I want to add margins or paddings on the right of some nested UILabels
like shown here:
Using trailing spaces on the labels seems wrong and old-school somehow.
Any way to make that more elegant on interface builder?
Just add a spacer view at the end of the horizontal stack view. Set its color to clear. Give it a width constraint to fix its size.
Or, judging from your screen shot, it looks like you could just move the right edge of the top-level stack view (child of MasterCell) to leave a margin.
UPDATE
You can set layout margins on a stack view, in the Size inspector:
Maybe you just want to set the right layout margin.
If you set the stack view's layout margins in code (the layoutMargins property), you must also set its layoutMarginsRelativeArrangement property to YES.
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I am attempting to implement something similar to Safari where the window's style mask is set to NSFullSizeContentViewWindowMask so the NSToolBar and title bar blur the background view.
This works fine, however I have a view that I need to not be clipped by the toolbar/titlebar, similar to how Safari's WebView has an initial top padding that doesn't cover the content when the view is unschooled.
My attempted solution was to create a dummy NSView which the unclipped views align their top value to, then changing the height constant of the dummy view to the height of the titlebar/toolbar. The issue, however, is that there seems to be no way to calculate the height of the toolbar.
This suggests that I calculate the height by subtracting the height of the contentView from the height of the window, but that only works (returns 0 otherwise as the two heights are equal) if I don't use NSFullSizeContentViewWindowMask which I want to use for the blurring effect.
Am I overlooking something simple, or is there no simple way to accomplish this?
Check NSWindow's contentLayoutRect property.
I know this question has been answered before, many times, but my use case seems to be just different enough from all of them that I can't quite figure it out.
My Problem
I have a scroll view that is not the same size as its superview. The scroll view has 1 subview that is the same size as it, but it needs to be able to be pinch-zoomed.
Attempted Tutorials:
(1) - Apple's Technical Note - This is done only with code and the examples show only full screen scroll views.
(2) - Natasha The Robot's Article - This was a really well written article but I could not get it to work for me. I think it's due to the fact that her scroll view is full screen.
(3) - Happy Coding Blog Article - Another full screen scroll view
... and lots other tutorials that were very similar to these
My requirements
My scroll view needs to be full width
My scroll view needs to be 40pt from the top and have a 1:1 aspect ratio
My scroll view needs to have one subview that is the exact same size of it but can be pinch-zoomed (aka content size = scroll view size)
I don't think that the size of the scroll view should impact anything, but it appears to.
What I have tried
As all the tutorials above recommended, I have only a single subview of the scroll view and have aptly named it "Content View".
View Controller
|-View
|-ScrollView
|-ContentView
|-ZoomableView
Here is a picture of my constraints:
As you can see, I have an equal width set up from the "Grid" (Zoomable view) to the view controller's view. I've also tried adding an equal width of the content view and the VC's view.
My question
I know I can get this to work with an explicit width and height, but I know I should be able to get it by setting the width equal to the view's width and height equal to the view's width as well (AKA 1:1 aspect ratio). How can I achieve this?
I think I ran into the same problem in the past. What I end up doing was adding a "container" view and use it to set up my width and height equality constraints instead of the view controller's view.
This setup will produce what you want I think: a scrollview with 1 subview that can be pinch-zoomed in the view controller's view (grey in the screenshot) but with a top margin of 40pt.
Without using code, I'm basically trying to achieve the "Desired outcome" in this picture:
I want the constraint on the "Hello!" label to shrink its length when the screen height is shorter.
As you can see in "Actual result", the Button in the bottom is off the screen. I want the image view to have fixed width and height.
I know I can create IBOutlets for constraints and doing it by code like this kind of posts suggest (autolayout - make height of view relative to half superview height), but I'm trying to avoid using code as much as possible.
Side question: If there's no way to do this in IB, what are the best ways to do this in code?
Thanks for the help!
Yes. The easiest way to have this kind of "split height" constraint is to put a "header" view between your image view and the top of the screen, and embed your "Hello" label inside this new header view. Then add a constraint to keep the "Hello" label vertically centered inside the header view.
To keep the header view the right size, add constraints to keep the top of the header view pinned to the top of the screen, and the bottom of the header view to the top of the image view.
Then you'll just add constraints to keep the button and image view pinned to the bottom of the screen. (Or, see comment from Sulthan, below.)
In Xcode 5.1 (in beta), there is UI to make more general constraints, including the ones you want, but you have to do it like this or in code in earlier versions.
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.
How can I get a NSTextField (or any object) to respect the autoresizing options below via code? I want to add new objects to the view dynamically, but when I increase the height of the view, they are anchored to the bottom left, as opposed to the top left as shown, and so new textfields are dropped on top of the old ones.
Is this even possible via code?
Anything you can do in Interface Builder you can do through code.
[myTextField setAutoresizingMask:(NSViewMaxXMargin | NSViewMinYMargin)];
This means that the margin between the right edge of the textView and its superview will be flexible, as will the margin between the bottom edge and its superview. Everything else is static.