In my iPad app, I have a number of tableviews in various places which act as selection lists. The user can scroll the list and select the item with a tap, of course. But since some of the lists can be lengthy, I also include navigation aids. In all but one of the lists, the items are alphabetized and the navigation aid is a UISearchBar (I could equally well have used a table index, but I've chosen a UISearchBar instead. I use "scroll to closest text match" logic and it works very well -- the user can usually scroll the list and make the desired selection by typing only one or two characters In most cases.)
However, for one of the lists, the table items are items which are sorted by date. The obvious navigation aid in this case is a UIDatePicker, but due to limited screen real estate, I'd rather not use it (since is is so big and can't be easily resized). So I am looking for alternatives. One alternative is to put the UIDatePicker (or perhaps another date picker such as SRMonthPicker or OCCalendar or ??) in a popover. (Presumably, the popover would be triggered by tapping a button or tapping in a UISearchBar.) This is do-able but what I really want is something that is not a popover. Ideally, I'd like something that is permanently part of the view but is only 44 pixels high (like a UISearchBar). Yet it should be easy for users to select at least a year and a month (causing the tableview to scroll the appropriate date range on screen for easy selection). I would be interested to hear from anyone who has encountered a similar situation and has implemented a solution which they find satisfactory. Cheers, Rick Aurbach Aurbach & Associates, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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
