I have a view controller laid out in a storyboard with autolayout enabled and am looking for a way to change constraints to allow for my view to rotate into landscape and rearrange buttons on the screen. When I try the code below, I get about two dozen "unable to satisfy constraints, breaking constraint..." messages that I cannot really decode.
Is there a way to dynamically replace constraints from a storyboard with constraints that I specify programmatically? I want to completely override the layout of the buttons that I defined in a storyboard.
-(void)updateViewConstraints
{
[super updateViewConstraints];
self.loginButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
self.getStartedButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
self.takeTourButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
[self.loginButton removeConstraints:self.loginButton.constraints];
[self.getStartedButton removeConstraints:self.getStartedButton.constraints];
[self.takeTourButton removeConstraints:self.takeTourButton.constraints];
one = self.loginButton;
two = self.getStartedButton;
three = self.takeTourButton;
NSDictionary *metrics = @{@"height":@50.0,@"width":@100.0,@"leftSpacing":@110.0};
NSDictionary *views = NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(one,two,three);
[self.view removeConstraints:activeTestLabelConstraints];
[activeTestLabelConstraints removeAllObjects];
if(isRotatingToLandscape)
{
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|-[one(two)]-[two(three)]-[three]-|" options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllTop | NSLayoutFormatAlignAllBottom metrics:metrics views:views];
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:[one(height)]-|" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views];
}else
{
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|-leftSpacing-[one(width)]" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views];
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"[two(width)]" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views];
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"[three(width)]" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views];
[self registerConstraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:[one(height)]-[two(75)]-[three(100)]-|" options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllCenterX metrics:metrics views:views];
}
}
Updated with Rob's answer, here's the method to remove constraints that I use
-(void)removeConstraintForView:(UIView*)viewToModify
{
UIView* temp = viewToModify;
[temp removeFromSuperview];
[self.view addSubview:temp];
}