Overriding drawRect in ios7 fails - overriding

For a custom layout in iOS6, i have created a subclass of UINavigationBar and overridden the drawRect method. I specify the class in interface builder, because not every controller needs to have this effect. This is also the reason why i cannot use a category.
But now with iOS7, i want to use the default navigationbar and not the overriden behaviour. The code below does not work:
-(void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
if([self isOS7]) {
[super drawRect:rect];
}
else {
// custom drawing
}
}
The problem is, by actually defining the drawRect, ios7 fails to correctly draw the navigation bar under the status bar. If i leave out the entire drawrect, it works (but then it doesn't work under older devices!
Any suggestions?

You can solve it, if you add a new UIView as a Subview and do the stuff there instead in draw rect.
UITableViewCell drawInRect iOS7

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I have created my own custom QTreeWidget, and overrided the mouseMoveEvent.
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I'm getting a hovering effect on the treewidget, when mouseMove happens (This is not expected). I have also set the focus (Qt::WA_MacShowFocusRect) to be false. But still, see the hover effect when I move the mouse in and out. I found out this is because of the line - QTreeWidget::mouseMoveEvent(aEvent), which calls the base class implementation which sets the hover. But, I need that to be called to support reorder of tree items, when mouseTracking is enabled.
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How do you make Interface Builder respect a custom view's intrinsic content size in constraint based layout?

Interface Builder in XCode 4.5 respects the intrinsicContentSize for some views, e.g. NSButton, but I can't convince it to respect it on my own custom subviews. This causes IB to add extra constraints trying to force the layout drawn in IB, which then causes the intrinsic sizes to not be used when the program is run.
For example, consider a button centered in a window, and a custom view centered in a window…
You can see that the custom view gets four constraints, presumably because IB doesn't know the view's intrinsicContentSize. You can change which extra constraints are added, e.g. you can force it to be width and height instead, but you can't delete them.
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Set a placeholder intrinsic content size — a "guess," if you will — in Interface Builder.
Select your custom view.
Show the size inspector (⌘Shift5).
Change the "Intrinsic Size" drop-down from "Default (System Defined)" to "Placeholder."
Enter reasonable guesses at your view's runtime width and height.
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How to actually do this, 2019
import UIKit
#IBDesignable class TagPerson: ShadowRoundedImageView {
override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize {
var s = super.intrinsicContentSize
s.height = 40
s.width = 40
return s
}
override func prepareForInterfaceBuilder() {
invalidateIntrinsicContentSize()
}
}
However, there is a problem. Xcode is buggy. You can sometimes reset it by:
The above will of course work flawlessly at runtime. But it randomly fails to work in interface builder (even with 11+).
To make it cycle, try
The usual 'Refresh all views'
Attach and delete a pointless constraint to one of your intrinsic size views. (I've noticed if you have a number of them, doing this to one is usually enough to make Xcode cycle, then they all work.)
And finally:
Xcode has an "intrinsic size placeholder" feature.
Select one or more of your intrinsic-size elements. Toggle the bizarre placeholder thing back and fore a few times. Often that makes it cycle and the view will then work correctly.
At worst, restarting Xcode with the usual clean-everything will, sometimes, get it working.
Ok, the point here is to make Xcode use the intrinsicContentSize of your custom view in IB.
This can be achieved by adding a placeholder view inside your custom view in IB with a fixed width and height (you can center it horizontally and vertically as well)
Then select your custom view and tap "Size To Fit Content" form the Edit Menu in IB.
At this point all extra size defining constraints will be deletable leaving only positioning ones.
That way IB will size your custom view to fit the placeholder view and and Autolayout would depend on your view's override of - (CGSize)intrinsicContentSize in run time to determine your custom view's size.
Last step is to delete the placeholder view to allow your view to display its content and size correctly:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[_placeholderView removeFromSuperview];
}
I know this is a hack but hopefully it helps you.

Qt transparent widgets

Just a quick question.
I'm building my app interface at the moment with Qt.
I set a background image for the mainpage and I use stackedWIdgets to slide from one window to another.
setStyleSheet("background-image: url(:/spherebackground.png);"
"background-repeat: no-repeat;"
"background-position: center center");
When the application starts, a page appears which is made of 3 layouts:
1) One that contains a topToolbar Widget with QPushButtons, and a label displaying the PageTitle
2) in the middle, a mainPageLayout that contains the SlidingStackedWidgets
3) the BottomToolBar
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mainPageLayout->addWidget(exprButton);
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mainPageLayout->addWidget(learnButton);
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slidingStacked->addWidget(quickAddView);
}
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void MainWindow::slideInAdd(){
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QObject::connect(goBackButton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this,SLOT(backFromAdd()));
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The thing is that I'm trying to port an application I created for the IPhone and I want it to have the same "Look and Feel" but when I slide from one page to another...
1) the animation flickers
2) I would like the sliding widgets to be transparent except for the controls (QPushButtons...)
but they have the same sphere background as the one I set up at the beginning of the code
3) My labels and controls also have the same background image when I would like them to be standard
(eg : a label should have a white background)
I can't figure out why...
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Flex 3: HBox children Scrolling with buttons

I have an HBox with width=500.
I actually want to add two arrows buttons that will scroll the contents of the HBox.
But when I turn HBox's scroll policy to off, I can't scroll it programmatically using horizontalScrollPosition.
What should i do now?
Thanks
I've hacked together this custom HBox that you could use. Simply set horizontalScrollPolicy to either "on" or "auto". I really haven't tested it all that much, works for a simple test I did...
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{
override public function validateDisplayList():void
{
super.validateDisplayList();
if (horizontalScrollBar)
horizontalScrollBar.visible = false;
}
}
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I think for what you want, you want to subclass ScrollBar make it look and feel the way you would like, then set it on your Container.horizontalScrollBar
I'm no Flex expert, but this is possible without too much trouble (using Flex SDK 3.2, anyway). You're right - when you turn off the horizontalScrollPolicy, the maxHorizontalScollPosition is set to 0, UNLESS you specify both a width value AND a maxWidth value. Then, maxHorizontalScrollPosition will again contain a useable value, and you'll be able to programmatically set the horizontalScrollPosition.

Is there a way to set the minHeight of the scroll bar thumb in Flex 3

In my project we needed to make the scollbars look like Windows scrollbars.
Therefore I have a thumbIcon on the thumb of a vertical scrollbar, but if I get too many items in the combobox, the scrollbar gets fiddly. This is because the margin between the thumbIcon and the border of the thumbSkin is too small.
Is there a way to set the minimum height of the thumbSkin so that I can ensure there is always a margin there and it always looks good, even if there are too many items?
Fiddly scroll bar http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7057/nomargins.gif
Image above, see the thumb? By the thumbIcon I mean the 3 horizontal lines. The top and bottom margin between this icon and the border of the thumb itself is too small.
Normal scroll bar http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5527/margins.gif
This is the normal scroll bar, the thumbIcon and the borders of the thumb have enough margin, which make the scroll bar look a lot better.
You should be able to extend (or if you feel really brave, edit) the ScrollThumb class, there's a minimum height setting in there of 10, which I agree is quite small.
Then you will want to extend the scrollBar class and set the style of the thumbUpSkin of to use that new extended ScrollThumb class.
Finaly you will want to extend your dropdown control to use the new extended scrollBar class.
I'd be more specific, but I'm not comfortable with extending classes and overriding stuff yet, maybe someone better at that will see my answer here and give a good code example.
There's an advantage to editing the class, in that you won't have to then extend all the other classes involved, but the disadvantage is that every ScrollBar in projects compiled on your SDK will use your new minimum height setting, and if it's compiled with a "pristine" SDK (maybe by a co-worker) it would be whatever the setting is in that SDK which could lead to some really difficult trouble-shooting in the future.
An alternative to overriding the classes is to get a reference to the the scrollThumb as a child of the ScrollBar.
var scrollThumb:ScrollThumb = hScrollBar.getChildAt(2) as ScrollThumb;
scrollThumb.minHeight = 50;
This is not ideal as it's dependent on the index of the ScrollThumb but I doubt that's likely to change and it's simpler than overriding the flex classes.
Here is the solution I found for enforcing a minimum size for the scroll thumb. I extended HScrollBar and VScrollBar and overrode the setScrollProperties method, to set the minimum size. Here is the HScrollBar version:
package your.package
{
import mx.controls.HScrollBar;
import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;
public class LargeThumbHScrollBar extends HScrollBar
{
public function LargeThumbHScrollBar()
{
super();
}
public override function setScrollProperties(pageSize:Number,
minScrollPosition:Number,
maxScrollPosition:Number,
pageScrollSize:Number = 0):void
{
super.setScrollProperties(pageSize, minScrollPosition, maxScrollPosition, pageScrollSize);
if (scrollThumb) {
scrollThumb.explicitMinHeight = 100;
}
}
}
}
For both HScrollBar and VScrollBar you set the explicitMinHeight (don't set explicitMinWidth in either version).
I'm not sure how to get the default scrollbars for a component to use the subclasses, though. I didn't have to tackle that problem because we were adding the scrollbars on ourselves. A quick google search didn't turn up any answers.

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