iPhone Swapping out content of UIView/Sub view

Question

I'm trying to accomplish the following:

Swap out the content of a UIView or Subview using UIButtons or a toolbar. I have a view laid out like the illustration below. I want to swap out the content of the "UIView to swap" sub view by clicking on buttons or buttons on a toolbar. So you click button 1 and a view is loaded into the "UIView to swap". Does this make sense? Can anyone suggest any tutorials? I know how to do this with images, but I want to swap more complicated views.

Answer 1

You can do this very easily. Here's what I'd do:

1) Create a UIView to hold the swapped views. It should be the size of and in the location of UIView to swap in your picture. I will refer to it as container.

2) Construct your four UIViews that you want to swap between. Put them in an NSArray. I'll call it viewArray

3) Hook your buttons up to an IBAction method. This method should figure out the index of the button pushed (by name or tag), remove all of container's subviews, add the subview [viewArray objectAtIndex:myIndexFromButton] to container.

4) You're done. You can obviously create the views on demand instead of caching them if you like, but this is the general idea.

Answer 2

Makes sense. What about using UIView's replaceSubview:with: method to do that?

If your views are not very heavy then you can also simply keep all 4 ready in the super view and simply hide/show the appropriate ones.