Showing posts with label CGRect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CGRect. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Better Debug for CGRect, CGPoint and CGSize

Can't remember how many times I've wanted to debug what is the size of a frame. Can't remember how many times I've written x and y coordinates, followed by width and height, to console log.

All wasted time and effort, while I could have been doing something more productive! Live and learn: just found out that iOS SDK contains helper routines for that task:

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

How to Float an Icon after UILabel

Want to place a floating icon right after a variable lenght text string - using Interface Builder? Wonderful helper that IB tool or so I thought...

First create a UITableViewCell template with IB, put there a fixed lenght UILabel followed by a UIImageView. No problems, their values are easy to setup at cellForRowAtIndexPath with view tag id numbers:
UILabel *label = nil;
UIImageView *image = nil;
CGRect frame;

// Title
label = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag:1];
label.text = @"Title text";
But how to "float" that image right after text string? UILabel is fixed sized, so that won't help. Have to check the size of label.text instead:
// Icon
image = (UIImageView *)[cell viewWithTag:10];
image.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"logo.png"];

// Icon positioning
frame = image.frame;
CGSize f = [label sizeThatFits:label.frame.size];
frame.origin.x = label.frame.origin.x + f.width + 4;
image.frame = frame;
That's it, very simple! Just beware that your tag numbers MUST be unique.

I had a problem that Interface Builder wanted to set UITableViewCell tag same as my image tag. No errors, no warnings, no indications of problem - except that I couldn't get my image frame no matter how much I banged head into brickwall! Removing tag didn't help, it just automagically came back. Ouch!