Disabling the top status bar for an application

[Chris Stewart]

Can anyone tell me (or point me to some documentation) how I can disable the top status bar while my application is running?

[tawpie]

[application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];

(I put in the appDelegate in applicationDidFinishLaunching)

[Chris Stewart]

Thanks!

[Yza]

Hi!

for disabling status bar I use the same method
[application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];

but ?!? Is your touchesBegan working properly in area of this hidden status bar ?

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/vi....php?f=7&t=827
I started this thread day ago, but no one answer me

[torynfarr]

Originally Posted by Yza

Hi!

for disabling status bar I use the same method
[application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];

but ?!? Is your touchesBegan working properly in area of this hidden status bar ?

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/vi....php?f=7&t=827
I started this thread day ago, but no one answer me

I've had the same issue for awhile now and haven't been able to resolve it yet.

As a side note, using [application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO]; will disabled the status bar once your app fully loads. If you edit the info.plist file and add a line as a boolean variable "UIStatusBarHidden" and checkmark it.... the statusbar will be hidden from the get-go (i.e. hidden while default.png displays - before your app is fully loaded)

If anyone can solve this issue with the 20 pixel wide/tall (depending on the view orientation) area under the status bar not being touchable, you'll make my month!

-Toryn

[torynfarr]

I've taken a screenshot that displays a rough approximation of the area that isn't touchable. I've got code displaying the location of the touch when it's moved. As soon as I slide my finger to the left edge (X=59)... I reach a dead zone. There's a 20 pixel area where the status bar would normally be that doesn't respond to touches.



-Toryn

[sbwoodside]

I've got exactly the same problem. I tried debuggin with UIViewExtras and found that even after hiding the status bar I still have this:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
  NSLog(@"frame before = %@", NSStringFromCGRect([[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame]));
  [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
  NSLog(@"frame after = %@", NSStringFromCGRect([[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame]));
  // later...
  [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO animated:NO];
  NSLog(@"\n%@", [self.view.window description]);

gives:

2009-02-24 01:18:16.539 Unitron[62822:20b] frame before = {{0, 0}, {320, 20}}
2009-02-24 01:18:16.540 Unitron[62822:20b] frame after = {{0, 0}, {0, 0}}
+ UIWindow retain:2 - tag:0 - bgcolor:(r:255 g:255 b:255 a:1.00)
   bounds: x:0 y:0 w:320 h:480 - frame: x:0 y:0 w:320 h:480 - center: x:160, y:240
++ UILayoutContainerView retain:4 - tag:0 - bgcolor:(r:0 g:0 b:0 a:1.00)
    bounds: x:0 y:0 w:320 h:460 - frame: x:0 y:20 w:320 h:460 - center: x:160, y:250
....

So that the frame on that second view looks like the culprit (y=20). But if I set it directly it totally screws up the display of all of the views, like haywire. So, that didn't work.

Has anyone figured this out? This is driving me INSANE!!!!!!!!

[sbwoodside]

Any of you guys figure this one out?!?!

[GregX999]

Has anyone figured out this 20 pixel dead space issue in the four months since the last post?

I just ran into it myself...

Greg

[boburs]

Originally Posted by GregX999

Has anyone figured out this 20 pixel dead space issue in the four months since the last post?

I just ran into it myself...

Greg

Not only that, buttons won't respond in that space either. Any fixes yet?

Bob

[Kalimba]

Originally Posted by boburs

Not only that, buttons won't respond in that space either. Any fixes yet?

Bob

Are you experiencing this problem in the simulator, on your device, or both? I believe this is a shortcoming, but nevertheless expected behavior, when running on the simulator, but should not happen when running on a device.

[softwarespecial]

go to the info.plist and in there under the key create a new box and type in it UIStatusBarHidden Then to the box beside it. WIch is its Value You ctrl mouse click or right mouse click and then go down the list to Value Type and then from There click Boolean and then have it checked marked. (Note I was taught this by Jason Rogers who is a Member here)

[boburs]

Originally Posted by Kalimba

Are you experiencing this problem in the simulator, on your device, or both? I believe this is a shortcoming, but nevertheless expected behavior, when running on the simulator, but should not happen when running on a device.

Yes, thanks for pointing this out. Works fine on the device.

Bob

[boburs]

Originally Posted by softwarespecial

go to the info.plist and in there under the key create a new box and type in it UIStatusBarHidden Then to the box beside it. WIch is its Value You ctrl mouse click or right mouse click and then go down the list to Value Type and then from There click Boolean and then have it checked marked. (Note I was taught this by Jason Rogers who is a Member here)

Yes that also works to hide the Status Bar, but buttons still do not work in that region.

Bob

[softwarespecial]

Originally Posted by boburs

Yes that also works to hide the Status Bar, but buttons still do not work in that region.

Bob

they have for me even in the simulator when I do it that way.

[finefin]

Originally Posted by torynfarr

... If you edit the info.plist file and add a line as a boolean variable "UIStatusBarHidden" and checkmark it.... the statusbar will be hidden from the get-go (i.e. hidden while default.png displays - before your app is fully loaded) ...

thank you very much. that was exactly what I was looking for.

[loboadmin]

I am writing a flash card app and I need all the screen real estate I can get, and that status bar was not working for me. I could make it disappear, but could not get that top bar space back. By editing the info.plist for the app and adding the UIStatusBarHidden = checked. That gave me back the top bar space and worked great.

Thanks. You guys are making it easy on this newbie....

Mark B.
St. Louis

Originally Posted by finefin

thank you very much. that was exactly what I was looking for.