Layering in iOS (6) - button

In my app the user is able to drag a few images, those appear when he presses a button. The problem is that when I drag the UIImageView over the button and release it then I can not touch / drag the image anymore because the button is on top of it though the image is optically over the button.
So: how can I put the button in the background and the image over it?
so this is to create the UIImageView on touch.
- (IBAction)SchiffRotButton:(id)sender {
NSLog(#"setting schiffrot.png...");
[_SchiffRotImageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"schiffrot.png"]]; }
this is the button itself:
UIButton *SchiffRotBuztton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
SchiffRotBuztton.frame = CGRectMake(198, 646, 59, 59);
[UIImage imageNamed:#"schifffeldrot.png"];
by this i move the image:
-(void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
printf("touch moved \n");
UITouch *myTouch = [touches anyObject];
startPoint = [myTouch locationInView:self.view];
if ([_whichPiece isEqualToString:#"SchiffGelbImageView"])
{
_SchiffGelbImageView.center = CGPointMake(startPoint.x, startPoint.y);
}
thanks for your help
LiGe

Related

How to set a image on Navigation right bar button item?

i want to set a navigation controller's right bar button item to image so i write a code like as
UIImageView *image = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Button.png"]];
image.frame=CGRectMake(0, 25, 35, 40);
UIBarButtonItem *customButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithCustomView:image];
customButton.title=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Hi"];
[customButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Button.png"]];
it is like as i want but then button was not clickable.any solution for that????

How is this navigation control created

The second image on this page from Apple's user interface design guide show a segmented control inside of a tall navigation bar:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/mobilehig/Anatomy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006556-CH24-SW1
How has this been done? It seems to me that a UINavigationBar is always 64 pixels high, so I don't understand how they made this taller.
Is it a custom element (which would be surprising in this document), or is there an easy way to achieve this? I'm wondering if it's a UIToolbar... are they merged with the UINavigationBar under iOS 7? If so, how do we do this?
Note that I need to do this in a iPad app, where the UINavigationController is inside a split view controller.
I finally found the solution to this.
I had to override UINavigation bar with my custom subclass in order to change the height. By using the appearance proxy the title and navigation items can be repositioned correctly. Unfortunately the proxy can't be used to shift the back button's arrow up (on iOS 7), so we have to override layoutSubview to handle that.
#define kAppNavBarHeight 66.0
#implementation TATallNavigationBar
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
if (self) {
[self setupAppearance];
}
return self;
}
- (id)init
{
self = [super init];
if (self) {
[self setupAppearance];
}
return self;
}
- (void)setupAppearance {
static BOOL appearanceInitialised = NO;
if (!appearanceInitialised) {
// Update the appearance of this bar to shift the icons back up to their normal position
CGFloat offset = 44 - kAppNavBarHeight;
[[TATallNavigationBar appearance] setTitleVerticalPositionAdjustment:offset forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[RRSNavigationBar class], nil] setBackgroundVerticalPositionAdjustment:offset forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[RRSNavigationBar class], nil] setBackButtonBackgroundVerticalPositionAdjustment:offset forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[RRSNavigationBar class], nil] setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(0, offset) forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
appearanceInitialised = YES;
}
}
- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
return CGSizeMake(self.superview.frame.size.width, kNavBarheight);
}
- (void)layoutSubviews {
static CGFloat yPosForArrow = -1;
[super layoutSubviews];
// There's no official way to reposition the back button's arrow under iOS 7. It doesn't shift with the title.
// We have to reposition it here instead.
for (UIView *view in self.subviews) {
// The arrow is a class of type _UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView. We're not calling any private methods, so I think
// this is fine for the AppStore...
if ([NSStringFromClass([view class]) isEqualToString:#"_UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView"]) {
CGRect frame = view.frame;
if (yPosForArrow < 0) {
// On the first layout we work out what the actual position should be by applying our offset to the default position.
yPosForArrow = frame.origin.y + (44 - kAppNavBarHeight);
}
// Update the frame.
frame.origin.y = yPosForArrow;
view.frame = frame;
}
}
}
#end
Note that it's easy to specify your subclass in XCode: clicking on the UINavigationController gives you access to the UINavigationBar in the left hand column. Click that and change it's subclass in the inspector.
I've also created a Gist for this:
https://gist.github.com/timothyarmes/7080170

After Taking Picture cannot select Use Photo or Retake

So I'm trying to update an app for iOS 7 and I'm running into issues with my custom overlay. The overlay is an image that I'm framing the photo with (both live and using a full resolution version to frame the final result in the camera roll). The problem is that now, under iOS 7, the overlay, while transparent at the bottom, provides access to the regular "take picture" button, but for some reason will not let me tap on the "Use Photo" or "Retake" buttons that come up after the picture is snapped. Here's the code snippet calling the view controller:
- (IBAction)takePhoto:(UIButton *)sender {
UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
picker.delegate = self;
picker.allowsEditing = NO;
picker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;
picker.showsCameraControls = YES;
// Overlay Creation
UIView* overlayView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:picker.view.frame];
overlayView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"PBOverlayView.png"]];
[overlayView.layer setOpaque:NO];
overlayView.opaque = NO;
picker.cameraOverlayView = overlayView;
[self presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:NULL];
}
Another approach could be to observe the notifications when the ImagePicker changes state and remove (or disable) your overlay when you move into the "Use Photo" screen.
- (void) addPhotoObservers {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(removeCameraOverlay) name:#"_UIImagePickerControllerUserDidCaptureItem" object:nil ];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(addCameraOverlay) name:#"_UIImagePickerControllerUserDidRejectItem" object:nil ];
}
- (void) removePhotoObservers {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}
-(void)addCameraOverlay {
if (self.cameraPicker) {
self.cameraPicker.cameraOverlayView = self.myCameraOverlayView;
}
}
-(void)removeCameraOverlay {
if (self.cameraPicker) {
self.cameraPicker.cameraOverlayView = nil;
}
}
You could set User Enteraction Enabled to NO on Overlay View ;) works for me
Your problem: When you initialised the overlayView, you've set the frame to be the same size as that of the picker.
UIView* overlayView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:picker.view.frame];
Explanation: Before capturing an image, the camera buttons are in the foreground of the overlayView, so that there's no issue pressing them.
After capturing an image (on the "retake/use preview page"), the overlayView is the one to be in the foreground, thus blocking the access to the buttons.
I know this to be an issue on iOS7, and not sure about other versions.
Possible solutions: Since this is a native problem within Apple's UIImagePickerController, I can only think of two solutions: (1) If possible, configure the overlayView to have a shorter frame which doesn't cover the bottom of the picker; (2) If you need the overlay to cover these buttons, you still have the exhausting option of configuring self.imagePicker.showsCameraControls = NO; but then you'd have to customize ALL of the camera behaviour (you can find many examples for that on the web).
After taking a photo, or animation on your overlay is done, i made it work by removing the overlay from its superview.
[UIView animateWithDuration:1
delay:1
options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseOut
animations:^{
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
[self.view removeFromSuperview];
}];

iOS7 UIImagePickerController cancel button disappear

The Cancel button is miss?! How can I fix this? Thank you very much.
if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable: UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary])
{
if(buttonIndex == 1)
{
self.ctr = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
self.ctr.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
self.ctr.delegate = self;
self.ctr.allowsEditing = YES;
[self presentModalViewController:self.ctr animated:YES];
}
}
Just change the UIImagePickerController navigationBar.tintColor, it should be OK.
self.ctr.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];//Cancel button text color
[self.ctr.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:#{UITextAttributeTextColor: [UIColor blackColor]}];// title color
Looks like apple made some mistake with it (iOS 10, Xcode 8) because just changing tint color of UIImagePickerController could not be done, cause, before controller isn't have topItem property, or navigationController property. So have done the changes in UIImagePickerController extension. But I checked navigationController and topItem in those overrided methods: viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear, viewDidAppear. but it still was nil. So i decide to check it in viewWillLayoutSubviews, and voila! It's wasn't nil, so we can set bar tint color of exact rightBarButtomItem here!
Here is example:
extension UIImagePickerController {
open override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()
self.navigationBar.topItem?.rightBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.black
self.navigationBar.topItem?.rightBarButtonItem?.isEnabled = true
}
}
And don't forget to call super.viewWillLayoutSubviews, it's very important ;-)
EDIT: But it still has problems when return to the albums screen..
Change the tintColor
self.navigationBar.topItem?.rightBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.black
If that doesn't work run through your view controllers to see if there isn't a place where you changed the appearance of the navigation bar and reset the change.

What is the right way to scale a Flex application up to fullscreen?

Fullscreen mode and I have been battling for a while in this Flex application, and I'm coming up short on Google results to end my woes. I have no problem going into fullscreen mode by doing a Application.application.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;, but the rest of the content just sits there in the top, left corner at it's original size.
All right, says I, I'll just do a stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL and make it figure out how to pull this off. And it looks like it does. Except that when you mouse over the individual checkboxes and buttons and various components, they all fidget slightly. Just a slight jump up or down as they resize...on mouse over. Well, this is frustrating, but bearable. I can always just invoke invalidateSize() explicitly for all of them.
But for the comboboxes. The ones at the bottom have their menus go off the bottom of the screen, and when I pop out of fullscreen mode, their drop downs cut off half way. I have no idea how to fix that. Can someone step in here, and put me out of my misery?
What is the right way to scale a Flex application up to fullscreen?
var button:Button = button_fullscreen;
try {
if(stage.displayState == StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN) {
Application.application.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.NORMAL;
button.label = "View Fullscreen Mode";
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
} else {
Application.application.stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
button.label = "Exit Fullscreen Mode";
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.SHOW_ALL;
}
invalidateSizes(); // Calls invalidateSize() explicitly on several components.
} catch(error:SecurityError) {
Alert.show("The security settings of your computer prevent this from being displayed in fullscreen.","Error: "+error.name+" #"+error.errorID);
} catch(error:Error) {
Alert.show(error.message,error.name+" #"+error.errorID);
}
Sometimes things go wrong with flex :)
try the following approach
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
then on resize or added to stage set the scaling manually
private function updateScaling():void
{
if(stage.stageWidth != width || stage.stageHeight != height)
{
var scaling:Number = 1;
if(width>height)
{
scaling = stage.stageWidth / width;
}
else
{
scaling = stage.stageHeight / height;
}
scaleX = scaleY = scaling;
}
}

Resources