UIView. How do I constrain scaling to one dimension only

Question

I have an instance of UIScrollview containing an instance of UIView. The UIView is just a container for a horizonal array of UIImageView instances. - Zooming is provided by UIScrollView and UIScrollViewDelegate. I would like to constrain zooming to occur only along the horizontal axis with no vertical scalling at all. How to I do this?

Is there a way, for example, to subclass UIView and override the appropriate method to prevent vertical scaling? I like this approach but I am unclear on which method to override and what that overridden method should actually do.

Cheers, Doug

Answer 1

Similar to what I describe in this answer, you can create a UIView subclass and override the -setTransform: accessor method to adjust the transform that the UIScrollView will try to apply to your UIView. Set this UIView to host your content subviews and make it the subview of the UIScrollView.

Within your overridden -setTransform:, you'll need to take in the transform that the UIScrollView would like to apply and adjust it so that the scaling only takes effect in one direction. From the documentation on how CGAffineTransform matrices are constructed, I believe the following implementation should constrain your scaling to be just along the horizontal direction:

- (void)setTransform:(CGAffineTransform)newValue;
{
 CGAffineTransform constrainedTransform = CGAffineTransformIdentity;
 constrainedTransform.a = newValue.a;
 [super setTransform:constrainedTransform];
}