Sizing and Placing a UIView from xib in Xcode 4.3 - objective-c

Forgive me if there is already an answer out there for this problem but I looked at them and wasn't sure about any of them. Here is my problem:
I have a xib file, which has its own view (the superview). On the superview, I have placed a Segmented Control at the top and a smaller UIView centered under the Segmented Control. Using the Autosizing Control in the story board, I was able to make the view show up where I expected. Now that I'm using a xib file in Xcode 4.3, I discovered that the Autosizing Control was not showing. I fixed that and am able to now use the Autosizing Control. However, I still cannot make the view show up where I expect.
Using Autolayout, at least my view was kind of where I want it. Unchecking Autolayout and using the Autosizing Control, it looks like the superview (or whitespace) is now getting shoved to the upper left corner next to my Segmented Control.
I'm new to XCode and the new changes are really throwing a wrench in the mix for me. Does anybody know how I can get my subview to display in the superview under my Segmented Control?
Thank you.

OK. I've learned! You really do NOT want to uncheck Autolayout. Instead keep Autolayout and learn how to deal with the new constraints. MUCH easier; MUCH better. Just become a constraints guru and the new Autolayout (default) handles everything for you (including auto rotate). SLICK BEYOND BELIEF!!!!

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weird gap when using uiscrollview and uilabel

here is the problem i have a tow muti-line label with many content, so I use a scroll view to show them all
then I follow this to do the autolayout: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/AutoLayoutbyExample/AutoLayoutbyExample.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010853-CH5-SW2
basic idea is to make a container view outside the scroll view to make sure the labels can fill the scroll view no matter what direction it is.
here is the hierarchy and constraint:
and the portrait mode works well:
but when it change to landscape mode some wired gap pops up!
and the more text i put in the label the higher gap i got!
my question is what should i do to kill those gap?
please give me some explicit solution or just give me an example, thank you!
and i am using autolayout in ios7, so some solution without coding are preferred!

Any way to restore 3D effect and/or shading to UIPopoverController?

The recent release of iOS 7 includes a change to UIPopoverController where the popovers are now flat, with no shading underneath (none of the betas for iOS 7 included this change - the change only appeared with the GM release). Unfortunately this change is really not working with our iPad application; without the shading effect and the dark border, our popover is blending in with the underlying screen.
Do I have any options at all as far as customizing this effect or (even better) making popover look the way it used to look?
Take a look at popoverBackgroundViewClass. Not sure this will give you the result you are looking for, however. When a popover is displayed, the system dims the background view hierarchy, but there are no shadows underneath the popover. If this is not enough, you should look at implementing a custom popover controller or using an open source.

Is there a tutorial somewhere about designing a really large view and put it in scrollView using storyboard

The question may be similar with
Designing inside a scrollview in xcode 4.2 with storyboards
but none of the answer there makes sense at all.
Okay I created a new controller and I added a scrollView.
The very first thing I noticed is there is NOWHERE to specify the content size of the scrollView.
Not in attributes inspector, not in size inspector.
Then what?
I am expecting some larger than normal box where I can draw all the view I want to put in. There is no such thing either.
I am very frustated.
All the "tutorial" out there tell about how to fill scrollView using code.
Another thing I tried is to select controller go to size inspector and then choose FREEFORM.
Great. I still can't make that template big.
Should I do this in XIB instead? At least on that one I can have one huge UIView. Or what is the official way industry standard way of doing this? Is there a WWDC for this one?
Say I want to draw something like these:
I don't think you can get a tutorial on this as it is simply impossible in IB. As most people already commented out what you want to do here need to be done programmatically.
If you are using XIB you can set up all your content there. Under the size tab (in the inspector) you will need to change the height to fill all your content but you still need to set up your contentSize programmatically.
For storyboard I don't think it is possible to change the size of your scrollview in IB.

Resizing an NSView smaller than its subviews?

Couldn't find anything on the net about this and wondered if anyone on SO has a solution.
I have an NSView with several subviews that are centered by removing the left and right anchor points. When I resize my view, programatically or with the mouse, to a smaller width than the subviews: it pushes them off center. Has anyone come across this before and do you have a solution?
EDIT: I want to be able to resize my view to a zero width. The reason being, the view is actually part of a split view and I have hooked up a button to 'collapse' it. When it collapses all of the subviews are pushed off-center and aren't re-centered when the view is resized, effectively un-collapsing it.
I have solved my problem now and thought I would share incase anyone comes across this issue in the future.
No amount of playing with autosizing options or view layouts in Interface Builder seemed to stop my subviews from getting moved off center. I did manage to find this link here and from this page, the advice:
Springs and struts, as currently
implemented, are really no good for
anything but keeping either one or
both sides of a view "stuck" to the
nearest edge. Any sort of centering
behavior, division of gained/lost area
between multiple views, etc. has to be
done by hand.
Based on this I overrode my view's setFrame: method and manually laid out my subviews using their setFrame: method. This works great and gives me the results I'm looking for.
There is the same issue using NSSplitView, resizing here one Subview to be smaller than the Subview Subviews makes sense,e.g. having small charts in the upper subview, and an rss reader in the lower subview.
If you want to show only the rss reader in the lower subview, you can "hide" the upper subview, but after resizing the upper subview the NSImageView are not layed out the same as in the beginning. Check this nib/xCode Project and the following screenshot to see this behaviour.
Only workaroung is to override the resize function to stop getting smaller.

How to center NSSegmentedControl

I've added an NSSegmentedControl to a pane on an horizontal split view on a normal window. I thought that adjusting the springs would make the segmented control centre itself automatically, but it doesn't. How can keep it centred?
I was told to add an observer for when the parent view's frame changes, and manually adjust the position of the centered view, but I've no idea how to go about that.
Any ideas are very welcome.
The layout you describe sounds totally plausible in IB.
Just testing it out, I dropped a segmented control in one of the views in a split view, and it stays centered, so I'm sure there's just a configuration issue.
Be sure that:
Your split view is set to stay centered and resize appropriately with the window as appropriate (just to make sure the behaviour you're seeing is not related to the segmented control's container not resizing properly).
You position your segmented control dead centre, and then leave all 3 horizontal "springs" unclicked (ie: no left anchoring, no right anchoring, no horizontal growing).
I don't know if it's been "fixed" in recent OS versions, but if I recall correctly, NSSegmentedControl does a -sizeToFit each time segments change. If the control isn't changing at all, Jarrett's instructions should work.