Question

How can I programmtically specify the location of a UISegmentedControl? Setting the frame does nothing. And it seems like mySegmentedControl.frame returns the frame of the buttons and not the “bounding rectangle”.

I should note the segmented control I’m working with was added via interface builder.

Edit – more info: so I just learned that segmented controls usually go inside something like a UIToolbar. So I’ve created an IBOutlet reference to the toolbar created for me by the story board. When I log the location of this toolbar I can see the y-position as off from what I want. However setting the frame of this toolbar doesn’t seem to move it.

Answer 1

Setting the frame is the proper way to do it. There is something else going wrong in your project. You can test this with a simple single view project with a UIButton and a UISegmentedControl:

- (IBAction)buttonTapped:(id)sender {
    self.segmentedControl.frame = ((UIButton*)sender).frame;
    ((UIButton*)sender).hidden = YES;
}

This will set the segmented control with the same location & size as the button and then hide the button.