Horizontally scrolling UIScrollView with pages of vertical scrolling views

[hveveris]

Is this even possible? A client asks for this kind of stuff - scrolling horizontally through galleries and vertically through images of horizontally selected gallery.
Please, any opinions would be very much appreciated!

[hveveris]

anyone?

[WillSDev]

do you want the scroll view to change depending on the orientation of the device, or by which way you swipe on the scrollview?

[hveveris]

Originally Posted by WillSDev

do you want the scroll view to change depending on the orientation of the device, or by which way you swipe on the scrollview?

No, no screen orientation involved. Just imagine that you hold the iphone and swipe through images horizontally which at the same time represent galleries that you can swipe vertically.

[WillSDev]

i beleive u can put a scrollviews inside the big scrollview? or you could have one big scrollview that goes up and down and enable paging.

[hveveris]

Originally Posted by WillSDev

i beleive u can put a scrollviews inside the big scrollview? or you could have one big scrollview that goes up and down and enable paging.

Well, i'm trying that now and I'm experiencing problems. It seems that the first vertical UIScrollView that gets displayed, steals touches from the horizontal container UIScrollView and I can't swipe horizontally, only vertically.

[dljeffery]

Originally Posted by hveveris

Is this even possible? A client asks for this kind of stuff - scrolling horizontally through galleries and vertically through images of horizontally selected gallery.
Please, any opinions would be very much appreciated!

This sounds totally weird/clumsy/confusing from a user experience point of view...

[WillSDev]

so u kinda want it to look like how the Playstation Experience is? with a bar going through all the stuff and then offshoots of that bar. I don't think that is a good experience for the iphone.

[hveveris]

Originally Posted by WillSDev

so u kinda want it to look like how the Playstation Experience is? with a bar going through all the stuff and then offshoots of that bar. I don't think that is a good experience for the iphone.

Yes, exactly, like the Playstation menu. And yeah, i think it would be hardly user-friendly on the iPhone, but that's not my idea ;[ I just need to know if there is any chance that this can be made.

[mpbahl]

With iPhone 3.x you can have scroll views within scroll views. Heres an article that might help Cocoa with Love: Multiple virtual pages in a UIScrollView with just 2 child views. Its not exactly what you want but it explains a lot.

[reydan]

I don't know if you've solved this by now, but you can use a UITableView where each cell is a UIScrollView.

The table view will provide smooth vertical scrolling, and then you can lock the individual scroll views to a horizontal scroll only.

There might be a problem that the TableView will capture the horizontal drag and not forward it to the scroll views, but there are some work arounds available for this.