I might be misunderstanding, but why not just use a regular UIViewController scene, throw a collection view in it, throw your other view into it too, and then conform to UICollectionViewDataSource and -Delegate “manually”?
It’s a few more outlets to connect by hand but isn’t UICollectionViewController (itself; as a class) essentially a convenience? Or is there functionality obtainable via UICollectionViewController only? Peter > On Mar 9, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> 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 > rm...@latencyzero.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > 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/vast.grapes%40gmail.com > > This email sent to vast.gra...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
