Why are you locking yourself into a heavily customized UICollectionViewController? Why not just use a generic UIViewController and hook up your view elements the old fashioned way?
Dan > On Mar 9, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's a severe weakness in Storyboards for which I'm hoping a better > solution exists. > > When you create a scene for say, a UICollectionView, the Storyboard makes it > very easy, but it also imposes a severe limitation. In my case, my > UICollectionViewController subclass lives inside a UINavigationController. It > manages the controls in the toolbar and the title, as well as the content. > > But inevitably I want to add additional views beneath the UINavigationBar > that are NOT CONTAINED within the UICollectionView (in this case, a > UISegmentedControl for sorting the contents). The only way I see how to do > this with Storyboards is to create two view controllers, one that embeds the > UICollectionViewController subclass. But now its impossible to wire up > UINavigationBar items to it. I've been forced to split up view control across > two view controllers that really should be one. > > This is solved by having the UICollectionView controller subclass have its > view property point to a generic containing view, and its collectionView > property point to the collectionView subview. But it's not really designed to > work this way, and Storyboards definitely doesn't support this. > > The Apple-provided way imposes a HUGE burden. > > Is there any happy middle ground? > > I've written this bug before, but Apple doesn't care. > > -- > Rick Mann > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dstenmark%40opentable.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
