iOS Create long scrolling page of controls in IB?

You could use UIScrollView ... in IB just start with a view object and change its parent in the inspector. You can then set the height of the view to larger than the actual iphone window, and add whatever controls you need in the bigger view window.

I'm messing around with something similar, although one problem I haven't sorted out yet is how to deal with several scrolling UITextViews on top of a scrollview. When I test it in the simulator, it scrolls the first text view, rather than the entire scrollview.

MarcVanH said:

I played with UIScrollView for hours with no luck. Gave up assuming it was just for images, etc.

Can you walk me through it a bit more specifically?

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In interface builder, create a new->view. Click on the view object, and open the inspector window. Look under view identity and change the class identity to "UIScrollView". Then go to the size tab (in the inspector) and change the height from 480 to 600 (or whatever).

Then you can click on your scroll view object to bring up the view window, and drag whatever controls you want from the IB library into the view.

Of course you'll still have to set up the appropriate IBOutlet variables and IBAction methods for all your controls (and possibly some delegate methods, depending on what controls you add) in the view controller.

Only caveat is there doesn't seem to be any way to scroll the scroll view in interface builder itself, so I guess your scrollview is pretty much limited to the height of your screen. If you wanted a longer view you'd probably have to do it all programmatically, rather than using interface builder...

There's no need to first create a UIView and then change its class to UIScrollView. Just use the UIScrollView from the catalog.

I've attached an example project. The one line that's required sets the content size for the scrollview. The rest is done in IB.

This should be in viewDidAppear