uiview

UIView animation along a round path?

I need to make my little guy (in a UIIamgeView) jump forward and it has to look natural. I want to know is there a way to do it with CoreAnimation (beginAnimation/commitAnimation)? I could do it by setting a point in between in the air but the movement looks not natural :P ...

Why are Views loaded from nibs being placed 20 pixels down from the status bar?

I am trying to set up a layout as such in an iPad application. It will have three major views, which make up the whole screen. The views will be stacked one on top of the other, each taking up the full width. I have one major nib file which accounts for the entire screen space. In that nib file, I am instantiating the three view cont...

Loading a View from IB

This should be a pretty easy fix, but I haven't figured out from reading the Apple documentation or other SO questions how to do this simple switch from creating my Interface programmatically to using Interface Builder. I am basing my code around this framework: http://www.pushplay.net/blog_detail.php?id=27 The only difference is that,...

Setting up a view to draw to in Objective-C (iPhone) ?

Okay, so, I'm all new to iPhone and stuff, but I'm not even at programming, I have many years of experience with ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0, I want to set up a view, that I can also pass variables to. The view is gonna draw everything with Quartz. I tried to make another game where I tried to add a pointer to a NSMutableArray to the view ...

How to get rid of gap when I add my custom UIViewController to window?

I'm getting this gap at the bottom of my window after I add the view of a custom UIViewController. The gap goes away as the view is shifted down after I move to another view and then back. Here is the code in the app delegate: - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { // Override point for customiza...

How Do I Save What I have Drawn In A CGContext

I have drawn into a CGContext of a UIView. - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { [self drawInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()] } I would like to save what I have drawn to a png file. Is there a simple solution? EDIT: Based on suggestions below - here's what I have so far.... -(void)createImage { NSString* outFile = [NSHom...

Quartz Composer in iPhone UIView

Hi everyone, I am trying to embed a Quartz Composer document in an iPhone app. I know Quartz Composer support was added in iPhone OS 3.1 (at least, that's what Wikipedia says) but I can't find any good resources on how to do this. Do I use CGContext? Or are there more friendly ways to add a Quartz Composer composition? Thanks! ...

UIView transparency shows how the sausages are made!

I have a UIView container that has two UIImageViews inside it, one partially obscuring the other (they're being composed like this to allow for occasional animation of one "layer" or another. Sometimes I want to make this container 50% alpha, so what the users sees fades. Here's the problem: setting my container view to 50% alpha makes ...

Transparent Background with a Modal UIViewController

I have a dilema, I want to present to the user a semi-transparent view. I found out by experimenting that if I simply pushed the transparent view to the top of my NavigationController's stack, that it would not render the transparency level I wanted. So I decided to simply add the view as a subview of the current view at the top of the ...

Re-ordering a collection of UIView's based on their CGPoint

Hi all, I have a NSMutableArray that holds a collection of UIViewControllers Amongst other properties and methods an instance of each of the viewControllers are placed in a parent view The user will place these objects individually when desired to. So essentially I use - (void)addSubview:(UIView *)view when a new view is added to th...

Objective-C View drawRect: change the Rect

In my UIView's drawRect, there's a parameter rect, which is a CGRect, where would I change this rect? I'd like to use it as a camera for a game that I am making, such as rect.origin.x = myCamera.x; rect.origin.y = myCamera.y; and then my drawing functions should draw it where the camera is placed... How would I change the rect? ...

How To Detect "Touch Down" in superview of UIScrollView?

I have a UIView that contains a UIScrollView and I want to be able to capture the "Touch Down" event in the UIView any time the user taps on the UIScrollView. I've tried including all the touchesBegan/Ended/Cancelled handlers in my UIViewController but none of them get fired when tapping inside the UIScrollView contained in the main UIV...

Drawing and Animating with UIView or CALayer?

hello, i am trying to implement a graph which a uiview draws. There are 3 UIViews to animate a left/right slide. The problem is, that i can't cancel the UIView animation. So I replaced the UIViews by CALayer. Now, the question is if CALayer is appicable for this? Is it normal to draw on a CALayer like this? And why is a CALayer so slow w...

How to reload a table view in a view controller in iphone?

I am new to iphone development.I have created a table view in a view controller. I want to reload the table view so that i can display the contents which are parsed previously in delegates. More over reloadData does only reload the cells. It doesn't take care of actually updating the underlying datasource. E.g. if i read data from an...

UIView animation -- horizontal page curl... like a book?

I'm pretty sure I've run across this animation at some point, but I can't remember where or how to do it! I want the equivalent of UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlDown but a full page horizontal curl. Does anybody have code that does this? Thanks! ...

iPhone UIView frame animation inconsistent why?

I have an app that uses an image loaded in from an UIImagePickerController instance. Once the picker is dismissed so as to reduce the jarring transition from the picker layout to the layout of the next function I initially have the UIImageView for the image fill the whole screen and then when the picker is dismissed the image 'squeezes' ...

How can we turn views like turning a page in an iphone application?

Is it possible to turn a view slowly like turning a page? When i swipe from right to left, the current view will turn and the next view will be shown. And from left to right, the previous view will come slowly as we move the finger. How can I do it? Any ideas?? ...

Is it possible to sort a NSArray collection of UIView's based on their tag?

I've seen examples of something like [someArray sortUsingSelector:@selector(compare:)]; I'm looking for an example that stores a collection of UIViews and I'd like to sort them in ascending or descending order based on tags I assume programatically when a new UIView is created. If someone could provide a code example or instructions ...

How to check image during animation

I have set up an animation in the following way (self is an UIImageView, myImages an Array of UIImages): self.animationImages = myImages; self.animationDuration = 50; self.animationRepeatCount = 0; [self startAnimating]; During the animation I'd like to check the current image. I tried it the following way if([self image]==[UIImage i...

How to load a UIView from a tap?

Hi, I'm new to iPhone Development and I did some examples and seen code and code and more code but I still can't get the when the user taps here show this view using this animation, and go back after (user taps a back button) I did some Tab Bar examples, Utility examples, etc but when I start a project from scratch the code never...