Re: iPhone: Implementing search and index combo, like Contacts?
Re: iPhone: Implementing search and index combo, like Contacts?
- Subject: Re: iPhone: Implementing search and index combo, like Contacts?
- From: "Paul Bailey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:52:17 +0100
Your assumption is sadly incorrect.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Michael Dupuis <email@hidden>
wrote:
> I'm assuming the NDA has been lifted now, so here goes: I'm trying to
> implement a combination search and index list, in the same way that
> the 2.0 Contacts application does things, but I'm having trouble
> getting anything to work as expected.
>
> The first problem encountered is that you need to shorten the search
> field, to accommodate the index along the right-hand side, otherwise
> it overwrites the search field. Nothing I do has changed the search
> field from spanning the full width though. I'm grabbing the first item
> from the UISearchBar subviews, and resizing it in both my controller
> init method, and in my viewDidAppear and viewWillAppear methods, but
> nothing changes, it always spans the full width when the view is
> displayed, even though I've updated the rect (and printing the rect
> confirms that I've changed the bounds).
>
> I've also tried setting the autoresizingMask to UIViewAutoresizingNone
> thinking that this might be the problem, but this also showed no
> change.
>
> Another thing I've noticed is that adding the search field doesn't
> automatically add the search icon to the top of the index. I assumed
> that it would, but I'm guessing this is also custom code? It'd be
> really nice if this were "free". That said, how are we even supposed
> to add this icon? You can return the letters for the index, as they
> are strings, but I don't see a way to return an image (unicode symbol
> maybe?).
>
> I assume I'm not the only one who is trying to emulate this new 2.0
> behavior so hopefully this query will help others as well. (Bonus
> points for ideas on how to "shift" the index over when the user starts
> to type a search string...)
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