This morning I took the kids to our local indoor play park and settled on a chair with a bottle of something diet and started again on my code. This morning’s project was the View Switcher app from Jeff LaMarche and Dave Mark’s Beginning iPhone Development.
But I’m stuck.
I need to resize this blue bit but the size boxes are greyed out. I’m going to have to go and re-read some stuff but I can’t find a way through this.
Argh.
But what is the blue bit? If it’s the default view, you can’t have it not taking up the entire view, because it’s, um, the view. It’s like the desktop. You can’t not have it ‘full screen’.
If you want an image in the background – even one that’s just blue – add a UIImageView, and then you can bring the button to the front, so it sits over it. And you can make the View black.
I’m currently amazed at how many buttons, views, imageviews, labels and so on that make up the main screen of my application and which get turned on, hidden, make transparent, unhidden.. it’s like one of those old LCD video games where all the components are there, but waiting to be turned on.
I coloured the “view”.
Seems I coloured the backgorund to the view and not the actual view. Or something. Jeff LaMarche was very helpful. I’m going to start that project over again (a bit glum cos even getting that far took me a week (20 minutes here, 20 minutes there).
After a few years, it’ll all click.
I’m working my way through the book too – just started chapter 4.
I’m hoping to be an expert by the dev day on the 24th though.