Question

So I am using WEPopover to display a custom view controller pop up. I have a UIView in which inside it has another UIView called containerView. Inside this containerView, I have a UIButton. This is where I wanted to present my popover from. So here’s what I did:

  [self.popoverDialog presentPopoverFromRect:sender.frame inView:self.containerView permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown animated:YES];

The issue is that the arrow and everything is showing from this button, but the popover goes out of self.containerView bounds. How can I make it so that the popover is displayed within the containerView bounds?

EDIT:

A picture is worth a thousand words, so here it is:
The light gray is the containerView I mentioned above. THe popover theoretically should be shown within that light gray bounds not going outside.

Answer 1

For the view that is contained inside the popover, go to it’s view controller and set it’s property contentSizeForViewInPopover. Here you can set the size so that it fits the bounds of your containerView.

OP wants to position the popover so that it only shows up in his container view. I found this bit of code in the WEPopoverController.m file

- (void)repositionPopoverFromRect:(CGRect)rect
                       inView:(UIView *)theView
     permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirection)arrowDirections {

CGRect displayArea = [self displayAreaForView:theView];
WEPopoverContainerView *containerView = (WEPopoverContainerView *)self.view;
[containerView updatePositionWithAnchorRect:rect
                                displayArea:displayArea
                   permittedArrowDirections:arrowDirections];

popoverArrowDirection = containerView.arrowDirection;
containerView.frame = [theView convertRect:containerView.frame toView:backgroundView];

}

You could possibly call this method and it might reposition your popover so that it is now inside your container viw.