> On Mar 9, 2016, at 17:05 , Gary L. Wade <garyw...@desisoftsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure exactly about your layout, but maybe what you want are 
> supplementary views?

Supplementary views scroll with the content. I want non-scrolling views.

> --
> Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPhone)
> http://www.garywade.com/
> 
>> On Mar 9, 2016, at 3:04 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
>> 


-- 
Rick Mann
rm...@latencyzero.com



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