No touch events on hidden StatusBar place

[Yza]

Hi there!

Im playing arround SDK couple of weeks but I still have a problem with recognizing touch on whole screen size. I wanna make fullscreen app - so i call in my applicationDidFinishLaunching the lines for getting rid of the StatusBar and setting the UIWindow, UIView etc. (for assuring the UIView size I manually create myRect variable)

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {	
	
	[application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];

	CGRect myRect=CGRectMake(0.0,0.0,320.0,480.0);
	
	window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
	mainView = [[MainView alloc] initWithFrame:myRect]; 
	[window addSubview:mainView];
        [window makeKeyAndVisible];

}

and now the problem - after all this ... I cant touch the place where the StatusBar was (rect from position 0,0 with height 20 pix and width 320 px).

my touchesBegan func inside the mainView

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event 
{	
	UITouch *touch = [[event allTouches] anyObject];
	CGPoint location = [touch locationInView:self];
	
	NSLog(@"loc %f, %f",location.x,location.y);
}

if is the location.y<20.0 it just dont work.
Any ideas ? I saw some apps which obiously dont have problem with this. I spent a lot of hours on google to fix it but without result.

Thank you in advance!

[Scuba]

Bump... having the same issue here.

[cpatch]

You guys aren't alone...there are several threads discussing the same problem here and over on the Apple boards. They've been there since the SDK was in beta. I have yet to see a solution.

[mxweas]

You need to make the frame of your window/view after the status bar is gone. 0.0f,0.0f is just below the status bar when its there. So, removing the status bar won't change already drawn/initialized views. But if you make a view or change a view's frame after the status bar has been removed 0.0f, 0.0f will exist on a different part of the screen

Max

[scottyelich]

I did this:

app make status bar disappear...
viewcontroller.view.frame = 0,0,320,480
window addsubview viewcontroller.view

my old frame for the view was 0,0,320,480 .. do I have to change it to
something else? (ie: does it check to see if the bounds are the same and
then just return.. let me check) nope... even when I changed the frame
to 10,10,50,50 and then to 0,0,320,480 .. still 20 dead pixels.

Scott

[peterj]

Hi,

I am having the same problem.
Does anyone has the solution for this problem?

Thanks!

[Iphonica]

hi..
we're having the same problem.
Did anyone find a solution for that?

we're using cocos2d and working on the simulator.
Is it only a simulator bug? or do we have "dead pixels" area?

appreciate your help

cheers!

[unowen]

BUMP

[mongoose250]

It's a REAL conundrum! Apple gives you two methods for removing the StatusBar but provides no way to sense touch events in the 20 pixel vacancy. Thanks for listening and responding Apple!

[BrianSlick]

Cocoa with Love: Intercepting status bar touches on the iPhone

Edit: nevermind. Misunderstood the issue.

[dbyers]

has anyone been able to find a workaround for this? i'm working on a UI that replaces the status bar with a custom toolbar.

it's so much faster to test in the simulator. guess the only workaround would be to lower the frame 20px for just simulator use.

please apple, help us out here.

[OMH]

I don't get any touch events when y<20, even when I'm on the device.
I tried various suggestions from forums, but still no change.
It's a full screen OpenGL app.

Can anyone explain this?

[festival]

Originally Posted by OMH

I don't get any touch events when y<20, even when I'm on the device.
I tried various suggestions from forums, but still no change.
It's a full screen OpenGL app.

Can anyone explain this?

as far as i found out..it's a bug in the iphone-simulator

the device recognizes the area if the status bar is gone