UIScrollView - showing the scroll bar

Question

Hi all,

Possibly a simple one!

Does anyone know how to get the scroll bar of a UIScrollView to constantly show?

It displays when the user is scrolling, so they can see what position of the scroll view they are in.

BUT i would like it to constantly show because it is not immediately obvious to the user that scrolling is available

Any advice would be highly appreciated

Thanks!

Tom

Answer 1

No you cant make them always show, but you can make them temporarily flash.

[myView flashScrollIndicators];

They are scroll indicators, not scroll bars. You cant use them to scroll.

Answer 2

As far as I know, this isn't possible. The only API call which controls displaying the scroll indicator is showsVerticalScrollIndicator and that can only disable displaying the indicator altogether.

You could flashScrollIndicators when the view appears so that the user knows where in the scroll view they are.