Is there any way to change the UINavigationBar and the colors of the more and configure views of a UIToolbar? I have an app with a black toolbar and black nav bars but the more view is now out of place. Any way to make this match?
Is there any way to get ahold of the configure view to alter it?
NOTE: This question refers to the configure view not the more view itself. There has been no answer to that yet.
Get ahold of your UITabBarController instance.
Then you can access the "More..." controller.
self.myTabBarController.moreNavigationController
From a tabbar's UIViewController child you also have an implicit reference:
self.tabBarController.moreNavigationController.navigationBar.barStyle
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I have two UITableViewControllers that are connected via a Show segue. The prompt property of UINavigationItem is set on both view controllers in Interface Builder. When the first view controller is shown, the prompt and navigation bar are both displayed properly, however, when performing a segue to the second view controller, the title and the back button animate undesirably. I have tried setting the prompts programmatically in the viewWillLayoutSubviews, viewDidLayoutSubviews, viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear:, and the viewDidAppear: methods of both view controllers, but I get the same effect.
Any ideas on how to resolve this issue? I don't want to resort to a custom view for the titleView because I prefer the stock functionality, but I am not able to figure out how to fix the undesirable animation.
Here is a video if the animation in question.
Well, it looks like this is an issue with the way that the UINavigationItem is laid out when showing the next view controller.
According to Catalina T. in an answer to a similar question, making two calls to set the hidden property of the navigation bar to true and then again to false in viewWillAppear: seems to get by this issue.
I would like to have a separate bar above the UISplitViewController on iPad. I will use this bar to show a logo.
I did some googling and reading but cannot find a solution to this other than create my completely own subclass to draw my screen like I want it. I'd like to avoid that if possible...
You should read about ViewController Containment to build your own Container Controller.
Helpful links:
iOS Reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
objc.io article:
http://www.objc.io/issue-1/containment-view-controller.html
Create your own container view controller. In its view this VC will add a navigation bar (or some other view that you can add your logo to) and the split view controllers view. It should also add the split VC as a child.
This is a custom subclass that you will create, but it is minimal code and requires no drawing code from you.
As the title says, I am wondering if/how you use Storyboard without UINavigationBars? How do you disable these UINavigationBars if you just want to make use of storyboard but not this other control it comes with?
Your view controllers will only have navigation bars provided if they're part of a UINavigationController stack. You're not obligated to use UINavigationController.
I was looking to implement something like the image below, and really have no idea how it's done and was wondering if someone had a quick design idea (no code is necessary or anything). Is it a footer view for the table view? is it some unknown footer view for a popover controller? Is it some way to integrate a toolbar from the UINavigationController 'into' the popover? I guess I could always create a custom view and display it 'like' a popover. Thanks for any help.
UIPopoverController will actually do a lot of that for you. If you set its content view controller to a UINavigationController, the contents of that navigation controller’s current view controller’s navigation item will display embedded in the top of the popover. I believe setting the view controller’s (not the navigation controller’s) toolbarItems will have the same effect at the bottom.
In this case, it looks like they wrote a custom popover controller; it doesn’t have an arrow attached, and the top of it is shaded a little differently from the standard UIPopoverController. But I’m pretty sure you can use the methods I just described to achieve a similar effect without having to roll your own popover.
I checked out Apple's example on how to exchange detail views in the UISplitViewController and it seems that they put the UIToolbar in every detail controller. Then, if the device is rotated, they hide the toolbar or show it and add a popover button which will show the root controller.
I'd like to adopt this pattern to show my root controller in a popover using a button in the toolbar, but unfortunately, my detail controllers are all UITableViewControllers and they do not allow adding other UI elements than a table view. So how do I deal with that? Is there an example around?
René
I think I figured out by myself: DON'T use a ´UITableViewController´ and a UITableView as root view in your NIB, as you cannot add a UIToolbar to the table view.
Instead: In the NIB, put a standard view and drag a UIToolbar and a UITableView on it.
Connect the standard view to the controller's "view" outlet.
Add another outlet and make it a UITableView. Connect the table view to it.
In the code: Let your controller inherit from UIViewController and not from UITableViewController.
Add a property to your controller to get the TableView to make it look compatible to UITableViewController.
public UITableView TableView
{
get { return this.viewTableView; }
}
Upon the viewDidRotate event you will have to adjust the table views width and height now (UITableViewController did that job for you before):
this.TableView.Frame = new RectangleF(0, 44, this.SuperView.Frame.Width, this.SuperView.Frame.Height);
The 44 pixels com from the parent view's toolbar.
I don't miss UITableViewController. I know there are some issues like automatic scrolling when editing, but in my case this is simply not needed.
René
Check out this example and the corresponding code. If I understand your question, this should show you how to do what you're looking to accomplish.
Also, just as an FYI to everyone, another MT user MonoTouched the MultipleDetailViews example that you linked to above.