My app does not fill the entire screen. It is a rectangle, lets say, 1000x500 pixels. When the app is on the middle of the screen and I show a popover it appears like this:
What is ugly, half of popover outside the app area.
But if the app is near the left edge of the screen, then it appears the way I want, like this:
What is pretty, all the popover contained inside the app's area.
Is there a way to force the popover to always appear like this second case, inside the app's area?
As far as I know you have very little control on how a popover is displayed. Apple reserves themselves the right to make changes on how to display popover's and this would not be possible if you were in total control. You can define the preferred edge and the preferred width and pretty much anything else is up to the system. If you need more control yourself, you need to draw the whole thing yourself (which is possible, just a a lot of work) or use some third party framework.
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I have a Image View on my storyboard, and when I am trying to use it as a background. No matter what I do, it always stays on top. How would I change it so that it would be a background image, I don't care weather I do it programmatically through swift or through another way.
In the Xcode Interface Builder, you can adjust which views are in the front by selecting the view and going to Editor -> Arrange -> Send to Front, Back, etc.
This can also be done programmatically using UIView methods like bringSubviewToFront:
By moving any of item up/down you can set their layer state. The first one will be on back then second will appear on the first one then.... last one will appear on top most.
I hope this will help you.
If you decide to do it programmatically, you can modify the zPosition property of the view:
myImageView.layer.zPosition = 1
Higher numbers are closer to your face, lower numbers are closer to the screen. So to set your image view as a background, make sure the other views have higher z-positions than it.
Good morning,
I am new to Xcode and am learning to create iOS applications.
When I open a single view application and click on main.storyboard, my size is w Any h Any. When I decide to add a label and run the iOS simulator (iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S), the label appears somewhere else.
This is really frustrating and I have tried many approaches such as disabling use size classes, changing the storyboard size by clicking the w Any h Any button, and even messing with the constraints as mentioned here: Xcode 6 Storyboard the wrong size?
I am really trying to continue with this but I have seem to hit a wall for a couple of hours now, if someone could shed some light to why I am messing this up, that would be amazing.
EDIT: How can I get it to be a "normal" sized iPhone, such as the iPhone 5s?
You can click on the w Any h Any to change it to a normal iphone size by mousing over the squares and reading which devices they encompass.
You are going to have to use constraints though in order to make anything go where you want it to, I really didn't want to learn them but I couldn't do without them now: they are very useful.
EDIT
Constraints are simple in concept but can be tricky in certain situations:
For any view to have valid constraints that work correctly, it needs to know what the size of the view is and its position in it's "parent container" which is just whatever view or viewController it is inside of.
The little |-O-| shaped button and its neighboring buttons next to "w Any h Any" give you options for positioning and sizing the view. So if you click on a view and then click on that square button in the middle, check the width, height boxes and click the left and top lines in that top positioning thing with sizes in it like so:
Then click on add 4 constraints. You will notice blue lines appear around your view saying that it can properly put it where it needs to go when running the app. If there is any orange or red that means there are conflicting constraints on the view.
Sometimes that can mean you put to many constraints (more than you need) and you just need to delete them in size inspector tab. But more often than not, if that doesn't fix it, I've noticed that I usually have a neighboring view that isn't properly "constrained" and is actually the cause for the other views problems.
How can I get it to be a "normal" sized iPhone, such as the iPhone 5s
You don't. The view controller's main view will be resized correctly when the app runs (on a device or in the simulator), as appropriate for the device type and other aspects of its surroundings.
Your job is to use auto layout so that no matter how the view is resized, its subviews (labels and buttons and so forth) will look good. That is what auto layout is for - it's to help you compensate for the fact that you have no idea what the real size of this view will be at runtime.
If I subclass QLabel and I add a QLabel directly to my QDialog, it works fine. If I add this label inside a ScrollArea, the thing I’m drawing doesn’t show unless I resize the dialog itself. Yes, weird.
I’ve setup compilable example code that indicates what the problem is. What I am trying to do is to select an area of an image with my mouse, by drawing a rectangle on the corresponding area. The images my program is designed to work with can be very large, and thus, I need to have a scroll area so as the dialog to stay at a logical dimension, and not to fill the entire screen (or even multiple workspaces, if we are talking about a linux machine with multiple desktops).
Everything works fine, except that the drawing (selection-rectangle) isn’t visible unless the dialog is resized – manually. I think I have to update something while drawing, but I’m not sure what. Well, here’s the example code: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1151553/
Another issues that I don’t know how to solve (and I want your suggestions there) are (1) when the user is selecting an area, how to set it to automatically scroll when the user actually selects an area by pushing against to a wall of the scroll area (I guess I am understandable here). (2) is there a way to let the user select a rectangle and then, when he left-clicks on a position with holding down the [Shift] button, the bottom right edge of his previous selection to actually go through the point he clicks at?
The documentation indicates that you have to set a Layout somehow somewhere, but I'm not sure how to do this to my occassion.
Thanks in advance for any help.
about problem (1):
just use of Event. i think mouse Enter Event or Leave Event is good for that.
and to do that i think you can use a hidden rectangular that fill the whole of the screen.
and over write the mouse leave Event for that rectangular and tell in that function , to scroll the page.
I have a cocoa application that has a finder like feel it and is made up of five views. On the left there is a gallery which is a finder like interface to choose a given object. This view stretches across the whole height of the window. Then on the right I have a window for a 3D simulation view and then below it I have three editing views. I would like to be able to press a button and have the 3d view take over the entire window and then go into fullscreen mode, and I am wondering if a more experienced Cocoa developer could give me some advice on how I might want to try this. Should I be removing all the other subviews then resizing the window and 3d view to the size of the screen or would it make more sense to try and just stretch the 3d view to the size of the screen and push the other interface pieces off the screen that way? I would like to eliminate the menu bar when this occurs to have a real full screen feel for me 3d view.
Look up the NSView method enterFullScreenMode:withOptions:. It's easier than you think.
I'm relatively new to Cocoa programming, but I've managed to figure a fair amount out. One thing I haven't been able to figure out yet is how to have an element that is visible over all views. Like a volume control that is always visible just above the tab bar at the bottom of the screen.
How should I go about doing that?
If you just need to bring a view to the front, you can use bringSubviewToFront:, like so:
[self.view bringSubviewToFront:yourSubview];
If you need to position subviews so that they overlap in a certain way, you'll want to make use of CALayer. Just be aware that overlapping UIControl elements goes against Apple's Human Interface guidelines.