uiview

iPhone app: recover view after didReceiveMemoryWarning

The app in question has a MainView->ModalView pair. The ModalView is shown via UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal. In case of didReceiveMemoryWarning, MainView is dumped (since it is not visible) and the app stays "alive" but when you flip back there is a (very) short period of time when the screen is blank (since the modal dialog is r...

Move UIViews to avoid collision like rearranging icons on Springboard

Hey, how would one replicate the effect on the iPhone when you rearrange app icons? It would need to avoid collisions and rearrange the UIViews while snapped to a grid. ...

iPhone UIViews sleeping/dying after being brought back into view

Hi, I need some help. This seems to be a common problem I am having when am adding and changing views in my coding. And I would love to learn what I am doing wrong. Currently I am adding and removing views using the following calls from my view controller: [startView removeFromSuperview]; [self addSubview:secondView]; and then doing ...

Is my UIView visible to the user?

Hey, is it possible to determine whether my UIView is visible to the user or not? My View is added as subview several times into a Tab Bar Controller. Each instance of this view has a NSTimer that updates the view. However I don't want to update a view witch is not visible to the user. Is this possible? Thanks ...

UIView viewWithTag 0 problem

Hi, On view in IB I have numerous items (including view itself). ONLY one item has tag 0, yet following line works for ANY UITextBox other then the one with tag 0. Note that only ONE UITextBox has tag 0, why: (UITextField *) [self.view viewWithTag:0]).text = @"foo"; Interesting that when triggered event received for the element with...

iPhone - Apply landscape transform to UIViewAnimationTransition

Hi I apply the following transform to my view to display it in landscape mode. CGAffineTransform transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation((90.0 * M_PI) / 180); transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, +80, +80); Which works fine, now I have two or three other views I want to display in landscape. I would like to animate bet...

UIView subclass draws background despite completely empty drawRect: - why?

So, I have a custom UIView subclass which enables drawing of rounded edges. The thing draws perfectly, however the background always fills the whole bounds, despite clipping to a path first. The border also draws above the rectangular background, despite the fact that I draw the border in drawRect: before the background. So I removed the...

Update a UIVIew again and again and again...

I'm making a simple iPhone app whose sole function is to update a UIView forever (until it exits). I tried this in applicationDidFinishLaunching and viewDidLoad: while(1) { // update view here } but that doesn't work- the app never finishes loading. I'm sure there's a simple solution to this, I just don't know what it its. Al...

iPhone UIScrollView multiple view scaling ?

I am trying to build a map with annotations very much like MKMapKit (google maps API) - but with custom maps for indoors. I have a PDF map (mapView) being loaded into a scroll view for the map as a CATiledLayer - this works great! I have a view annotationsView which draws the annotation bubble on top of the map exactly how I want it - b...

iPhone SDK view scrolling not rubber banding or using momentum from swipes

Hi, I'm having a fundamental problem with getting scrolling to work normally on my iPhone app. I have two views, each created in IB (although I've tried this programmatically and it makes no difference) which scroll very sloppily. Instead of the scrolling that we're used to (which is smooth and continues to scroll and eventually dampen...

How to change the background color of any view dynamically?

hello all, How to change the background color of a view dynamically? Do I set a timer and assign the background color property of the view to change in a loop? How to achieve this functionality? ...

initializing UIView subclass with parameters in iphone sdk?

Iam a newbiew to iPhone development. Version of my SDK is 2.2 In my code, UIViewController is used to change view dynamically once the app is launched, a method in the UIViewController is called to know which view should be initialized along with parameters, which goes to a 'switch-case' and assign a view to current view according to th...

Having problem with view switching from a subview...

Hi Everyone, Maybe this is a silly question but I'm having a problem with switching the view in a subview. Let me explain the code structure: I have these class files: /classes/MySoftwareAppDelegate.h /classes/MySoftwareAppDelegate.m /classes/ViewController.h /classes/ViewController.m /classes/LoginController.h /classes/LoginControlle...

Most efficient way to subclass UIView to create an animated UIImageView

I need to play frame based animations. I tried the UIImageView with animationImages but it doesn't give me any control over my animation. I can't pause it, I can't mask it, I can't know the current frame etc. So I subclassed UIView and created something I called AnimationView which takes the array of images and does the animation using ...

How to load a View on a button press?

I am very new to iPhone Development so pardon me if this is a novice question. I have an app with a RootController that controls loading the various views. It initially loads a MenuView. The MenuView has a button that when a user clicks I want to open a whole different view (called InfoView) that displays some information about the ap...

UIButton, created by Interface Builder, is crashing.

I have narrowed down an ugly bug, but since it seems like something internal to the nib/Interface Builder, I'm at a loss of what to do next. I've got a UIView created in IB which functions as a custom dialog box. It shows a message and two buttons. (Proceed or Cancel.) Both buttons have a Background image set in Interface Builder. Some...

iPhoneSDK : view is not loading data for the first time but loads it subsequently.

I am trying to load a UIView with multiple data. The problem is data is not displays in first load but loads it in subsequent clicks. Can you help me trace the problem. FirstViewController.h #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @class SecondViewController; @interface FirstViewController : UIViewController { IBOutlet SecondVie...

UIViewController. viewDidLoad vs. viewWillAppear: What is the proper division of labor?

I have always been a bit unclear on the type of tasks that should be assigned to viewDidLoad vs. viewWillAppear: in a UIViewController subclass. For example, I am doing an app where I have a UIViewController subclass hitting a server, getting data, feeding it to a view and then displaying that view. What are the pros and cons of doing th...

Rotation Portrait Landscape with 2 XIB

Hello, i have got 2 GUIs and 2 Controllers 1 is called landscapeguicontroller and the second is called highguicontroller. Now generally i call the highguicontroller, and when i rotate my iphone it detects that and then it shows the landscapeguicontroller: Code: landscapeguicontroller *neu =[[landscapeguicontroller alloc] initWithNibNa...

iPhone Programming: Applying Alpha to Parent but not to Child Views

Is it possible to set Alpha to .75 or .50 (transparent) for Parent view but the Child views/controls are opaque (Alpha channel 1.0 - completely visible). Whenever i set Alpha of my main UIView to transparent, all the child views/controls are also shown as transparent. Is there any workaround? ...