I have a splashscreen / launchscreen. It contains a title (label), an image 300x300 and a small label that says copywrite info. I'm trying to center the 3 controls vertically so they fill the screen. (at least look nice) I can't figure out or find instructions how to center the 3. I can create vertical constraints, width contraints and constraints relative to the other controls. But they never appear centered on iPhone5, iPhone6, 6plus etc...
how do you center 3 controls vertically and horizontally using the IDE, so they appear correctly on ALL devices/layouts?
thanks in advance.
how do you center 3 controls vertically and horizontally using the IDE, so they appear correctly on ALL devices/layouts?
Its strange that Xamarin Studio doesn't have a quick auto layout toolbar similar to XCode where you can align your controls vertically or horizontally with one click.
But they provide one not so obvious way to do it.
1. Make sure when you place any control on any screen on storyboard, you place it vertical center with the help of guiding lines.
2. Once you place it click on the control again when it shows the constraint guidelines.
3. At the center of the control there is a dot, drag that dot to until you see the vertical guideline and place it once the line turns blue.
Now your control should be aligned vertically center for all devices.
Hope this helps, happy coding :)
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The documentation of slider questions within Qualtrics can be found here, but there is no mention of being able to have the slider run vertically as opposed to horizontally in the page. Does anyone know if it's possible to have the slider run vertically in the question block?
Not with a Slider question. There is a Graphical Slider question type that has the option of vertical sliders, but it also contains graphics.
I have some difficult time in creating iOS screen to match with visual design provided by design team.
The design team has provided the spacing info for each screen which shows how much space each text needs to be apart from other UI element on the screen. This is attached for your reference. You can see here that the two text labels "Activate Your Account" and "A Verification link...." are placed apart by 25px.
The same thing I am trying to achieve in the storyboard. I am attaching the storyboard screen snapshot for reference.
From this you can see that I cannot keep exactly 25px b/w the two text labels because for the following issue
The text font is custom font and I cannot load the same in storyboard. I have added the font file in the project, but when I try to open it in storyboard for UILabel, it doesn't list out. I am not sure why xcode doesn't show up. This makes me hard to resize the label's frame. If I try to decrease the empty space in the label (upper and lower part of the text), this will make label height less, but when I set the font programmatically, it doesn't fit in this small space.
When I try to increase the height of the label, the text inside the label starts displaying at the center leaving space at the top and bottom of the label frame.
So I want to know how to solve this problem. If anyone had this issues and sorted out, please let me know how to fix this.
Many Thanks
Your designers aren't speccing their designs correctly :) Show them how iOS renders text and have them spec their designs in the same way. This is what we do on the Facebook design team. I mocked up an example for you (each square is 4dp/8px).
http://i.stack.imgur.com/q4tZX.png
I need to create a (very) custom titlebar in a cocoa app. I read about the INAppStoreWindow library, but it seems it doesn't have the feature that I need. So here's what I have need to do (see image for clarification):
My titlebar is the thing between the green and red circle
The text (Text1 - Text3) are all images
The black circle with the exclamation mark is also an image
The grey area below the title bar is a webview. It expands from the left border all the way to the right edge of the reddish sidebar. (This is actually where why I think that the INAppStoreWindow won't work, as I cannot specify a width for the title bar)
The images should have an Action
Text1 through Text3 as well as the black circle load some URL into the webview
Red circle closes the app
My app has no borders and no shadows. Right know in order to be able to move the app I drew a Box element at the top where the title bar should be. I think I can draw something in it as well, but as I'm very knew to cocoa development here are my questions:
How can I draw some images in the Box element?
Is there a better element to draw the titlebar in?
I know that are two questions, but they are closely relatated. It's generally: How to draw a simple titlebar like this?
As the problem inside the titlebar is the same for every item I need to draw (they are all images) I belive there is a quite simple solution for that, but because I lack the experience of how to solve this I'd need your help. You can also point me the the right direction in the comments and I'll answer this question myself after I've got it right.
it's the first time I'm seriously using autolayout so I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
I have a very simple view embedded in a UINavigationController. There are three subviews: a UIWebView, a UIToolbar (which in turn contains three UIBarButtons) and a UIActivityIndicatorView. It's just a basic browser view, basically.
I managed to have everything appear as it should even on rotation, except for the toolbar: if the view is first loaded in vertical orientation, going landscape will not resize the toolbar from 44 to 32 points. Originally, before I wiped everything out, it did resize the toolbar BUT the built-in UIBarButtonItems appeared lower and cut off, as if the toolbar was still 44 points tall but pushed 16 points out of the screen.
If the view is first loaded horizonttaly, the bar is 32 points high but the built-in UIBarButtonItems appear still like that, and rotating to vertical will keep it at 32 points.
I honestly have no idea how to make this work as expected (ie. resize properly when rotated, with the buttons showing properly!), so if anyone could point me in the right direction -- pun intended -- I would be really grateful.
The activity indicator is right in the middle of the frame, with these constraints:
Align Center X to Superview
Align Center Y to Superview
The web view is set to use all available space from the top of the view (including the navbar) up to the top of the toolbar, and has these contraints:
Top Space to Superview
Bottom Space to Toolbar
Align Trailing to Toolbar
Bottom Space to Toolbar (it's actually listed twice)
Align Leading to Toolbar
The toolbar is a mess. It has:
Bottom space to Superview
Align Center X to Superview
Top Space to Web View
Align Trailing to Web View
Top Space to Web View (listed twice)
Leading Space to Superview
Align Leading to Web View
Bottom Space to Bottom Layout Guide
The problem is that by not adding any constraints at all, the web view is much bigger than it should be, and the toolbar doesn't even show.
I mostly set these constraints using the horizontal and vertical red bars (similar to springs and strouts) in the 'pin' popover for autolayout, but I'm starting to think that's not the most appropriate approach.
Note that I'm not trying to use autolayout within the toolbar, I read that it wouldn't work and I'm just using the built-in buttons plus a couple of labelled ones (those 'arrows' are really unicode characters, I may change them to prettier images at some point.)
Thank you in advance. :-)
I'm creating a sample login screen to practice Auto Layout. In portrait mode, it looks like this.
However when I rotate to landspace mode, it looks like this.
Below are the constraints I have set in this layout.
I understand why this is happening. It is because I have a constraint for the User ID UILabel [ Vertical Space(196) ]. How can I position the UIlabel+UITextField set slightly below the horizontal center line of the screen when turned to Landscape?
I assume I can set maybe the middle label to Horizontal Center in Container and then have the other 2 labels positioned relative to that one. But what I'm looking for is a way to position them without the help of center positioning in container. I want them to position slightly below the horizontal center line. How can I do that?
Thank you.
I don't think there's any way to do that in IB, without using the center property -- you could make your views appear below the center by putting another label above User ID, but with no text in it, so it will be invisible. Center that one, and have all the others positioned relative to it.
select all controls and select Top space to superview
Now select only textfields and select Widths Equally
This should work. If not, then let me know i will send you sample code or screens of constraints.