I've been looking through the iOS 7 / UIKIT framework, and although it looks quite different aesthetically it's really the same SDK underneath from what I can see.
My question, is there any extra code that needs to be included to get the draggable behaviour between pushed tableviews/views?
When you push a view onto a UINavigationController you can now drag back to the previous controller from the side rather than pressing the back button.
This behavior can be seen in mail.
How is this achieved, do I need to add any code to add it to my app?
This has nothing to do with UITableView or UITableViewController, but with UINavigationController. And yes, you get this behavior for free as long as the back button is visible.
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In our app we use multiple floating action buttons. With Gluon 4.4.4 we added them as layers, which had the following behaviour:
Each view had it's own FAB.
When changing the view, the FAB was hiding.
When changing back to the view, the FAB was showing.
Now, with Gluon 5.0.0 (FAB's as objects) the following happens:
The buttons get stacked over each other, when they are not hidden.
When they are hidden and we change back to a view, the FAB is no longer showing.
This led to a lot of trouble and unnecessary code lines. How can we improve this or how is it intended to be used?
We could imagine to use one FAB for the whole app and exchange it's content for each view - however, this ends up in a bigger mess as well, since it would have to be declared public etc.
Any help is appreciated :-)
You are looking for the new FloatingActionButton#showOn(View) method.
This method makes sure to automatically show and hide the FAB depending on the View's showing property, removing most of the boiler code required in earlier versions to achieve the same functionality.
From the Javadocs:
Makes sure that the FAB is automatically shown when the supplied view is shown. The FAB also automatically hides when the view is hidden. This allows the developer to not worry about calling show() and hide() methods explicitly.
I need to find what key the user pressed on a keyboard using xamarin.forms, ideally inside an AbsoluteLayout. I've come up with a few ways myself, but can't get any of them working.
As there isn't an event for this on the AbsoluteLayout control, i tried a little cheat, which was putting an entry field (textbox) on the screen, but hiding it above, so it can't be seen and using the result from that, but it loses focus when someone presses the screen or a button on the screen. so i tried adding an event to each button which refocuses the textbox once i've handled the press and this seemed ok at first, however, if they press anywhere else on the screen, it also loses focus.
I also tried adding a TapGestureRecognizer to the screen, and focusing the button when they press anywhere on the screen, however, there were 2 issues with this, the first being that it appears to only fire when something inside it is touched, and secondly, when i call the focus method for the second time (if they click the screen twice) it un-focuses the entry field, even if i check "isfocused" first (think this is a bug).
I'm only concerned about windows 8 and android apps so far. iOS may come later, but for now im just trying to get it working for these OS's. so maybe i could code it in the windows and android projects (inside my shared project solution), however, i have absolutely no idea where to even begin doing that. I mean, if this is the best way, how can i pass my AbsoluteLayout to the windows project and get it to know what it is, and convert it into a control which i can then add the event to.
Any help or advice, or ideas would be much appreciated. I cant find anything in NuGet which will help me with this. Any ideas?
Many thanks
James
I have a problem that has been solved on iOS6, but still appears if I use the iOS 5.1 simulator.
I have a default page based application. I added a "Main menu" view controller, that has three buttons that activate the root view controller containing the pages via a push segue, all defined in the storyboard.
I then added a navigation controller and made it the initial view controller.
If I pas the menu via a button and flip a few pages I can click the back button and it goes back to the menu. Good.
But I don't want the nav bar, so I hide it, and on the root view controller that contains the page view controllers I add a button which performs this action:
[self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];
This button works perfect on iOS6, I can flip a few pages, press the button and I'm back in the menu.
With the iOS 5.1 simulator however (and on my 5.1 iPad), a page flip occurs! It's a page filp until I'm on the last page and then I go back to the menu.
I searched for over two hours now but could not find a solution, I hope someone can help me with this?
Note: setting animated to NO does not solve the problem.
I did find the answer to my question, this is my first iOS project which explains why I did not find it any sooner myself.
In the default page based application there are two lines in the viewDidLoad method:
// Add the page view controller's gesture recognizers to the book view controller's view so that the gestures are started more easily
self.view.gestureRecognizers = self.pageViewController.gestureRecognizers;
First, it's not really adding but assigning that happens here, second, when I put the second line in comment, everything works as expected.
So I'm glad it solves my problem, however it raises some questions:
The gestures are started as easy as they were, so why was this line needed in the first place, what does it supposedly fix?
Why does it work in iOS6? It should have had the same problem, no?
Is it correct that it is an assignment and not an addition?
Any answers to these three are still appreciated.
Alex
I am totaly new to this site, but I already like it :-)
I found it by searching for a question about the UIPageViewController.
I have a normal UIPageViewController App, in which I open a ModalViewController for setting up some settings...
Now the Problem: :-)
If I click on the done Button on the right side of the ModalView, to dismiss it, the PageViewController turnes the page, because he thinks that he is meant by that click ;-)
Can I disable the PageViewController GestureRecognizer as long as I have a ModalView opened?
Is there a method to disable and later his recognizer?
thank you for your help in advance...
cu Matze
It seems odd that your UIPageViewController would steal touches from a modal view presented over it. Unless, perhaps, you are embedding the modal view within the content of the UIPageViewController?
To answer your question -- you can easily disable the page view controller's gesture recognizers by enumerating its gestureRecognizers property (an NSArray):
for (UIGestureRecognizer *gr in [self.pageViewController gestureRecognizers]) {
[gr setEnabled:NO];
}
Re-enable them later with setEnabled:YES.
UPDATE:
In iOS 6 UIPageViewControllerTransitionStyleScroll has been added. UIPageViewControllers that use this transition style return no gesture recognisers in the array returned by gestureRecognizers. Presumably page view controllers with this transition style use an underlying, private UIScrollView instance (it behaves just like a UIScrollView with paging enabled), although I haven't checked this.
Short Version:
"How do you get a simple UITable drill down UINavigationController-styled non-full-screen modal dialog on the iPad?"
Long version:
I have a very specific set of requirements that I can't seem to get working...
I have a functioning iPad program that that needs to pop up a non-full-screen modal view. This modal needs to have a navigation controller and a simple drill-down table that displays a detailed view that I can have edit some values related to the selected item in the table.
Of course I am looking to have the regular "Back" and "Delete" buttons in the Navigation Bar.
I can handle the detailed view, what I am having issues with:
Non-full-screen popup (mine is
always full screen no matter what I
try).
The Navigation controller will not display the Table View I tell it to and the navigation bar does not even have the title I assigned to it in IB.
I can't seem to get any of this working. If anyone has a step by step example of how to do this, that would be great,
~Eric
P.S. I am not afraid of doing this 100% programmatically, but all the examples I have been trying to follow (and failing at extending to my problem) use IB.
As for the fullscreen issue, you need to set modalPresentationStyle to UIModalPresentationFormSheet or UIModalPresentationPageSheet on the controller you want to present modally. I'm not sure of a way to do this through IB.
As for your navigation controller/table view, I think more information is needed to provide an answer.