Getting back Struts and Springs

[ArtOfWarfare]

Hi guys, I thought I'd share this for anyone else who despises the new Constraints Auto-Layout system:

To turn it off, go into your interface file, choose the document tab (the leftmost one in the tab bar on the right panel.) and uncheck the box "Use Auto Layout"

And bam, just like that, it tosses out the hundreds of complicated constraints (which do anything but "just work" like Apple's docs say they do,) and takes you back to the actually auto-magical system of struts and springs.

I can't say how many times I've been working on an Android app in Eclipse and just wished they had a layout system anywhere near as simple as struts and springs. I was dumbfounded when I saw Apple had actually duplicated the freaking nightmare that is Android UI design (okay, maybe not quite duplicated... they don't force you to pick from a dozen layouts like Android.)

Oh, and as a further nail in the coffin for Constraints and Auto-Layout, it means that Snow Leopard users can't use your app. (As much as I like Lion/ML, I still hear that tons of my customers use SL, so I consider it essential that I continue to support it.)

[Senor Cuete]

I couldn't get an auxiliary panel to look right in an NSSavePanel. A popoup menu was clipped. It turned out that Auto Layout was the problem and it took me a long time to figure it out.

[nuckinfutz]

http://blog.ideveloper.tv/podcast-73/

Erica Sadun brings up a great point about how the experiences of constraints varies drastically depending on how much you use Interface Builder or not.

[gnasher729]

Originally Posted by ArtOfWarfare

Hi guys, I thought I'd share this for anyone else who despises the new Constraints Auto-Layout system:

To turn it off, go into your interface file, choose the document tab (the leftmost one in the tab bar on the right panel.) and uncheck the box "Use Auto Layout"

And bam, just like that, it tosses out the hundreds of complicated constraints (which do anything but "just work" like Apple's docs say they do,) and takes you back to the actually auto-magical system of struts and springs.

Ahem... struts and springs work "auto-magically" up to some degree, and then it breaks down. There are plenty of things that you just can't do. And good luck if you have views where the width or height can be changed to zero.

[Mark FX]

Thanks ArtOfWarfare.

I was wondering if there was a way of getting the struts and sprigs back.

Regards Mark