Question

I’m just starting with iOS development and I was trying to achieve something that doesn’t seem to work so far for me…

Here’s the situation:
I have a nib file in which I have placed a UITableView, and just underneath a UIToolbar. That works just fine, the scaling is fine if I try different screensizes etc… So I was happy.

But here’s the problem:
If the toolbar should be visible or not is a choice that a user can make somewhere in the application. However when the users selects to not see the toolbar I just call the method setHidden on the toolbar and pass it ‘YES’.
The toolbar is now gone when I try this but the UITableView is not strechted to the bottom of the screen which gives me quite an ugly result.

So here’s finally the question:
How can I automatically let the view stretch to the bottom when hiding toolbar? I guess I will have to do it in code (and not just some configuration option somewhere) but as I’m coming from Android this is somewhat strange for me.

Answer 1

Your best option will probably be to resize the tableview frame as you show/hide the tool bar.

CGRect frame = myTableView.frame;
frame.size.height += toolbar.frame.height;
myTableView.frame = frame;