Resizing a Web View that has already been created

brian515 · 03-05-2009, 09:24 PM

Hi,
I made a webview in interface builder, and I want it to scale down to half the width, and the same hight on an IBAction. So I used the CGAffineTransformMakeScale to resize scale the view. The only problem is that the webpage inside of the webview gets scaled with the view, and therefore is distorted. Is there a way to make my webview resize instead of scale so that the content does not get scaled with the webview as well? Thanks!

tawpie · 03-05-2009, 09:55 PM

have you tried resetting the .frame property of your webView? I haven't played with webViews, but UIView allows changing the size and location of the frame at will.

brian515 · 03-05-2009, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tawpie

have you tried resetting the .frame property of your webView? I haven't played with webViews, but UIView allows changing the size and location of the frame at will.

How would I do that? Sorry if this is a rudimentary question.

I also forgot to mention, I tried doing:

Code:

webView1 = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:(CGRectMake:0.0, 0.0, 240.0, 320.0)];

to no avail.
Yes, I did declare webView1 as an instance in the .h.

**Steaps** · 03-05-2009, 10:02 PM

Code:

webView.frame = CGRectMake(webView.frame.origin.x, webView.frame.origin.y, webView.frame.size.width / 2, webView.frame.size.height);

That should do the trick. It might need to be refreshed, not sure, but i don't think so.

EDIT: Are you adding the WebView to the Subview?

Code:

[self.view addSubview:webView];

brian515 · 03-05-2009, 10:05 PM

Thanks a ton for your speedy reply. Setting the frame properties did the trick!

I can't believe it was that simple!

**Steaps** · 03-05-2009, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brian515

Thanks a ton for your speedy reply. Setting the frame properties did the trick!

I can't believe it was that simple!

No problem (I think it was me who helped, if not, this is embarrassing

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Newbie09 · 06-02-2009, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steaps

Code:

webView.frame = CGRectMake(webView.frame.origin.x, webView.frame.origin.y, webView.frame.size.width / 2, webView.frame.size.height);

That should do the trick. It might need to be refreshed, not sure, but i don't think so.

EDIT: Are you adding the WebView to the Subview?

Code:

[self.view addSubview:webView];

I have the same problem.
http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/ip...ide-frame.html

CGRect smallViewRect = CGRectMake(0, 310, 320, 150);
[smallView frame:smallViewRect];
[homeView addSubview:smallView];

This almost does the same stuff that you did in your example. This does not work for me. What could be the reason?

ahalls · 05-25-2010, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steaps

Code:

webView.frame = CGRectMake(webView.frame.origin.x, webView.frame.origin.y, webView.frame.size.width / 2, webView.frame.size.height);

That should do the trick. It might need to be refreshed, not sure, but i don't think so.

This is a great thread ... but how can I detect that the UIWebView is not big enough and how big it should be?