I have one main NSWindow which is empty, and 5 NSViews. The NSViews have different buttons and labels etc, and the window is empty. The first view displayed is a menu, linking to the other views and back. This works fine and the views switch well.
However if the NSWindow is a certain size, and the NSView is bigger, then it spills out of the NSWindow and gets cut off.
Is there any way such that when I do:
[_window setContentView: theNewView];
to also have _window resize to fit the new view? If this is possible, can this be done with an animation?
-[NSWindow setContentSize:] does this (without animation). Give it the desired size of the content view and it will resize both content view and the window appropriately, e.g.
[_window setContentSize:theNewView.frame.size];
[_window setContentView:theNewView];
For animation, you need to compute window size manually using frameRectForContentRect: and then change window's frame with animate:YES:
[_window setContentView:theNewView];
NSRect viewScreenFrame = /*translate theNewView.frame to screen coordinates*/;
NSRect wndFrame = [_window frameRectForContentRect:viewScreenFrame];
[_window setFrame:wndFrame display:YES animate:YES];
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I have a Mac OS X (10.9) application with a custom NSView for my main NSWindow's contentView property. The only thing the custom view does is override drawRect: so that it's transparent. Transparency is required so that my NSOpenGLView is visible (see below):
/* Transparent NSView Subclass */
- (void)drawRect:(NSRect)dirtyRect
{
NSLog(#"Drawing Rect");
[[NSColor clearColor] set];
NSRectFillUsingOperation(dirtyRect, NSCompositeClear);
}
The contentView has an NSOpenGLView as a subview, with its surface order set to -1 (it's 'below' the main NSWindow, which is also transparent):
/* NSOpenGLView subclass: */
GLint order = -1;
[self.openGLContext setValues:&order forParameter:NSOpenGLCPSurfaceOrder];
I then instantiate a WebView and place it as a subview of this custom view:
_webview = [[WebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[_webview setMaintainsBackForwardList:NO];
[_webview setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];
[_webview setDrawsBackground:NO];
[_window.contentView addSubview:_webview];
The WebView is a small box in the window (on top of the NSOpenGLView) which is used to login to a service. Once login happens it should disappear, showing only the NSOpenGLView.
Here's the problem: when I call [_webview removeFromSuperview]; the contentView does not redraw; therefore, the WebView is still drawn on the screen (although not responsive to mouse or keyboard). If I use my mouse to resize the window that everything is in, the contentView redraws (I see the message in the logs) and the WebView's content disappears.
Also, if I don't add the NSOpenGLView as a subview, the WebView goes away as it should.
Shouldn't the contentView fire a drawRect after a subview is removed? Even when I used setNeedsDisplay: or setNeedsLayout: after removing the WebView the contentView still didn't redraw.
Apple's advice these days is to use Core Animation layers to put normal views on top of OpenGL views.
I suspect that the content view has redrawn itself. It draws clear. What you're seeing is the OpenGL surface behind it. The nearly-raw-VRAM nature of OpenGL surfaces may mean that the web view that was drawn on top of it actually modified the contents of the surface. So, I recommend that you force the OpenGL view to redraw itself. If it draws in its -drawRect:, then it should be enough to send it -setNeedsDisplay:. If you do rendering outside of -drawRect: by manually making the context current, issuing rendering commands, and then calling -flushBuffer, then you'll need to do that.
I have some subviews that I place inside each of my tab bar's view controllers. Right now I'm sizing it with a pixel count but it only works on the iPhone 4 and 4s and not the iPhone 5 because of the longer screen size. I could check for the device and then size it that way but I feel like there has to be an easier way to do this.
viewController1.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460);
I colored the subview yellow so it's easier to see.
You should NOT change frame of tabbar's content view controller's view. UITabBar takes itself care of sizing the child view controller's frame properly.
If you want to add subview to content view controller (controller under some tab) and make that view to always automatically resize with the controllers main view (self.view), you can use combination of superviews frame and autoresizing.
Example code (you can do this in - (void)viewDidLoad for example):
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
[self.view addSubview:view];
If you want to do this by setting frame than DO this:
[childView setFrame:childView.superview.bounds];
The master view in your view controller should already be the size of the usable space on the sceen. In general, if you want a view to be the same size as it's parent, you can use view.frame = view.superview.frame, though I doubt that would be a good idea to call on the view controller's view.
I've been trying to build a specific look for my menubar app.
I've been using a NSWindow with a NSBorderlessWindowMask style mask and setting [window setOpaque:NO] and [window setBackgroundColor:[NSColor clearColor]]. That gives me a blank canvas which works great for the title bar.
Now I'm having problems with the view-based NSTableView I'm using for the listing. How can I clip the NSTableCellViews to the window's rounded corners?
I started out just having a custom view wrapping the NSTableView, drawing the background with rounded corners. Using [view addClip:path] doesn't clip child views though.
I've also tried using a [view setWantsLayer:YES] with a mask. That worked great, but the table view cells would sporadically glitch out. It seems that having a NSScrollView be a child of a layer is a known problem:
My current view structure looks something like:
NSWindow
- MyTitleBarView
- MyBackgroundView
- NSScrollView
- NSTableView
I found one way to do it:
The trick is to keep the window style as the default and not set NSBorderlessWindowMask. Then you can add your custom title bar view to the window's theme frame like so:
NSView *themeFrame = [[window contentView] superview];
NSView *firstSubview = [[themeFrame subviews] objectAtIndex:0];
[titleBarView setAutoresizingMask:(NSViewMinYMargin | NSViewWidthSizable)];
[themeFrame addSubview:titleBarView positioned:NSWindowBelow relativeTo:firstSubview];
This basically just puts your custom title bar view on top of the standard title bar. You'll probably have to do some rejiggering to the view frames and window buttons. See INAppStoreWindow for some code examples of this.
The INAppStoreWindow project says that this method doesn't use any private APIs, and thus is able to be used on the App Store.
If you require the window to be transparent, you can just set the following on the window:
[window setOpaque:NO];
[window setBackgroundColor:[NSColor colorWithCalibratedWhite:1.0 alpha:0.5]];
Well, this is what I want to do in my app: I would like to implment a UIView with a map on the top half of the screen and a tableview on the other half with two buttons in the middle. If I press one of the buttons the map will get fullscreen and if I press the other one the tableView will fit all the screen.
Any suggestion?
In one view controller like a UINavigationController create an MKMapView with a frame the size of the top half of the view and add it as subview of your view controller. Then I would create a UIToolbar to hold your buttons and make the top of it's frame line up with bottom of the MKMapView. Finally create a UITableView with it's frame just below the others (make sure you hook up it's delegates).
Then assign the target of your UIBarButtonItem that makes the map go fullscreen to a method that animates the frames of all three views like this:
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.24
delay:0.0
options:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut
animations:(void (^)(void)) ^{
self.toolbar.frame = CGRectMake(0, MAP_HEIGHT_FULLSCREEN, 320, TOOLBAR_HEIGHT);
self.mapView.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,MAP_HEIGHT_FULLSCREEN);
self.tableView.frame = CGRectMake(0, MAP_HEIGHT_FULLSCREEN+TOOLBAR_HEIGHT, 320, MAP_HEIGHT_FULLSCREEN-MAP_HEIGHT);
}
completion:^ (BOOL finished){}
];
Create both views how you are planning, On one button click, change the frame of one view to fit the full screen, if you click the other button, do the same thing to the other view.
I think I'm missing something simple here. I need to create a semi-transparent UIImageView that covers the entire screen including the navigation toolbar. How do I do this?
This is what I'm trying to do ...
This is a possible solution:
UIImage *image=[UIImage imageNamed:#"whatever.png"];
UIImageView *overlay=[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
overlay.alpha=0.5;
[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] addSubview:overlay];
EDIT:
It is likely that you would not be setting the alpha value for the overlay, but rather use a transparent PNG with embedded transparence levels. Still, it's a possibility.
When not using ARC, you should [overlay release].
To focus the above answer a little bit, you just need to be clear on how views clip to what parts of the device's screen that they "own".
The key point is that in a navigation view, the Navigation bar itself is not part of your [myController view] - your view controller's view is everything below the bar and anything you do in that view clips to the rectangle below that bar.
The bar is, however, part of your [myAppDelegate window]. The window is essentially the entire screen of your device, while the views are sub portions responsible for managing their specific bounds. So calling [[myAppDelegate window] addSubView:] will display above the bar where [[myViewController view] addSubView:] will not.