UIButtons at the bottom of a UIScrollView are not receiving touches - iphone

I am writing an iPhone app with a tab bar and navigation bar. At a certain point, I am pushing an instance of my DetailsViewController class onto the navigation controller stack to show it.
This controller creates its view hierarchy in code: the controller's view property is set to a UIScrollView, which contains a plain UIView (let's call it "contentView") sized to hold all the content to be shown. At the bottom of this contentView, I have four UIButtons.
Now when I run the app (in the simulator at present), and scroll to the bottom of the view, the top two buttons respond to touches; the third responds to touches only in the top portion of it, and the lower button doesn't respond to touches at all. By clicking in various parts of the third button, it appears that the lower 93 pixels of the scroll view is not passing touch events through to its subviews.
93 is suspicious: it's also the combined height of the tab bar (49 pixels) and navigation bar (44 pixels). Yet the navigation bar and tab bar are outside the scroll view. Any suggestions why this might be happening?
Here's the code in question:
- (void)loadView
{
CGRect frame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
scrollView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
scrollView.delegate = self;
self.view = scrollView;
UIView *contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:scrollView.bounds];
contentView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
[scrollView addSubview:contentView];
CGSize viewSize = contentView.bounds.size;
CGSize size;
CGFloat y = 0;
/* Snip creating various labels and image views */
/* Actions view creates and lays out the four buttons; its sizeThatFits:
** method returns the frame size to contain the buttons */
actionsView = [[PropertyDetailActionsView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
actionsView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth);
actionsView.delegate = self;
size = [actionsView sizeThatFits:viewSize];
actionsView.frame = CGRectMake(0, y, size.width, size.height);
[contentView addSubview:actionsView];
y += size.height;
[contentView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, viewSize.width, y)];
scrollView.contentSize = contentView.frame.size;
[contentView release];
[scrollView release];
}

As I suggested on Twitter yesterday, it may have something to do with the flexible bottom margin set to the actionsView.
That suggestion did not resolve the problem, yet it lead to the right direction. By removing the flexible height of the contentView the problem has been fixed.
So if anyone out there is having similar problems, try to play with your autoresizingMasks.

also make sure all your content views are the height that covers the bottom button.
I make each view a different color to see them.

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ScrollView Detecting Scrolling Everywhere

I have a UIScrollView which is 208pt wide and 280pt tall that contains custom buttons that are 200pt wide and 280 pt tall with 8pt gaps between them. This scrollview has paging enabled but doesn't clip the subviews so that it always snaps to having one button centered but shows the other ones that go off screen. I am trying to make the field in which you can swipe through the buttons take up the full width of the screen, and I am trying to accomplish this with a secondary custom subclass of UIScrollView called PagingView which just has a UIScrollView property and passes all hits on it down to its scrollview. For whatever reason, though, when I try it without the paging view like this:
unsigned height = self.view.frame.size.height;
scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, height - 308, 208, 280)];
scrollView.pagingEnabled = true;
scrollView.clipsToBounds = false;
scrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false;
[self.view addSubview:scrollView];
It works, albeit with the field I can interact with the scrollview limited to its frame. However, when I try it with the scrollview:
unsigned height = self.view.frame.size.height;
pagingView = [[PagingView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, height - 308, 320, 280)];
scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(60, height - 308, 208, 280)];
scrollView.pagingEnabled = true;
scrollView.clipsToBounds = false;
scrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false;
pagingView.scrollView = scrollView;
[self.view addSubview:pagingView];
[self.view addSubview:scrollView];
It works, but I am able to swipe anywhere on the screen to move through the scrollview. How do I remedy this?
Not clear what you are doing here. You are adding two scroll views to self.view but actually you need only one.
The easiest way with least code is to use one plain UIScrollView, present your buttons as subviews of correctly sized UIViews (you need the gaps around the buttons), and enable paging for the scroll view. Done.
Please note that the measurements you describe do not work out. The scroll view width is 208, the button 200, so the wrapper view should have width 208 and the origin.x of the button should be 4. The scroll view height is 280, the button as well, so there is no vertical margin: wrapper height also 280, button origin.y is 0.

UITableView Not Allowing any Toolbars on the Bottom

I have a view controller that contains a UITableView. I'm trying to put the UITableView into a UITabBarController as one of the views. It wont work, nothing will show up on the bottom. If I put an iAd banner on the bottom, it doesn't show. The UITabBar will not show. I don't know what the problem is. I'm figuring that maybe the UITableView is going somehow over the UITabBar, but I really have no clue. I tried making it shorter, but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated. Also, I'm doing this using UIStoryboards, mainly. I'm not sure what code is relevant here, so please just tell me if you need to see any. Thanks in advance,
-Sam
I went through what you're going through - I'm also using storyboards. I don't remember where I found this snippet but it has worked well for me. Credit should go to the guy who wrote it originally.
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
//Initialize the toolbar
toolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] init];
toolbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleDefault;
//Set the toolbar to fit the width of the app.
[toolbar sizeToFit];
//Caclulate the height of the toolbar CGFloat
CGFloat toolbarHeight = [toolbar frame].size.height;
//Get the bounds of the parent view
CGRect rootViewBounds = self.parentViewController.view.bounds;
//Get the height of the parent view.
CGFloat rootViewHeight = CGRectGetHeight(rootViewBounds);
//Get the width of the parent view,
CGFloat rootViewWidth = CGRectGetWidth(rootViewBounds);
//Create a rectangle for the toolbar
CGRect rectArea = CGRectMake(0, rootViewHeight - toolbarHeight, rootViewWidth, toolbarHeight);
//Reposition and resize the receiver
[toolbar setFrame:rectArea];
// add buttons (make sure you create your buttons)
//[toolbar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:trashButtonItem, leftSpaceButtonItem, cameraButtonItem, rightSpaceButtonItem, addButtonItem, nil]];
//Add the toolbar as a subview to the navigation controller.
[self.navigationController.view addSubview:toolbar];
}
You'll have to substitute the buttons with your own obviously.
You need to extend your class by UIViewController, not UITableViewController because that takes up your entire view.

Cannot interact with UIScrollView

Before you bash me for duplicate, please know that I have looked nearly every other method but none of them have helped. I have a long view in which I have a scroll view.
The view is 320 by 671. The scroll view has been linked to the outlet "scrollView" correctly.
The property "scrollView" has been properly declared and synthesised.
My code:
[scrollView setScrollEnabled: YES];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 671);
scrollView.clipsToBounds = YES;
scrollView.delegate = self; // I have adopted the delegate protocol in .h
So, my problem is that the view doesn't scroll, and the scroll bar doesn't even show up.
EDIT:
I resized the uiview to normal 320 by 460. I deleted the scroll view in xib and decided to add like this:
UIScrollView *scrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(self.view.center.x, self.view.center.y, 320, 460)];
[scrollView setScrollEnabled: YES];
scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 671);
scrollView.clipsToBounds = YES; scrollView.delegate = self;
[self.view addSubview: scrollView];
OK, now what happens is when I scroll the screen, the bar comes up and I can scroll around to change the bar's position, but the actual view doesn't scroll
You need set the ContentSize of UIScrollView to the size of your CONTENT.
Do not set "ContentSize" to the size of the view. The "Content Size" should tell the size of the content within the scroll view.
Your scrollview should be 320x460 and your scrollview.contentsize should be 320x671.
You must layout your subviews "outside" of the view in IB.
EDIT:
Your layout should look like this:
http://ge.tt/api/1/files/4qGbz2N/2/blob/x675
The textview is placed outside the views frame but inside the scrollview. The scrollviews content size should be set accordingly to fit all subviews. In this case yValue should be 550 + 128

Objective c - proper way to set subview frame so it will fill the screen

I have a viewController inside of a navigationController, the view controller has a tableview.
In viewDidLoad I set the tableview
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// init tableView
CGRect tableFrame = self.view.bounds;
_tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:tableFrame style:UITableViewStylePlain];
_tableView.delegate = self;
_tableView.dataSource = self;
[self.view addSubview:_tableView];
}
The problem with this code is that the table view frame is not correct - the height is 460 and I need it to be 416.
[The iPhone screen height is 480, minus the status bar (20) minus the navigation bar (44) = 416]
So what is the proper way to set the table view so it will fill the screen?
I can think of two ways:
set its frame to = (0, 0, 320, 416)
use: [_tableView setAutoresizingMask:(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth)];
Don't use magic numbers. Use the resizing flags correctly.
So yes, your 2. approach is correct.
1) Use the superviews bounds._tableView.frame = self.view.bounds;;
2) Set autoresizing flags [_tableView setAutoresizingMask: UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth];
(you did all of this already :)
Number 1 is absolutely the wrong way to do it... what happens if the screen size changes in a future OS / device?
I'm curious why you're not doing this using a nib file, and saving yourself the trouble, but if you must do it in code, set the auto-resizing mask per your option 2.

UINavigationItem centering the title

I have a navigationBar with both Left and Right bar buttons on each side. I have a customTitlelabel which I set as the titleView of the UINavigationItem.
[self.navigationItem setTitleView:customTitleLabel];
All is fine now. The problem, the size of the rightbarButton is dynamic based on the input I get in one of the text fields.
Therefore the title is automatically centered based on the available space between the buttons.
how can i set the title to a fixed position?
Setting the titleView property of the nav bar works just fine - no need to subclass or alter any frames other than those of your custom view.
The trick to getting it centered relative to the overall width of UINavigationBar is to:
set the width of your view according to the size of the text
set the alignment to centered and
set the autoresizingmask so it gets resized to the available space
Here's some example code that creates a custom titleView with a label which remains centred in UINavigationBar irrespective of orientation, left or right barbutton width:
self.title = #"My Centered Nav Title";
// Init views with rects with height and y pos
CGFloat titleHeight = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height;
UIView *titleView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
UILabel *titleLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
// Set font for sizing width
titleLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.f];
// Set the width of the views according to the text size
CGFloat desiredWidth = [self.title sizeWithFont:titleLabel.font
constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake([[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame].size.width, titleLabel.frame.size.height)
lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeCharacterWrap].width;
CGRect frame;
frame = titleLabel.frame;
frame.size.height = titleHeight;
frame.size.width = desiredWidth;
titleLabel.frame = frame;
frame = titleView.frame;
frame.size.height = titleHeight;
frame.size.width = desiredWidth;
titleView.frame = frame;
// Ensure text is on one line, centered and truncates if the bounds are restricted
titleLabel.numberOfLines = 1;
titleLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeTailTruncation;
titleLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
// Use autoresizing to restrict the bounds to the area that the titleview allows
titleView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin;
titleView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;
titleLabel.autoresizingMask = titleView.autoresizingMask;
// Set the text
titleLabel.text = self.title;
// Add as the nav bar's titleview
[titleView addSubview:titleLabel];
self.navigationItem.titleView = titleView;
You can't do what you want directly -- the position of your title view is out of your control (when managed by UINavigationBar).
However, there are at least two strategies to get the effect you want:
1) Add the title view not as the 'proper' title view of the nav bar, but as a subview of the UINavigationBar. (Note: this is not 'officially' sanctioned, but I've seen it done, and work. Obviously you have to watch out for your title label overwriting bits of the buttons, and handle different size nav bars for different orientations, etc. -- a bit fiddly.)
2) Make an intelligent UIView subclass that displays a given subview (which would be your UILabel) at a position calculated to effectively show the subview perfectly centered on the screen. In order to do this, your intelligent UIView subclass would respond to layout events (or frame property changes etc.) by changing the position (frame) of the label subview.
Personally, I like the idea of approach 2) the best.
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.title = ""
}
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
navigationItem.title = "Make peace soon"
}
The right answer is to override sizeThatFits: of your custom titleView and return its content size. Navigation bar centers custom title view until it has no space left to do that.
For example if you have UIView container with UILabel inside:
#interface CustomTitleView : UIView
#property UILabel* textLabel;
#end
#implementation CustomTitleView
- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
CGSize textSize = [self.textLabel sizeThatFits:size];
CGSize contentSize = size;
contentSize.width = MIN( size.width, textSize.width );
return contentSize;
}
#end
I tried aopsfan's answer but it didn't work. A breakpoint revealed that the bar's center was "(480.0, 22.0)" (The X coordinate way off) .
So I changed it into this:
- (void)layoutSubviews
{
[super layoutSubviews];
// Center Title View
UINavigationItem* item = [self topItem]; // (Current navigation item)
[item.titleView setCenter:CGPointMake(160.0, 22.0)];
// (...Hard-coded; Assuming portrait iPhone/iPod touch)
}
...and it works like a charm. The slide/fade effect when pushing view controllers is intact. (iOS 5.0)
I had similar problem.
My solution is do hide the original back button, add add your own implementation. Since the system will reserve space for the left items.
UIImage* cancelIcon = [UIImage imageNamed:#"ic_clear"];
UIBarButtonItem* cancelButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:cancelIcon style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(back:)];
and the selector is simple
- (void)back:(UIButton *) sender
{
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
now it looks like this:
oh...and don't forget to use autolayout in your custom title view if you have dynamic length content like label in it. I add an additional layout in the customview to give it like "wrap_content" in Android by setting it centered to parent , and leading and trailing space ">=" 0
I had a similar situation where a titleView should be centered in UINavigationBar. I like occulus's approach of subclassing a UIView and overriding setFrame:. Then, I can center the frame inside the dimensions of UINavigationBar.
In the UIView subclass:
-(void)setFrame:(CGRect)frame{
super.frame = CGRectMake(320 / 2 - 50, 44 / 2 - 15, 100, 30);
}
The UIView subclass can then be assigned normally to titleView for each navigationItem. The developer does not have to programmatically add and remove special subviews from UINavigationBar.