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Peej
Peej

Reputation: 15

Embedding a UIContainerView as a portion of screen in a UIViewController

I have a screen in my storyboard where I would like to embed a container view into a portion of the screen. I can't figure out if I should add a new containerview or view from the object library and then drag in a collection view controller or collection view (or tackle it a different way?). I've tried all combinations but just end up with the embedded view being shown black even if I drag collection view cells and set a background colour to test it. Once I can get this working I plan to populate the cells from an external database.

Any suggestions please? I'm doing this using storyboard as far as possible. Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3012

Answers (1)

rdelmar
rdelmar

Reputation: 104082

After you drag a container view into your view, you automatically get an embedded view controller, whose size is matched to the container view's size. You should delete that controller, and drag in a UICollectionViewController. Control drag from the container view to this controller and choose embed when you let go -- this will resize the collection view controller. You can give the collection view a background color, so you will see where it is, but giving the cells a background color won't show up until you implement the methods in the controller to populate those cells.

Upvotes: 2

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