Fixed portrait position

[Malek Trabelsi]

Hi, my app support portrait and landscape orientations, but when using the UAModalPanel view, I need that (UAModalPanel) to be fixed to portrait orientation. I don't find a suitable property in the class UIModalPanel.h to do so. Can you provide a workaround to fix that ?

[Matt Coneybeare]

Rotation is handled by you. If you want to do this the easiest way, show the panel in the applications window, not the view controller's view.

[Malek Trabelsi]

Hi, ok so now I have two small issues, when I add the panel to the window, panel's subview appear in the background not as subviews, and also the panel frame is not drawn properly because I want it to fill all the screen. Here is my relevant code if you can help me:

    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"startscreen.jpg"];
    modalPanel = [[UAModalPanel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, image.size.width, image.size.height)];
    modalPanel.margin = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0);

    splashImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
    splashImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, image.size.width, image.size.height);
    [modalPanel addSubview:splashImageView];//this doesn't show the image view as a subview
    [[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate window]addSubview:modalPanel];//Add to the app window

[Matt Coneybeare]

Your modal panel should have the same frame as the window. Your splashImageView should be added to the modalPanel.contentView. If you still can't get it this way, simply prevent auto-rotation on your view controller until after the panel has been dismissed.

[Malek Trabelsi]

Yes, I tried to add it as subview of the contentView, but it still appear behind the modalPanel, that's weird:

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"startscreen.jpg"];
modalPanel = [[UAModalPanel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, image.size.width, image.size.height)];
modalPanel.margin = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0);

splashImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
splashImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, image.size.width, image.size.height);
[modalPanel.contentView addSubview:splashImageView];//this still doesn't show the image view as a subview
[[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate window]addSubview:modalPanel];//Add to the app window

[Matt Coneybeare]

upload a screenshot of what you are seeing?

[Malek Trabelsi]

I can see the splash image view under the modal panel view, it should be above and shown as subview, I am missing something surely

[Matt Coneybeare]

Check the example project. There is a clear sample of loading an image there. I would use that as your starting point to see where and how your code differs.

[Malek Trabelsi]

Here is the example code:

    UIImageView *iv = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero] autorelease];
    [iv setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"UrbanApps.png"]];
    [iv setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
   //get random view and assign it to a variable "v"
    [self.contentView addSubview:v];

Here is my updated code:

    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"startscreen.jpg"];
    modalPanel = [[UAModalPanel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 20, image.size.width, image.size.height)];
    modalPanel.margin = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0);

    splashImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    [splashImageView setImage:image];
    [splashImageView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];
    [modalPanel.contentView addSubview:splashImageView];//this still doesn't show the image view as a subview
    [[[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate window]addSubview:modalPanel];//Add to the app window

Still getting exactly the same issue

[Matt Coneybeare]

how are you showing the panel?

[Malek Trabelsi]

Hi @coneybeare I have fixed the issue thanks to your help, actually I was adding the background image as the UIViewController subview in the code, so I removed that and now all is ok. Thanks.