Composite view - repurposing a UITableView?

[jossblowing]

Hi there all,
I'm looking for a bit of advice on how I might go about implementing the following:

I have basically a big block of text - above the text I want to place an image. I'm going to apply a bit of styling around the image - a background color and maybe some attribution text.

I would like the user to be able to scroll the complete view - text and image - as if they were one single entity.

I've been experimenting with a UIViewController, that has a number of sub-views. In short - a UITextView and a UIImageView, as well as a UIView (for the background styling).

The text scrolls - but everything else remains static.


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So my question is am I somewhere on the right lines - should I be looking at UIScrollView? Maybe I have my view controller adopt the UIScrollView protocol - and then everything inside it can scroll happily?

That seems sensible - but I thought maybe I could just 'repurpose' a UITableView... but that doesn't seem quite right.

Any advice would be super helpful - many thanks for anything you can give!
>>joss

[jossblowing]

Or... is the UITextView there to allow editing of the text? So could I just use a UILabel instead? Might that make it easier to have it scroll within a UIScrollView ?

[kerofrog]

An interesting bit of knowledge is that UITableView inherits from UIScrollView and is really just an Apple customized scroll view.

You definitely want to be using a scroll view and have your image view and label view added as subviews of the scroll view.

Cliff.

[jossblowing]

That's great, thanks Cliff.

I went with a UIScrollView which contained a number of subviews, including a multiline UILabel - because I wasn't quite sure how I would subvert/delegate a UITextView's scrolling methods.

It works a treat.

A lot of this stuff is starting to make some sense - really helped by these insights by kind folks like yourself.

Many thanks again,
>>joss

[kerofrog]

Don't be afraid to work with a UITextView. You can turn off user interaction using userInteractionEnabled = FALSE and you can turn off scrolling by using scrollEnabled = FALSE etc.... there are quite a few options.