You probably want to set the content hugging priority of the button to a lower value (probably UILayoutPriorityDefaultLow). By default, buttons have an intrinsic constraint that says they don't like to grow vertically (it likes to "hug" its content strongly in the vertical direction).
[myButton setContentHuggingPriority:UILayoutPriorityDefaultLow forAxis:UILayoutConstraintAxisVertical]; Thanks, Jon On Sep 29, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote: > I am trying to wrap my head around the auto-layout functionality. > > I have a sample project at: > > http://ericgorr.net/cocoadev/constraints.zip > > After opening the project, take a look at ELGFirstViewController.xib. > > This app will only be used in landscape. > > On this XIB, there are three objects. > > (1) A button > (2) A label > (3) A Table View > > What I am looking to do is the following: > > 1. I want the table view to be a fixed height of 648 pixels. It should be the > full width of it's superview and anchored at the bottom. > 2. The label should be immediately above the table, with no vertical > separation between it and the table view. It should also be the full width of > the superview and it's height should remain fixed. > 3. The button should be located at the right, with no vertical separation > between it and the label. There should be no vertical separation between it > and top of the super view. The height of the button is what I would like to > be variable. > > I have tried playing around with the height constraint of the button, > lowering it's priority, but in every case, it is the height of the table view > that shrinks. > > How can I set up the constraints so the height of the button is variable? Is > this possible to specify within IB or is the something I will need to do in > code? > > > > I can, of course, just fix the height of the button since I know how many > pixels I will have remaining, but, again, I was interesting in learning > something about auto-layout and was having trouble resolving this problem. > > > Thank you. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/jhull%40gbis.com > > This email sent to jh...@gbis.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
