[nfbcs] more IOS dev questions

[Taylor Arndt]

Place  controls in a stackview  and make sure the label is pinned at zero on the left edge

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> On May 17, 2017, at 10:38 PM, Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> I had a couple more IOS development questions.
> 
> 
> First, I'm struggling a bit to figure out how to align my controls and
> I'm getting tons of ambiguous warnings.
> 
> My view has four controls: a label, an edit box, and two buttons.
> 
> I want the label to be to the left of the edit box.. The label will be
> in the upper left corner.
> 
> The label gets a constraint of top layout guide.bottom+25
> 
> It also gets a horizontal constraint of 10 just so it's not stuck on the
> far left side.
> 
> The textbox has a constraint of textbox.top=label.top
> 
> and textbox.leading=label.trailing+5
> 
> This presumably will keep everything aligned and space the textbox 5
> units away from the label's right edge.
> 
> The first button (which I want below the textbox) gets
> button1.top=textbox.bottom+20
> 
> and button1.leading=textbox.leading
> 
> This is supposed to space the button down from the textbox and align it
> with the left edge.
> 
> I also set a width and height in the constraint.
> 
> Button2 also gets button2.top=button1.bottom+20
> 
> and button2.leading = button1.leading
> 
> This to me should have everything organized, but instead I'm told that
> there are horizontal issues and ambiguities.
> 
> 
> Finally I had a question about labels.
> 
> I know visually you need to provide a label to the left of controls like
> textboxes to say what they are, but is there a way to make voiceover
> ignore that? Is that how labels are usually handled? I also don't want
> it in the tabstop list (or the flick linear list), whichever.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
> 
> 
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> 
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