UIScrollView custom paging size

Question

paging in UIScrollView is a great feature, what I need here is to set the paging to a smaller distance, for example I want my UIScrollView to page less size that the UIScrol

Answer 1

You should disable paging and add a UIPanGestureRecognizer to your scroll view and handle the paging yourself.

- (void)viewDidLoad {

    [super viewDidLoad];
    CGRect viewRect = self.view.bounds; // View controller's view bounds
    theScrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:viewRect]; 

    theScrollView.scrollsToTop      = NO;
    theScrollView.pagingEnabled         = NO;
    theScrollView.delaysContentTouches  = NO;
    theScrollView.delegate = self;

    [self.view addSubview:theScrollView];

    UIPanGestureRecognizer * peter = [[[UIPanGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self  
                                                                              action:@selector(handlePan:)]
                                       autorelease]; 
    [theScrollView addGestureRecognizer:peter]; 

}

-(void)handlePan:(UIPanGestureRecognizer*)recognizer{

    switch (recognizer.state) {
    case UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan:{
        // panStart and startPoint are instance vars for the viewContainer 
        panStart = theScrollView.contentOffset;
        startPoint = [recognizer locationInView:theScrollView]; 
        
        
        break;
    }
    case UIGestureRecognizerStateChanged:{
                    
        CGPoint newPoint = [recognizer locationInView:theScrollView];
        CGFloat delta = startPoint.x - newPoint.x;
        if ( abs(delta) > 2)
            theScrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake( theScrollView.contentOffset.x + delta, 0); 
        
        CGFloat moveDelta = panStart.x - theScrollView.contentOffset.x;                               
        

        // current witdh should hold the currently displayed page/view in theScrollView
        if ( abs(moveDelta) > (currentWidth * 0.40)){
            panStart = theScrollView.contentOffset;
            startPoint = newPoint;
            
            //NSLog(@"delta is bigger"); 
            if ( moveDelta < 0 )
                [self incrementPageNumber]; // you should implement this method and present the next view
            else 
                [self decrementPageNumber]; // you should implement this method and present the previous view
   
            recognizer.enabled = NO; // disable further event until view change finish
                 
        }
        
        break; 
    }
        
    case UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded:
    case UIGestureRecognizerStateCancelled:

        recognizer.enabled = YES; 
        [self showDocumentPage:currentPage]; 
        
        break;
        
        
    default:
        break;
    }
}