bigger UISlider ok but tracking zone problem - iphone

My goal is to create a bigger UISlider with 35 pixels height for the thumb image.
I subclassed UISlider and added the method :
- (CGRect)trackRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds
{
return CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x, bounds.origin.y, self.bounds.size.width, 50);
}
Then I set the thum image from my controller using setThumbImage:
My bigger thumb is well displayed.
The problem I have is that the tracking zone is still the same around 19 px height, how to extend it to 50 ?
Thanks
T.

A long-standing problem with the iPhone OS' UISlider control is that you can't make it taller. More specifically, you can make it look taller by specifying taller images for its thumb and track, but the touch area stays as a tiny 23px tall.
Michael Patricios has published a way to make the default sliders a lot easier to touch, and a variation of that technique can handle larger sliders. What you need to do is subclass UISlider, and override pointInside in your class:
// How many extra touchable pixels you want above and below the 23px slider
#define SIZE_EXTENSION_Y 10
- (BOOL) pointInside:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent*)event {
CGRect bounds = self.bounds;
bounds = CGRectInset(bounds, 0, SIZE_EXTENSION_Y);
return CGRectContainsPoint(bounds, point);
}
In Interface Builder, set the slider to use your new UISlider subclass, and you now have a slider with a 43px touchable height.

I'm using this solution :)
CGRect sliderFrame = self.mySlider.frame;
sliderFrame.size.height = 142.0;
[self.mySlider setFrame:sliderFrame];

Increase UISlider thumb hit area by increasing the height of the UISlider frame. This approach avoids any offset and subsequent need to correct the slider frame.
- (void)viewDidLoad{
[super viewDidLoad];
//expand slider hit area
self.slider.frame = CGRectInset(self.slider.frame, 0, -10);
}

I believe that you may want to look at thumbRectForBounds:trackRect:value:

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How to zoom when scroll UIScrollView

I add few labels in UIScrollView and I want when I scroll, the the middle label font size can become bigger. And the previous middle label font size shrinks to smaller. And the change happens gradually. Like below. Label 1 move to left shrink smaller and label 2 move to middle becomes bigger. All labels in a UIScroll view.
I tried some, like when scroll I tried zoom scroll page, seems complex than I thought...
Anyone has good idea? Thanks!
Pretty simple really. Just stick a UIScrollViewDelegate to the scrollview and do something like this..
-(void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
for (int i = 0; i < [scrollView.subviews count]; i++) {
UIView *v = [scrollView.subviews objectAtIndex:i];
float position = v.center.x - scrollView.contentOffset.x;
float offset = 2.0 - (abs(scrollView.center.x - position) * 1.0) / scrollView.center.x;
v.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
v.transform = CGAffineTransformScale(v.transform, offset, offset);
}
}
But, if you aren't impressed by the affine transform, you could still scale the rect using the offset factor and set the UILabel to adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth... and you are done!
Just make sure there is enough space! Else it could get out of hand very easily.
Assumptions :
There are no other views in the scrollview apart from these labels.
Its required to work just horizontally.
It could be done with CoreAnimation. You have to keep the index of the main label (that one in the center), and after scrolling is done or when scrolling starts (use some proper for you method in UIScrollViewDelegate) and simply shrink side labels by animation.
Just make the size of the font bigger (with an animation block) when it is the middle one, and smaller when it is not.
You can add a category to UILabel with -(BOOL)isMiddle and set it to true/false.

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.

How do you zoom a UIScrollView's content to fit

My UIScrollView on the iPhone is 480x230 and the content is 972x230 when first displayed. I need to provide functionality where when the user double taps the UIScrollView the contents zoom to fit with the 480x230 UIScrollView proportionally. When the double tap it again it should zoom back out to it's original size.
What is the best way to do this? I have been fumbling for several hours with this and thought that this would work...
[bodyClockScrollView zoomToRect:bodyClockScrollView.frame animated:YES];
But nothing seems to happen.
Thanks, any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
You need to make sure the class you've set up as the scrollview's delegate implements this method:
-(UIView *) viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return someView;
}
Using CGAffineTransform I figured out a way to do what I want...
//bodyCleckScrollView contains a UIView name bodyClock
//get the scale factor required to fit bodyClock inside the iPhone window and resize it...
CGFloat scale = 480/bodyClockScrollView.contentSize.width;
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformScale(bodyClock.transform, scale, scale);
//move bodyClock to the bottom of bodyScrollView.
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(bodyClock.transform, 0.0,bodyClockScrollView.frame.size.height-bodyClock.frame.size.height);
//scoll bodyScrollView so that bodyClock is centered in the window
CGPoint offsetPoint = CGPointMake(bodyClock.frame.origin.x, 0.0);
[bodyClockScrollView setContentOffset:offsetPoint animated:YES];
This works great and when I want to zoom it back out to the default size and position you simply call...
bodyClock.transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;

UISlider won't work when it becomes a subview of a UIView other self.view

When I add my slider as subview of any view besides self.view it does not work (doesn't slide) but it works fine when it is a subview of self.view. You can see it on the other views besides self.view but it doesn't work.
Here is my code:
alphaSlider = [[UISlider alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 90, 10)];
[alphaSlider setMinimumValue:0.01];
[alphaSlider setMaximumValue:1];
[alphaSlider setValue:0.5];
[alphaSlider setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
[alphaSlider addTarget:self action:#selector(alphaSliderDidChange:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
alphaSlider.continuous = YES;
[submenu addSubview:alphaSlider];
Any way to fix this?
It may be that submenu is not enabled for user interaction.
[submenu setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
Another possibility is that the slider's frame is outside of submenu.frame
Since the clipsToBounds property of UIViews is by default NO, the slider would not be clipped despite being outside of submenu's frame. This means that submenu's frame doesn't cover the slider, and there's no way to pass touch events from submenu to submenu's slider. Set the background color of submenu and confirm that the slider is positioned entirely in submenu's frame.
[submenu setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
Submenu's frame might be something like (0, 0, 0, 0).
Include
NSLog(#"%f, %f, %f, %f", submenu.frame.origin.x, submenu.frame.origin.y, submenu.frame.size.width, submenu.frame.size.height);
You could also do
[submenu setClipsToBounds:YES];
and if the slider disappears, then submenu's frame is bad.
Check that the frame height of the slider is not too small to allow interaction. 10 pt is probably too small.
Starting in iOS 8, my sliders also stopped working.
In the past, the frame height of UIViews like UISlider, UISwitch, and UIPickerView has been fixed to some pre-defined value. You could set the frame height, but it would be ignored. Instead of trying to remember, "What is the height of a UISlider in Landscape on the iPad/iPhone?", I had been setting the height to 0 and let the OS assign the default value.
David Braun's answer led me to realize that my UISlider frames had height 0 which disabled user interaction.
I had a similar problem, where the slider did not have the horizontal line, just the white button and did not respond at all.
Based on the above I realized, that my sliders were wider than my safe area. Set some constraints on the 2 sides, and now it works just fine.

How can I redraw zoomed text on a transformed UIView?

I'm currently implementing an expanding timeline. When I pinch zoom into the timeline, I need my drawn text to stay at the same relative locations on the UIView they're drawn on inside the UIScrollView that handles the zooming. (Essentially like pins on GoogleMaps) However, I don't want to zoom vertically, so I apply a transform by overriding:
- (void)setTransform:(CGAffineTransform)newValue;
{
newValue.d = 1.0;
[super setTransform:newValue];
}
This works great in keeping the timeline fixed vertically and allowing it to expand horizontally. However, I am drawing my text labels as such in a method called during setNeedsDisplay:
for (int i = 1; i < 11; i++)
{
CGRect newFrame = CGRectMake(i * (512.0/11.0) - (512.0/11.0/2.0), self.frame.size.height - 16.0, 512.0/11.0, 32.0);
NSString *label = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", i+1];
[label drawInRect:newFrame withFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0]];
}
This draws my text at the correct position in the scrollview, and nearly works perfectly. However, because of my transform to keep the zooming view static vertically, the text expands horizontally and not vertically, and so stretches out horribly. I can't seem to get the text to redraw at the correct aspect ratio. Using UILabels works, however I am going to be rendering and manipulating upwards of 1,000 such labels, so I'd preferably like to draw static images in drawRect or something similar.
I've tried changing the CGRect I'm drawing the text in (was worth a shot), and applying CGAffineTransformIdentity isn't possible because I'm already transforming the view to keep it from zooming vertically. I've also tried drawing the text in various Views to no avail, and again, I'd rather not populate an obscene amount of objects if I can avoid it.
Thanks for any help!
Instead of applying a transform inside the 'setTransform:' method, I intercepts the scale at which it is being transformed, and resize the frame of the view being transformed. The code (roughly) follows:
- (void)setTransform:(CGAffineTransform)newValue;
{
// The 'a' value of the transform is the transform's new scale of the view, which is reset after the zooming action completes
// newZoomScale should therefore be kept while zooming, and then zoomScale should be updated upon completion
_newZoomScale = _zoomScale * newValue.a;
if (_newZoomScale < 1.0)
_newZoomScale = 1.0;
// Resize self
self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x, self.frame.origin.y, _originalFrame.size.width * _newZoomScale, self.frame.size.height);
}
As mentioned in the comments, the transform value of the CGAffineTransform is reset each time a new zooming action occurs (however, it is kept for the duration of the zooming action). So, I keep two instance variables in my UIView subclass (not sure if it's incredibly elegant, but it's not insanely terrible): the original frame the the view was instantiated with, and the "current" zoom scale of the view (prior to the current zooming action).
The _originalFrame is what is referenced in order to determine the proper sizing of the now zoomed frame, and the _zoomScale(the scale of the view prior to the current zooming action) is set to the value of _newZoomScale when the didFinishZooming callback is called in the UIScrollView containing this UIView.
All of this allows for the coordinate system of the UIView to not be transformed during zooming, so text, etc. may be drawn on the view without any distortion. Looking back at this solution, I'd wager a guess that you could also account for the transform and draw based on a stretched coordinate system. Not sure which is more effective. I had a slight concern by not calling super in setTransform:, but I haven't noticed any ill effects after about 6 months of use and development.