iPhone 5 views not resizing to correct width - objective-c

I do not use auto layout and I set all my views to autoresize their subviews.
My subviews will not get the correct width and I do the following hack:
- (void)awakeFromNib {
if([CEDeviceUtils isPhone5])
{
NSUInteger width = [CEViewUtils windowSize].width;
if(width != 568) width = 568;
[CEViewUtils sizeView:self atWidth:width];
}
}
isPhone5, windowSize and sizeView are just some utility methods that I use and their implementation is not important for my question.
I do not like having to use this hack and I must be missing something. Any clues on how to fix this issue?
Thanks!

The 4" Retina display has a 320 x 568 effective resolution, with the 568 pt being the height. I'm assuming you're using a landscape orientation by the fact that you're checking if the width property is 568, but are you sure your [CEViewUtils windowSize].width isn't returning the 320 pt width of the device in the default portrait orientation? You should probably just be looking at the height property regardless of the current state of device rotation.
Also, it can't hurt to check that your isPhone5 method is actually returning the correct value; throw an NSLog() or breakpoint in your code to make sure control reaches where you expect it to. (Same goes for the awakeFromNib method -- make sure it's getting called when you expect it to be. You may need to move this code into the viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear methods, which are called after the view metrics have been established, so you can override them.)

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Setting UIScrollView's origin for pinch gestures

I'm creating a scroll view for displaying a very large view, and I need both scroll and zoom functionality (just like an image viewer). Here are the steps that I've taken:
In interface builder, I've put a scroll viewer to the view controller.
I've added a pinch gesture recognizer to the scroll viewer.
I've connected the gesture recognizer's action to the code to handle the gesture events.
When the view controller is loaded, I change my view's origin to the center (viewer is my scroll viewer): self.viewer.contentOffset = CGPointMake(384, 512);
In my code for the handler, I handled the event as such:
(startScale is 1.0 in the beginning)
- (IBAction)handlePinch:(UIPinchGestureRecognizer *)sender {
if(sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded){
startScale *= sender.scale;
}else{
float result = sender.scale * startScale;
self.viewer.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(result, result);
}
}
When I run the app, the gesture is recognized and scaling works correctly, however, the whole view scales with respect to the 0,0 point of the screen (top left). I want it to scale with respect to the middle point that I'm applying the gesture, just as a natural pinch gesture for zooming into a photo.
I've also tried setting self.viewer.frame's origin, but nothing changed. I've searched about the problem and found these:
How to set a UIView's origin reference? (already tried)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13163279/pinch-punch-gestures-center (about my problem, but unanswered)
UIPinchGestureRecognizer for zooming and panning an image in xcode (looks like an overkill, too complicated for me, and I'm not sure if this would really help my situation)
How can I achieve natural pinching with my scroll view, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Can.
Well, the answer to the problem is very simple: Remove the pinch gesture altogether. The benefit of using a UIScrollView is that it handles the panning/zooming internally, and you have to do nothing
Edit: To make sure the content is scaled properly, you are going to need a UIView (called contentView or whatever you want) where you put all the content, and then on the delegate method of your UIScrollView do this:
- (UIView *)viewForZoomingInScrollView:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
return contentView;
}
This should solve your problem
Edit 2: Also remember to set the minimum / maximum zoom scales for your UIScrollView

Starting Position of NSSplitView divider

How can I set the start position of a NSSplitView?
The closest thing I've found that looks like it would work is setPosition
//Set splitView position.
[splitView setPosition:330 ofDividerAtIndex:0];
This doesn't seem to do anything though, my splitview still starts with the divider in the center.
ANy ideas?
You don't set the position of the divider, you set the sizes of your NSSplitView's subviews. The divider is then repositioned automatically.
This is how I positioned my divider and subview size (in swift):
let subview: NSView = mySplitView.subviews[1] as NSView
subview.setFrameSize(NSMakeSize(subview.frame.size.width, 100))
In the view's class housing the split view
override func viewWillAppear() {
self.mySplitView.setPosition(120, ofDividerAtIndex: 0)
}
or wherever you want it to start.
NSSplitView needs initial non-sized bounds to make them layout correctly.
If your view has zero-size, then it will not show expected layout.
The best way is providing non-zero layout (this is what IB does), but sometimes this is impossible.
If you cannot provide non-zero size, then I think you have to provide proper - (void)splitView:(NSSplitView *)splitView resizeSubviewsWithOldSize:(NSSize)oldSize delegate method implementation to layout everything manually yourself. (this is my current best practice)
Maybe that is the center? If splitView is correctly hooked up to your split view, that code should work. You should probably log [splitView minPossiblePositionOfDividerAtIndex:0] and [splitView maxPossiblePositionOfDividerAtIndex:0] before trying to set the position of the divider so you know the possible values.

Possible to manually rotate UIPopoverController's view?

The view system in my app is highly customized and uses a number of views that are manually rotated from portrait to landscape based on user interactions (the rotation is done by applying an affine transform to the view/layer).
I want to present a popover inside one of these rotated views, but the orientation of the popover always appears relative to the orientation of the device (i.e., not relative to the view). I'm guessing the answer is no, but just in case someone has a clever idea: is there any way to manually rotate the view that is presented by UIPopoverController?
Sean, I just tested it for kicks, yes it works.
It has to be done (in my case at least) in viewDidAppear (if done in viewWillAppear, it gets knocked back to the original setting.)
This worked just fine (just tested now) to have a popover at a 90 degree angle. i.e in my case my main view is in portrait mode and the popover is turned 90 deg.
self.navigationController.view.superview.superview.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation (M_PI/2.0);
Are you trying to rotate the popover or just the content shown in the popover? You can control some of the former by setting which arrow orientations are possible. I'm interested in the latter, and it seems to work just by grabbing the content view controller. E.g.:
aPopoverController.contentViewController.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI);
DISCLAIMER: If you're at all interested in trying to get your app into the store, this code is almost certainly grounds for rejection. It dives into UIKit's private API's which is a big no-no as far as apple is concerned.
#RunningPink had the right idea. Depending on how the view hierarchy is set up, the popover may be back up farther than two superviews. The popover itself it an instance of the (private) class _UIPopover (at least in iOS 5). You can find this view by doing:
UIView *possiblePopover = popoverController.contentViewController.view;
while (possiblePopover != nil) {
// Climb up the view hierarchy
possiblePopover = possiblePopover.superview;
if ( [NSStringFromClass([possiblePopover class]) isEqualToString:#"_UIPopoverView"] ) {
// We found the popover, break out of the loop
break;
}
}
if (nil != possiblePopover) {
// Do whatever you want with the popover
}
In doing this, I found that transforming the view often ended up making the popover look blurry. I found the reason was that the popover's superview was an instance of another private class called UIDimmingView which is responsible for accepting touches outside of the popover and causing the popover to dismiss. Performing the rotation on the dimming view removed the blurriness I was seeing in the popover.
However, transforming the dimming can result in weirdness where certain parts of the window are not "covered" by the dimming view so the popover will not dismiss if these parts of the window are tapped. To get around this, I applied the rotation to the dimming view, reset the dimming view's frame to cover the screen, and then translated the popover view into place.
if (nil != possiblePopover) {
// Found the popover view
CGAffineTransform rotation = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(-M_PI_2);
CGAffineTransform translation = // Whatever translation in necessary here
// Rotate the UIDimming View and reset its frame
[possiblePopover.superview setTransform:rotation];
[possiblePopover.superview setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, possiblePopover.superview.frame.size.height, possiblePopover.superview.frame.size.width)];
// Translate the popover view
[possiblePopover setTransform:translation];
}

NSWindow set frame higher than screen

I need help. I have an app like Adium with vertical sliders. But my app change the window height, depending on content. In case if the Screen height less than my app'a window height my window reduces the height automatically.
When I'm trying to use setFrame to my window and set window.frame.size.height higher than screen height then nothing happens.
So the question is: how to set window frame higher than screen height?
By default, the frameworks make sure you cannot resize your window to be outside the screen frame. To change this behavior, subclass your NSWindow, and override the constrainFrameRect:toScreen: method to return the unaltered frame; something like this:
- (NSRect)constrainFrameRect:(NSRect)frameRect toScreen:(NSScreen *)screen
{
//return the unaltered frame, or do some other interesting things
return frameRect;
}

Why aren't my views being positioned correctly on interfaceOrientation changes?

I have a UIViewController one UIWebView in it. I'd like the UIWebView to be positioned in the centre of the iPad screen in landscape and portrait modes. So, I've implemented it like this
// UIViewController
// InfoGraphicView is the UIWebView
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Overriden to allow any orientation.
return YES;
}
- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration {
if (toInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait ||
toInterfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown) {
[self layoutPortrait];
} else {
[self layoutLandscape];
}
}
- (void)layoutLandscape {
NSLog(#"Layout Landscape");
infoGraphicView.frame = CGRectMake(100, 100, 936, 700);
}
- (void)layoutPortrait {
NSLog(#"Layout Portrait");
infoGraphicView.frame = CGRectMake(100, 100, 700, 936);
}
However, it's not behaving as I expected. In the above code, I would expectt he UIWebView to be 100px (or points or whatever the unit is) away from the top and the left. But it's not. In Portrait mode it appears flush with the top left of the screen, and in Landscape mode it seems to be partially offscreen in the top left.
If I set the frame as CGRectMake(-100, 100, 700, 936) then I get it positioned in the center of the screen as I'd like it to be, but I've no idea why.
As usual, there's most likely something simple I'm overlooking but I can't figure it out. Any help greatly appreciated as always.
The coordinates you set on infoGraphicView are relative to its superview, not to the screen generally. And views don't necessarily clip their subviews. Furthermore, the shape set automatically to self.view will depend on the scaling flags set in Interface Builder. However, I think that by default it is set to fill the whole screen.
That said, I think the mistake is in your use of willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:duration:. That is called before the rotation begins, so self.view has the old size (ie, it'll still be portrait sized if rotating from portrait to landscape and vice versa). Probably better to hook willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:duration: — then the correct size has been set and you'll be within the CoreAnimation block so your view will grow/shrink as part of the rotation animation.
It's also worth checking which resizing flags you have set on infoGraphicView. They'll take effect automatically, in addition to any changes you make. So you probably want to disable them all.
This probably is an issue with the view that the web view is in. The coordinate system used is that of the view’s superview. If that view isn’t being resized on rotation, then you’ll see unexpected layout like this. You can access the superview of a view through the superview property; one way to see its frame would be to use its description. Put this line in one of your layout methods:
NSLog(#"Superview: %#", [infoGraphicView superview]);
That should print out a description of the view.
Once you get that figured out, if you want the web view to have the same layout, you can use its autoresizingMask property. If you set it like this:
infoGraphicView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
Then the view will automatically change its width and height to keep the top, left, right, and bottom margins the same.