrolling, it's no longer possible to scroll to the entire content on the screen. Before you can see the edge of the content, the scroll view springs you back.
The way I'm doing it now is about 80% right. That is, out of 10 things it should do, it does 8 of them. The two things it does wrong are:
When zoomed in portrait mode, you can scroll past the edge of the content, and see a black background. That's not too much to complain about. At least you can see all the content. In landscape mode, zoomed or not, seeing the black background past the edge is normal, since the content doesn't have enough width to fill the screen at 1:1 zoom level (the minimum).
I am still getting content stuck off the edge when it runs on a test device running iOS 3.0, but it works on mine running 4.x. -- Actually that was with the previous solution. My tester hasn't tried the latest solution.
Here is the solution I'm currently using. To summarize, I have made the scroll view as wide and tall as it needs to be for either orientation, since I've found resizing it either manually or automatically adds complexity and is fragile.
View hierarchy:
view
scrollView
scrollableArea
content
ad
view is 320x411 and has all the autoresizing options on, so conforms to screen shape
scrollView is 480 x 361, starts at origin -80,0, and locks to top only and disables stretching
scrollableArea is 480 x 361 and locks to left and top. Since scrollView disables stretching, the autoresizing masks for its subviews don't matter, but I tell you anyway.
content is 320x361, starts at origin 80,0, and locks to top
I am setting scrollView.contentSize to 480x361.
shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation supports all orientations except portrait upside down.
In didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation, I am setting a bottom content inset of 160 if the orientation is landscape, resetting to 0 if not. I am setting left and right indicator insets of 80 each if the orientation is portrait, resetting if not.
scrollView.minimumZoomScale = 1.0
scrollView.maximumZoomScale = 2.0
viewForZoomingInScrollView returns scrollableArea
// in IB it would be all options activated
scrollView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
scrollView.contentSize = content.frame.size; // or bounds, try both
what do you mean with scrollableArea?
your minZoomScale is set to 1.0 thats fine for portrait mode but not for landscape. Because in landscape your height is smaller than in portrait you need to have a value smaller than 1.0. For me I use this implementation and call it every time, the frame of the scrollView did change:
- (void)setMaxMinZoomScalesForCurrentBounds {
CGSize boundsSize = self.bounds.size; // self is a UIScrollView here
CGSize contentSize = content.bounds.size;
CGFloat xScale = boundsSize.width / contentSize.width;
CGFloat yScale = boundsSize.height / contentSize.height;
CGFloat minScale = MIN(xScale, yScale);
if (self.zoomScale < minScale) {
[self setZoomScale:minScale animated:NO];
}
if (minScale<self.maximumZoomScale) self.minimumZoomScale = minScale;
//[self setZoomScale:minScale animated:YES];
}
- (void)setFrame:(CGRect)rect { // again, this class is a UIScrollView
[super setFrame:rect];
[self setMaxMinZoomScalesForCurrentBounds];
}
I don't think I understood the entire problem from your post, but here's an answer for what I did understand.
As far as I know (and worked with UIScrollView), the content inside a UIScrollView is not automatically autoresized along with the UIScrollView.
Consider the UIScrollView as a window/portal to another universe where your content is. When autoresizing the UIScrollView, you are only changing the shape/size of the viewing window... not the size of the content in the other universe.
However, if needed you can intercept the rotation event and manually change your content too (with animation so that it looks good).
For a correct autoresize, you should change the contentSize for the scrollView (so that it knows the size of your universe) but also change the size of UIView. I think this is why you were able to scroll and get that black content. Maybe you just updated the contentSize, but now the actuall content views.
Personally, I haven't encountered any case that required to resize the content along with the UIScrollView, but I hope this will get you started in the right direction.
If I understand correctly is that you want a scrollview with an image on it. It needs to be fullscreen to start with and you need to be able to zoom in. On top of that you want it to be able to rotate according to orientation.
Well I've been prototyping with this in the past and if all of the above is correct the following code should work for you.
I left a bit of a white area for the bars/custombars.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//first inits and allocs
scrollView2 = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"someImageName"]];
[scrollView2 addSubview:imageView];
[self drawContent]; //refreshing the content
[self.view addSubview:scrollView2];
}
-(void)drawContent
{
//this refreshes the screen to the right sizes and zoomscales.
[scrollView2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[scrollView2 setCanCancelContentTouches:NO];
scrollView2.clipsToBounds = YES;
[scrollView2 setDelegate:self];
scrollView2.indicatorStyle = UIScrollViewIndicatorStyleWhite;
[scrollView2 setContentSize:CGSizeMake(imageView.frame.size.width, imageView.frame.size.height)];
[scrollView2 setScrollEnabled:YES];
float minZoomScale;
float zoomHeight = imageView.frame.size.height / scrollView2.frame.size.height;
float zoomWidth = imageView.frame.size.width / scrollView2.frame.size.width;
if(zoomWidth > zoomHeight)
{
minZoomScale = 1.0 / zoomWidth;
}
else
{
minZoomScale = 1.0 / zoomHeight;
}
[scrollView2 setMinimumZoomScale:minZoomScale];
[scrollView2 setMaximumZoomScale:7.5];
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
if (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait || interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) {
// Portrait
//the 88pxls is the white area that is left for the navbar etc.
self.scrollView2.frame = CGRectMake(0, 88, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height - 88);
[self drawContent];
}
else {
// Landscape
//the 88pxls is the white area that is left for the navbar etc.
self.scrollView2.frame = CGRectMake(0, 88, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height, self.view.frame.size.width);
[self drawContent];
}
return YES;
}
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
return self.imageView;
}
I hope this will fix your troubles. If not leave a comment.
When you want to put a content (a UIView instance, let's call it theViewInstance ) in a UIScrollView and then scroll / zoom on theViewInstance , the way to do it is :
theViewInstance should be added as the subview of the UIScrollView
set a delegate to the UIScrollView instance and implement the selector to return the view that should be used for zooming / scrolling:
-(UIView*)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return theViewInstance;
}
Set the contentSize of the UIScrollView to the frame of the theViewInstance by default:
scrollView.contentSize=theViewInstance.frame.size;
(Additionally, the accepted zoom levels can be set in the UIScrollView :)
scrollView.minimumZoomScale=1.0;
scrollView.maximumZoomScale=3.0;
This is the way a pinch to zoom is achieved on a UIImage : a UIImageView is added to a UIScrollView and in the UIScrollViewDelegate implementation, the UIImageView is returned (as described here for instance).
For the rotation support, this is done in the UIViewController whose UIView contains the UIScrollView we just talked about.

touchesBegan after didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation

I noticed that after an orientation change from portrait to landscape, I'm not getting touchesBegan events for some parts of my view any longer. I suppose that this is because I'm not informing my UIView about the dimension change of my window's frame after the device rotation.
I'm setting up everything programmatically (UIWindow, UIViewController, UIView) like this:
myViewController = [[myUIViewController alloc] init];
myWindow = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame: rect];
myView = [[myUIView alloc] initWithFrame: [myWindow bounds]];
[myViewController setView:myView];
[myWindow addSubview:myView];
[myWindow setFrame:rect];
[myWindow makeKeyAndVisible];
When I get the didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation notification, I'm updating the window frame like this:
[[[self view] window] setFrame:rect];
But after that, my UIView does no longer get touchesXXX events for all areas. It seems that only the areas of the previous frame are still reporting events. So my question: Is there anything else I need to do in didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation to inform my UIView about the dimension change?
Thanks for help!
EDIT: Do I have to reposition the UIView on didRotateFromInterfaceOrientation() or is this done automatically? I noticed that the "transform" property of my UIView is set to a transformation matrix when the orientation changes. However, this makes it very hard to reposition my view. The docs say that the "frame" property can't be used when a transformation is active, so I tried to modify the "center" property to reposition my view, but this also doesn't work correctly. I want to move the view to the top-left corner, so I set "center" to (screenwidth/2,screenheight/2) but it doesn't position the view correctly :( Any idea or info what must be done to get the events right in orientation mode?
I have had this same problem, and I believe it is a frame issue.
I had to manually set the rects depending on orientation, as well as set the userInteractionEnabled on the main view, like:
if (appOrientation == 0)
appOrientation = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation;
if (appOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || appOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
myView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1024, 768);
} else {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
myView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024);
}
myView.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
OK I know this is an old question but this is how I fixed this issue.
In my situation I had a storyboard with a view that would be displayed either in portrait or forced to landscape mode depending on a user setting.
My app displays the statusBar at all times except for when I'm showing this view.
To make this all work, the transformations had to be applied in the viewWillAppear method for one. I had the following code in the viewDidAppear method at first and that messed with the bounds for the touchesBegan event I guess.
Here's the viewWillAppear code:
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
// Hide the status bar
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
// This is to offset the frame so that the view will take the fullscreen once the status bar is hidden
self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame = CGRectOffset(self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame, 0.0, -20.0);
// If view is to be displayed in landscape mode
if ([[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:#"orientation"])
{
// Change status bar orientation
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft];
// Turn the view 90 degrees
[self.navigationController.view setTransform:CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI/2)];
// Set the frame and the bounds for the view
// Please Note: Frame size has to be reversed for some reason.
[self.navigationController.view setFrame: CGRectMake(0,0,320,480)];
[self.navigationController.view setBounds: CGRectMake(0,0,480,320)];
// Make sure user can interact with view
[self.navigationController.view setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
}
}
Any other thing that had to happen layout wise, have to happen in the viewDidAppear method. For instance I had an image that covered the whole view and the frame had to be set depending on the orientation. Setting the frame in the viewWillAppear gave weird results but the same code worked perfectly in viewDidAppear.
Hope this helps someone as I banged my head for 6 hours on this thing.

UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal flips Vertically in Landscape

When in landscape, transitioning from one view (that's part of a Navigation Controller stack) to another as a modal view, with UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal set as the modalTransitionStyle, the view flips vertically in landscape mode.
Everything else about the look of the views is fine after the animation, though I did notice that the frame size of the views isn't changing which is causing issues in other places of my code as well. I figured if I fix whatever is making this particular flip vertical instead of horizontal, it will fix the other issue.
I assume it has something to do with the window itself not changing orientation, but I'm not sure that's it.
Anyone have any ideas?
Talked to an Apple Engineer at WWDC and figured out the UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal does not work in landscape, it will flip what looks like in vertical.
The other issue I mentioned was because I wasn't adapting a frame to the view correctly.
There is a solution for this if you use iOS7 custom view controller transition. The ViewController which initiates the transition should confirm to protocols an implement the following methods.
- (id <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)animationControllerForPresentedController: (UIViewController *)presented presentingController:(UIViewController *)presenting sourceController:(UIViewController *)source {
return (id<UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)self;
}
- (id <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)animationControllerForDismissedController:(UIViewController *)dismissed {
return (id<UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)self;
}
- (NSTimeInterval)transitionDuration:(id <UIViewControllerContextTransitioning>)transitionContext {
return 0.7f;
}
- (void)animateTransition:(id <UIViewControllerContextTransitioning>)transitionContext {
UIView *containerView = [transitionContext containerView];
UIViewController *fromVC = [transitionContext viewControllerForKey:UITransitionContextFromViewControllerKey];
[containerView addSubview:fromVC.view];
UIViewController *toVC = [transitionContext viewControllerForKey:UITransitionContextToViewControllerKey];
[containerView addSubview:toVC.view];
UIViewAnimationOptions animationOption;
if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad && UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(self.interfaceOrientation)) {
animationOption = ([toVC.presentedViewController isEqual:fromVC])?UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromTop:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromBottom;
}
else {
animationOption = ([toVC.presentedViewController isEqual:fromVC])?UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight;
}
[UIView transitionFromView:fromVC.view
toView:toVC.view
duration:[self transitionDuration:transitionContext]
options:animationOption
completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[transitionContext completeTransition:YES];
}];
}
The transitioning delegate of the modal ViewController to be displayed should be set like this:
[modalViewController setTransitioningDelegate:self];
For example this linke can be put in the prepareForSegue: method.
That's it.

UINavigationBar height and landscape mode

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);
}

Filling width in (iPhone) UIWebView landscape orientation?

I'm using a UIWebView with text in it. When the iPhone is rotated to landscape, text doesn't fill the now wider UIWebView width. I'm using P (paragraph) tags, which should not affect content filling landscape's width. The line breaks that are visible in portrait remain the same in landscape. In Interface Builder, I haven't changed anything. In the IB Inspector, Web View Size has all solid bars under AutoSizing, which means it should fill to the landscape width right?
Here is a tweak though not a good thing to do, and something should be handled by apple itself
As you've noticed that things workfine when WebView is initialized in portrait and then you turn it to landscape. So.. what you can do is always initialize your webview with portrait bounds, add a selector which calls back after 2~3 seconds and sets the frame of webView according to your requirement.
Now as the contents started loading when the frame size of your webview were according to portrait (say 320,460) so converting your webview to landscape will automatically adjust your web view if you have this line in your code
[webViewObjet_ setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight];
Below is the snippet of code
- (id) initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame])
{
webViewObjet_ = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460)];
.....
}
}
- (void) webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
.....
[self performSelector:#selector(chuss) withObject:nil afterDelay:3];
// call the function chuss after 3 second
}
- (void) chuss
{
webViewObjet_.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height);
[webViewObjet setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight];
}
Now tried around with the same problem, finally did it after looking detailed at "WhichWayIsUp"-Sample from Apple.
To keep it short:
1) Disable in the View Inspector the |--| and <-->
2) `switch the View Mode from the Webview to "Aspect Fill"
Et voila ;)
Keep the vibes,
Maniac
I have the same problem. Reloading does not work, the only thing that seems to help a bit is to add the following line to the code:
self.view.autoresizingMask =
UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
(I place it in the willAnimateFirstHalfOfRotationToInterfaceOrientation function)
It still keeps a small white margin at the right, but its far better than the default. Note: you should apply this on the self.view and not on the UIWebView instance, that won't work.
Waiting for a solution from Apple..
Pieter
This will sound strange, but it works:
If the UIWebView is inside a UINavigationController, it will all work just fine. I had the same problem, so I just wrapped it up in a UINavigationController and the problem was gone.
For some reason, UINavigationController makes rotations work like a charm.