iosobjective-cuitoolbarmpvolumeview

Matching MPVolumeView and UISlider vertical positions in a UIToolBar


I have a UIToolBar that is intended to contain sliders for controlling volume and brightness. I use a MPVolumeView slider for the volume, and an ordinary UISlider for the brightness. While the sliders themselves work fine, their vertical positions are mismatched:

Mismatched UISlider and MPVolumeView

How do I get them to be on the same height?

My code:

- (void) createToolbar{

toolBar = [[UIToolbar alloc] init];
toolBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, 44);

UISegmentedControl *modeSelector = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Play", @"Rec", nil]];
[modeSelector setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar];
[modeSelector addTarget:self action:@selector(changePlayMode) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
modeSelector.selectedSegmentIndex = 0;
UIBarButtonItem *modeSelectorAsToolbarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:modeSelector];

brightnessSlider = [[UISlider alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 150, 30)];
brightnessSlider.minimumValue = 0;
brightnessSlider.maximumValue = 1;
brightnessSlider.value = [[UIScreen mainScreen] brightness];
brightnessSlider.continuous = YES;
[brightnessSlider addTarget:self action:@selector(adjustBrightness:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
UIBarButtonItem *brightSliderAsToolbarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:brightnessSlider];

MPVolumeView *volView = [[MPVolumeView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 150, 30)];
volView.showsRouteButton = NO;
UIBarButtonItem *volSliderAsToolbarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:volView];

UIBarButtonItem *flexibleSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
UIBarButtonItem *toc = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Contents" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(goToToC)];
[toolBar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:modeSelectorAsToolbarItem, flexibleSpace, brightSliderAsToolbarItem, volSliderAsToolbarItem, flexibleSpace, toc, nil] animated:NO];

toolBar.autoresizingMask |= UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;

[[self view] addSubview:toolBar];

}

(Changing the CGRectMake coordinates doesn't seem to do anything.)

A comment in the question "Custom MPVolumeView Thumb Image not vertically centered since iOS 5.1" seemed to suggest using the "Fixing thumb alignment" trick explained here, but implementing that code didn't seem to do anything as far as I could tell, and I'm not sure whether it was talking about the same problem.


Solution

  • If you create a trivial subclass of MPVolumeView and override volumeSliderRectForBounds:, you can define your own alignment for the slider rect. I like to return the whole bounds, which centers the slider in the MPVolumeView's frame

    @interface KMVolumeView : MPVolumeView
    
    @end
    
    @implementation KMVolumeView
    
    - (CGRect)volumeSliderRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds
    {
        return bounds;
    }
    
    @end
    

    Just use your subclass in code or in interface builder and you can then reliably position the volume view.