How can I make a custom view in iOS which appears above the existing view,but smaller? It should be like UIAlertView, but taken from a .xib file. After user taps a certain button, the small view vanishes and the normal view appears. If this is posiible, how can I do it? And.. if it's not hard for you, please, include code. Thanks in ad...
With the following snippet, I'm adding a drop shadow effect to one my UIView. Which works pretty well. But as soon as I set the view's masksToBounds property to YES. The drop shadow effect isn't rendered any more. self.myView.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]; self.myView.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0; self.myView.layer.sha...
I am creating a loading screen UIView which is added to a subview while some XML is parsed from some URL. Once the XML is returned, the loading screen is removed from its superview. The question I have is how should I release this object? In the code below, you'll see that I send removeFromSuperview to the loadingScreen, but I still h...
I currently have a view animating from one part of the screen to another. I want the animation to pause whenever the "pause" button is pressed. This means the animation needs to remain right where it is (frame location) when I "pause" the animation. I've tried a few things but nothing has given me the result I want. Below is a rough vers...
Hey there, I'd like to display a UIActivityView in a rounded transparent box with text, just like the one shown below. Does anyone know how to do this? p.s. I'd rather not be putting it in an UIAlertView, but I don't know how to do it any other way. Thanks! Tristan ...
I can "curl up" a view controller with this code: [UIView beginAnimations:@"animation" context:nil]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:page animated:NO]; [UIView setAnimationDuration:1]; [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlUp forView:self.navigationController.view cache:NO]; [UIView commitAnimations]...
(IPhone newbie question) I've subclassed a UIViewController and a UIView, and created a InitWithFrame for the view. My custom controller uses this to initialize its view, by frame, in its loadView function. I plan to use the controller and view in my code at different places. At times under a navigation controller, toolbar, both, neit...
Hey there guys, I'm trying to create a menu overlay system on top of a split view application for the iPad. The menu overlay systems is suppose to support a few buttons, one of which will make the overlay disappear and show the SplitViewController. My application delegate is as follows: UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] init]; [view add...
Hello, How can I go about adding a view that appears until the background task finishes (the task in question populates a view and takes ~5 seconds). Thanks, ...
This is stumping me. I have a UIView (call it "parent"). The bottommost subview of that view is a UIImageView (call it "child"), whose frame occupies the entirety of the "parent" bounds. I want to round the corners on the "parent" view, and set a drop shadow. I do this on the CALayer of "parent" as usual: [[parent layer] setShadowOffse...
I am drawing a custom view (UIDatePicker) over my table view which is nested within a UITabBarController. When I add my custom view as below, it gets clipped by the tab bar. [self.view addSubview:customDateView]; Does anyone have a recommendation on how to go around this? Can I hide the tab bar? Thanks in advance, Ricky. ...
Hi, I am using UITextField to get login and password from a user and then i use web service to send XML file using SOAP to a site and after successful authentication the user logs in and another screen is displayed. The next screen has a button to redirect to the previous screen where user can again enter login and password. I enter lo...
How can I add a UISearchDisplayController to a UIView? Interface builder won't let me. ...
I want to be able to display an ADBannerView right above my UITabBar (which displays a UITableView). Unfortunately my banner is not positioning correctly. It will appear right below the UITableView, and then as soon as I scroll, the banner will remain in the middle of my UITableView. I want the banner to appear right above the UITabBar,...
I need to display a spreadsheet in a view. There's no need to edit the cells of the spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet will consistently have the same number of rows and columns. (The spreadsheet cells will be populated with financial figures generated by the user in a different view) How would I do this? A UITableView seems inadequate, ...
Hello, I’m trying to set up an iPad test application, window-based, where I have a single view controller and a single view. When I rotate the iPad, I want the orientation of the toolbar to change, but not that of the view itself. For example, a sort of background view that you work in is fixed to the device, but the status bar and tool...
I want to have multiple views in my application that I switch between. What is the proper way to switch between UIViews that also supports UISplitViewController? Is there a support way to switch or are Apple's controller classes designed to be root and root only? I've tried having one root view and root controller and swap subviews in ...
[self.tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0,48) animated:NO]; I have a UITableView that has a a UIView in the header. My UITableView won't scroll to (0,48) unless animated: YES. I don't want it to animate. Anyone know whats up? ...
Ok, here's the setup: -I have my main view controller. -Its one and only subview comes for another view controller that sets its own frame to (0, 0, 1024, 748). -My app is in landscape mode. For some reason, the subview of my main view controller is being resized to something like (0, 0, 1280, 400) somewhere between after its initia...
I have a root UIView with two subviews: a custom UIView subclass a UIScrollView The custom UIView subclass has some state that is updated by an NSTimer that fires every N seconds. When the view's state is updated, the view calls [self setNeedsDisplay], which triggers a redraw shortly thereafter. This all works as expected. However, ...