iOS frame change one property (eg width)

Question

This question was originally asked for the objective-c programming language. At the time of writing, swift didn\'t even exist yet.

Question

Is it po

Answer 1

Based on ArtOfWarfare's solution (which is really awesome) I've build the UIView category without C-functions.

Usage examples:

[self setFrameWidth:50];
self.frameWidth = 50;
self.frameWidth += 50;
self.frameWidth = otherView.frameWidth; // as opposed to self.frameWidth = otherView.frame.size.width;

Header file UIView+easy_frame.h:

@interface UIView (easy_frame)

- (void) setFrameWidth:(CGFloat)width;
- (void) setFrameHeight:(CGFloat)height;
- (void) setFrameX:(CGFloat)x;
- (void) setFrameY:(CGFloat)y;

- (CGFloat) frameWidth;
- (CGFloat) frameHeight;
- (CGFloat) frameX;
- (CGFloat) frameY;

Implementation file UIView+easy_frame.m:

#import "UIView+easy_frame.h"
@implementation UIView (easy_frame)

# pragma mark - Setters

- (void) setFrameWidth:(CGFloat)width
{
  self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x,
                          self.frame.origin.y,
                          width,
                          self.frame.size.height);
}

- (void) setFrameHeight:(CGFloat)height
{
  self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x,
                          self.frame.origin.y,
                          self.frame.size.width,
                          height);
}

- (void) setFrameX:(CGFloat)x
{
  self.frame = CGRectMake(x,
                          self.frame.origin.y,
                          self.frame.size.width,
                          self.frame.size.height);
}

- (void) setFrameY:(CGFloat)y
{
  self.frame = CGRectMake(self.frame.origin.x,
                          y,
                          self.frame.size.width,
                          self.frame.size.height);
}

# pragma mark - Getters

- (CGFloat) frameWidth
{
  return self.frame.size.width;
}

- (CGFloat) frameHeight
{
  return self.frame.size.height;
}

- (CGFloat) frameX
{
  return self.frame.origin.x;
}

- (CGFloat) frameY
{
  return self.frame.origin.y;
}

Answer 2

-(void) sizeScreen : (UIView *) size : (double) width : (double) height : (double) x : (double) y {
CGRect frameRect = size.frame;
frameRect.size.width = width;
frameRect.size.height = height;
frameRect.origin.x = x;
frameRect.origin.y = y;
self.view.frame = frameRect;

}

its work great for me :)

Answer 3

To answer your original question: yes, it's possible to change just one member of a CGRect structure. This code throws no errors:

myRect.size.width = 50;

What is not possible, however, is to change a single member of a CGRect that is itself a property of another object. In that very common case, you would have to use a temporary local variable:

CGRect frameRect = self.frame;
frameRect.size.width = 50;
self.frame = frameRect;

The reason for this is that using the property accessor self.frame = ... is equivalent to [self setFrame:...] and this accessor always expects an entire CGRect. Mixing C-style struct access with Objective-C property dot notation does not work well in this case.

Answer 4

Based on n0_quarter answer, here's a UIView Extension written in Swift:

/**
*  Convenience category for manipulating UIView frames
*/
extension UIView {

    //MARK: - Getters
    func frameX() -> CGFloat {
        return frame.origin.x
    }

    func frameY() -> CGFloat {
        return frame.origin.y
    }

    func frameWidth() -> CGFloat {
        return frame.size.width
    }

    func frameHeight() -> CGFloat {
        return frame.size.height
    }

    //MARK: - Setters
    func setFrameX(x: CGFloat) {
        frame = CGRect(x: x, y: frame.origin.y, width: frame.size.width, height: frame.size.height)
    }

    func setFrameY(y: CGFloat) {
        frame = CGRect(x: frame.origin.x, y: y, width: frame.size.width, height: frame.size.height)
    }

    func setFrameWidth(width: CGFloat) {
        frame = CGRect(x: frame.origin.x, y: frame.origin.y, width: width, height: frame.size.height)
    }

    func setFrameHeight(height: CGFloat) {
        frame = CGRect(x: frame.origin.x, y: frame.origin.y, width: frame.size.width, height: height)
    }
}

Answer 5

frequently call setFrame method is not so good, like: setFrameX(x) setFrameY(y) setFrameWidth(width) ...

instead, in swift we can make use of default parameters to set multiple parameters only in one call:

func setFrame(x x: CGFloat = CGFloat.NaN, y: CGFloat = CGFloat.NaN, width: CGFloat = CGFloat.NaN, height: CGFloat = CGFloat.NaN) {
    let newX = x.isNaN ? self.frame.origin.x : x
    let newY = y.isNaN ? self.frame.origin.y : y
    let newWidth = width.isNaN ? self.bounds.size.width : width
    let newHeight = height.isNaN ? self.bounds.size.height : height

    self.frame = CGRect(x: newX, y: newY, width: newWidth, height: newHeight)
}

then update parameters of frame only need:

setFrame(x: x, width: min(maxX - x, titleLabel.bounds.size.width))
setFrame(width: titleDescriptionLabel.bounds.size.width + 5, height: titleDescriptionLabel.bounds.size.height + 6)

Answer 6

I liked Ahmed Khalaf's answer, but it occurred to me that you may as well just write out a few C functions... the key advantage being that it'll be easier to track down errors in the event that you're using the wrong type.

Having said that, I wrote a .h file with these function declarations:

CGRect CGRectSetWidth(CGRect rect, CGFloat width);
CGRect CGRectSetHeight(CGRect rect, CGFloat height);
CGRect CGRectSetSize(CGRect rect, CGSize size);
CGRect CGRectSetX(CGRect rect, CGFloat x);
CGRect CGRectSetY(CGRect rect, CGFloat y);
CGRect CGRectSetOrigin(CGRect rect, CGPoint origin);

And a corresponding .m file with these function implementations:

CGRect CGRectSetWidth(CGRect rect, CGFloat width) {
    return CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y, width, rect.size.height);
}

CGRect CGRectSetHeight(CGRect rect, CGFloat height) {
    return CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y, rect.size.width, height);
}

CGRect CGRectSetSize(CGRect rect, CGSize size) {
    return CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y, size.width, size.height);
}

CGRect CGRectSetX(CGRect rect, CGFloat x) {
    return CGRectMake(x, rect.origin.y, rect.size.width, rect.size.height);
}

CGRect CGRectSetY(CGRect rect, CGFloat y) {
    return CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, y, rect.size.width, rect.size.height);
}

CGRect CGRectSetOrigin(CGRect rect, CGPoint origin) {
    return CGRectMake(origin.x, origin.y, rect.size.width, rect.size.height);
}

So, now, to do what you want, you can just do:

self.frame = CGRectSetWidth(self.frame, 50);

Get even Fancier (update I made a year later)

This has a redundant self.frame in it, though. To fix that, you could add a category on UIView with methods that look like this:

- (void) setFrameWidth:(CGFloat)width {
    self.frame = CGRectSetWidth(self.frame, width); // You could also use a full CGRectMake() function here, if you'd rather.
}

And now you can just type in:

[self setFrameWidth:50];

Or, even better:

self.frameWidth = 50;

And just so you can do something like this:

self.frameWidth = otherView.frameWidth; // as opposed to self.frameWidth = otherView.frame.size.width;

You'll need to also have this in your category:

- (CGFloat) frameWidth {
    return self.frame.size.width;
}

Enjoy.