Noob: Setting background image

connecties · 10-15-2010, 04:04 PM

Hi,

I'm a noob to iPhone development so my question might be of questionable difficulty.

I want to create an app with an image as a background.
I want it to load at startup so I guess the code needs to go in viewDidLoad?

And then....... beats me.

Can someone lead me in the proper direction?

Kind regards,
Werner

Not_Appy_At_All · 10-15-2010, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by connecties

Hi,

I'm a noob to iPhone development so my question might be of questionable difficulty.

I want to create an app with an image as a background.
I want it to load at startup so I guess the code needs to go in viewDidLoad?

And then....... beats me.

Can someone lead me in the proper direction?

Kind regards,
Werner

Try this in viewDidLoad...

Code:

    UIImage *yourImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImageName.png"];
    UIImageView* yourImageView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:yourImage];
    yourImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460);
    [self.view addSubview:yourImageView];
    [yourImageView release];

Be sure to drag in the image..."yourImageName.png" into your resources folder.

You can also use IB...Interface Builder and avoid coding it.

SoulRed12 · 10-15-2010, 04:18 PM

While NAaA's code will work, my advice to you, connecties, would be to watch the iPhone Development Stanford podcasts. Just open iTunes, go to the iTunes store, seach for "iPhone Development", and click on the iTunes U result that is from Stanford. They are extremely helpful and will be much better for you in the long run than just copying someone else's code, because it will help you understand why the code works, and then you can modify it or recreate it later on your own if you need to. It's much better & faster to be able to understand the code so you can write it yourself than to have to search online for code to do what you want.

Good luck!

Not_Appy_At_All · 10-15-2010, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoulRed12

While NAaA's code will work, my advice to you, connecties, would be to watch the iPhone Development Stanford podcasts. Just open iTunes, go to the iTunes store, seach for "iPhone Development", and click on the iTunes U result that is from Stanford. They are extremely helpful and will be much better for you in the long run than just copying someone else's code, because it will help you understand why the code works, and then you can modify it or recreate it later on your own if you need to. It's much better & faster to be able to understand the code so you can write it yourself than to have to search online for code to do what you want.

Good luck!

Yes...

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish...and you know the rest of that.

connecties · 10-15-2010, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoulRed12

While NAaA's code will work, my advice to you, connecties, would be to watch the iPhone Development Stanford podcasts. Just open iTunes, go to the iTunes store, seach for "iPhone Development", and click on the iTunes U result that is from Stanford. They are extremely helpful and will be much better for you in the long run than just copying someone else's code, because it will help you understand why the code works, and then you can modify it or recreate it later on your own if you need to. It's much better & faster to be able to understand the code so you can write it yourself than to have to search online for code to do what you want.

Good luck!

You are so right.
Only thing is that going over the complete course takes me a lot of time.
As a seasoned and old school developer I want to get my hands dirty ;-)
(doing java for 10 years by now).

I do have the complete course downloaded on my mac and have seen the first view lessons. But as said I also want to do something. And what better way than to ask you.

Thanks for your reply.

SoulRed12 · 10-15-2010, 08:00 PM

If you already understand the basics, and can understand why NAaA's code works, then...well just using NAaA's code is fine, it's like giving someone who already knows how a car works the tools he needs to fix it. I wasn't trying to say that you have to discover everything for yourself; my only point is, (using the car example) if I went up to someone and just showed them exactly what to do without explaining it and told them to just do the same exact thing, they wouldn't be able to do it again next time and/or wouldn't be able to fix a related problem if it became necessary.