Say that I have a project which looks like the following:
There are two UIView
s - one called yellowBox
and the other called redBox
. The auto layout constraints dictate that the yellowBox
is 60 points from the top of the superview with 350 points leading and trailing spaces (i.e. to left and right of the view). The redBox
has the same leading and trailing space constraints. There is a vertical space constraint between the two boxes of 0 to indicate that the bottom of the yellowBox
should always be directly on top of the redBox
.
When the user taps the Expand Yellow Box button, I would like the height of the yellowBox
to increase and, as a result, the redBox
moves down to continue satisfying the vertical space constraint (that the yellowBox
is always on top of the redBox
). Here is the animation code:
- (IBAction)expandYellowBox:(id)sender {
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5
animations:^{
CGRect newFrame = self.yellowBox.frame;
newFrame.size.height += 50;
self.yellowBox.frame = newFrame;
}];
}
However, I have been unable to get this working properly. As you can see by the red icon, there is a problem with the constraints at the moment:
which is fair enough, as there's no way for auto layout to know the height of the boxes. However, I don't know how to resolve this issue in such a way that it will allow for the boxes to be resized and moved. For example, if I specify a height constraint on the yellowBox
then that will prevent it from being resized. If I set the height constraint to be greater than or equal (to allow the yellowBox
height to increase) then I get a different constraint error:
All constraints have been established using Xcode in the storyboard - none have been written in code.
Any help greatly appreciated.
EDIT: As it turns out, the yellowBox
is growing when the button is clicked - it's just I couldn't tell because it appears behind the redBox
. I only noticed after clicking it around four times and it started appearing out the bottom of the redBox
. However, the same question still remains - how to get the redBox
to always stick to the bottom of the yellowBox
.