Support for iOS 5 view containment API

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Support for iOS 5 view containment API

[Inferis]

Hm, those containment APIs are new to me. I'll be watching the WWDC video soon, I guess. ;)

[myell0w]

It's pretty simple, maybe I will send over a pull request if I find the time. You basically have to tell the view when it is moving to a new superview and when it moved to a new superview.

The biggest question is: do you want backwards-compatibility with iOS 4? This would keep the need for manual forwarding of messages and would add a few if_iOS_prior_5 - calls to the code, otherwise it would simplify the code.

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Am 04.01.2012 um 21:53 schrieb Tom Adriaenssen:

Hm, those containment APIs are new to me. I'll be watching the WWDC video soon, I guess.

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[nirgolan]

From my experience with other controllers of this kind , I think that the combination of containment API + storyboards + some older view controllers (Address book's ABUnknownPersonViewController for example) is a disaster: ABUnknownPersonViewController's create/add to contact displays a modal VC that cannot be dismissed in any way.

I'm so glad I have found this controller , that does not implement the containment API.. If you do add it , maybe it should be added as an option.

[dlackty]

Agreed with @louweed.

Actually, before ViewDeck, there're already some Path-like menu clones on GitHub, and all of them use iOS5's view containment API, which means they're all not compatible with iOS 4.

I realized that we, as Cocoa developers, should always try to adopt the new technology by Apple, and I appreciated the elegant design of new APIs.

However, for current projects, it's still not feasible to drop iOS4 support yet.

[Inferis]

I'm not planning on dropping it and switch to the containment APIs. I don't see the attached property as a hack, really. Sure, the containment APIs may be a bit cleaner, but the user of the framework shouldn't worry about the innards.

I might take a look on how to implement it using containment APIs, but if and when I implement it, it will be optional.