Found some tutorials for the pull to refresh method for IOS 6.0 and above. I am not good enough to understand where to put the code, but maybe it is not too hard for one of our Code Gurus? http://www.intertech.com/Blog/ios-6-pull-to-refresh-uirefreshcontrol/ I would like to add this to my Custom URL screens. Maybe someone could explain where to put what to make this work for the BT plugins.

I can't say if it will work or not; I haven't tested it. You would want to alter your BT_screen_customURL.m file. "Step 1" is a method on it's own. copy paste the entire thing outside of any other method in your BT_screen_customURL.m file. "Step 2-3-4" should go in the BT_screen_customURL.m file's 'viewDidLoad' method, usually located towards the top of the plugin; the first or second method listed, typically (although not always) You may (or may not) need additional edits to get this to work, but that's where it goes. Cheers! -- Smug

Following error if I copy where you said under the viewdidload part: "Property 'refreshControl' not found on object of type 'BT_screen_customURL"

looks like a syntax error. Not yours; theirs. I 'suspect' the line causing the error is: self.refreshControl = refresh; try changing: UIRefreshControl *refresh = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; to this: UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; and see if that makes a difference. They're declaring it as one value, and calling it with another (that doesn't exist). Anyway, try it. Cheers! -- Smug

That brings us to 4 errors ;-) Initial error stays the same and 3 further errors are called: Use of undeclared identifier 'refresh' Really appreciate you trying to help me out. Think it would be a fantastic feature for all of us if it works!

Before we get too far into this, what info are you trying to refresh…? Consider this: It's a custom URL, which means it's a web page. The code we're inserting is a refresh of the 'plugin', but not necessarily the content of the plugin. If you just want to reload the webpage, why not use a context menu with a link to the same customURL page, and call it 'refresh'…? Cheers! -- Smug

I am refreshing it with the bottom toolbar at the moment and don't like the look of it. For sure a right navbar button would be an option but the pull to refresh function is known by most users now and looks very pretty and even more important: professional! Oh and yes, I need it to refresh the content ; A simple .php script I wrote that gets the input from a sql database. Bottom refresh button does the job, just doesn't look nice.

We need some Pong pull to refresh. http://maniacdev.com/2014/01/fun-open-source-ios-pull-to-refresh-control-that-plays-pong-on-pulls

Well in that case, I'd try to do this: figure out what the errors in this code is, and squelch them. In line 5 of the steps 2-4 image of the above link, I'd change: action:@selector(refreshView:) to: action:@selector(refreshData:) which is the refresh method for the button you don't like. this will keep it simple while giving you the behavior you want. It's after midnight here, so I'm gone for the day. Good luck and I'll check back tomorrow. Cheers! -- Smug

OK well will keep trying, but looking forward to you coming back to this, as I will probably not solve it.

shameless plug I'm away from my mac, but if you check out my super cool pop up webview I added that feature especially to save button space. It's literally only 3 lines of code

Well I have your plugin Kittsy (as all of them) so will have a look right away!

search for uirefreshcontrol alot of that plugins code has been lifted from the custom url screen. It will be sourounded in if statements as obviously it will only pull to refresh if the webview can scroll and bounce

So you got 2 parts of code in your AK:MDBrowser.m file: 1st part: if ([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:appDelegate.rootApp.currentScreenData nameOfProperty:@"allowPullRefresh" defaultValue:@"1"]isEqualToString:@"1"]) { UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(handleRefresh:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; [browser.scrollView addSubview:refreshControl]; } 2nd part: -(void)handleRefresh:(UIRefreshControl *)refresh { [BT_debugger showIt:self theMessage:@"refresh"]; montesino_appDelegate *appDelegate = (montesino_appDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; //refresh original page or starting file? if([browser canGoBack]){ [browser reload]; }else{ NSURL *remoteURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:appDelegate.rootApp.currentScreenData nameOfProperty:@"itemNickname" defaultValue:@"http://www.google.co.uk"]]; NSURLRequest *URLReq = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:remoteURL]; [browser loadRequest:URLReq]; } [refresh endRefreshing]; } So where to put what? I assume the date of last refresh is not displayed as in the other code I posted? Is it difficult to add that?

With your tutorial its this //view will appear -(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{ [super viewWillAppear:animated]; [BT_debugger showIt:self theMessage:@"viewWillAppear"]; //load url if(didInit == 0){ didInit = 1; [self initLoad]; } //show adView? if([[BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:self.screenData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"includeAds" defaultValue:@"0"] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ [self showHideAdView]; } //add code below UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(refreshView:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; refreshControl.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Refreshing data..."]; [webView.scrollView addSubview:refreshControl]; } //This method below is new -(void)refreshView:(UIRefreshControl *)refresh { refresh.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Refreshing data..."]; if([webView canGoBack]){ [webView reload]; }else{ [self initLoad]; } NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM d, h:mm a"]; NSString *lastUpdated = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Last updated on %@",[formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]]; refresh.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:lastUpdated]; [refresh endRefreshing]; }

Wow, thx a lot again Kittsy and Smug, you guys just rock! Only thing it does not show is the cool pull down graphic ; Instead it is a circle that closes the more you pull down. Ok for me, but possible to have the pull down graphic like in the tutorial too?

That pull down graphic is ios 6 and below check in simulator in ios 7 it's not the stretchy one

Ios 6 in the tutorial I mean

got it! kinda sad, as thee stretchy one is much nicer ;-) I noticed that if I pull down a bit further then needed I can see the spinning wheel and update status text twice, sometimes 3 times. Bug?

Move this to the viewdidload method instead UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(refreshView:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; refreshControl.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Refreshing data..."]; [webView.scrollView addSubview:refreshControl]; See if that solves it

At the end of the method

hmm, seems I am always too stupid to know where to exactly place the code. Whatever I try I get errors, so maybe a last bit of help? Feeling ashamed to ask.

Kittsy, could you tell me where to exactly put the code? Cant get it to work.

The bottom of this method //viewDidLoad -(void)viewDidLoad{ [BT_debugger showIt:self theMessage:@"viewDidLoad"]; [super viewDidLoad]; //init screen properties [self setBrowserToolBar:nil]; self.externalURL = @""; self.didInit = 0; //get the dataURL to load. Remember it in externalURL so we can open native browser to current url... self.dataURL = [BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:self.screenData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"dataURL" defaultValue:@""]; [self setExternalURL:dataURL]; //appDelegate popupwebview_appDelegate *appDelegate = (popupwebview_appDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]; //the height of the webView depends on whether or not we are showing a bottom tool bar. int browserHeight = self.view.bounds.size.height; int browserWidth = self.view.bounds.size.width; int browserTop = UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(self.interfaceOrientation) ? 0 : 0; if(![appDelegate.rootDevice isIPad]){ browserTop = UIInterfaceOrientationIsPortrait(self.interfaceOrientation) ? 0 : 10; } if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"navBarStyle" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"hidden"]){ browserTop = 0; } //get the bottom toolbar (utility may return nil depending on this screens data) browserToolBar = [BT_viewUtilities getWebToolBarForScreen:self theScreenData:[self screenData]]; if(browserToolBar != nil){ browserToolBar.tag = 49; browserHeight = (browserHeight - 44); } //webView self.webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, browserTop, browserWidth, browserHeight)]; self.webView.delegate = self; self.webView.scalesPageToFit = YES; [self.webView setOpaque:NO]; self.webView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; self.webView.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth); //data detector types... if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"dataDetectorType" defaultValue:@"1"] isEqualToString:@"0"]){ self.webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeNone; }else{ self.webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll; } if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"preventUserInteraction" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ [self.webView setUserInteractionEnabled:FALSE]; } [self.view addSubview:webView]; /* //fix up web-view.. In iOS 3.1 < UIScrollView repors as UIScroller (not sure this changed?). UIScrollView has different methods. */ for(UIView* subView in [self.webView subviews]){ //ios sometimes put's images behind web-views (like shadows)... hide these if([subView isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]){ [subView setHidden:YES]; } //ios sometimes puts images behind web-view sub-views (like shadows behind UIScrollViews)..hide these for(UIView* shadowView in [subView subviews]){ if([shadowView isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]){ [shadowView setHidden:YES]; } } //UIScrollView *tmp = (UIScrollView *)subView; //enable, disable scrolls to top (disables status bar tap-to-top property) if([subView respondsToSelector:@selector(setScrollsToTop:)]){ //[tmp setScrollsToTop:scrollsToTop]; } //hide vertical scroll bar if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"hideVerticalScrollBar" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ if([subView respondsToSelector:@selector(setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:)]){ [(UIScrollView *)subView setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:FALSE]; } } //hide horizontal scroll bar if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"hideHorizontalScrollBar" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ if([subView respondsToSelector:@selector(setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:)]){ [(UIScrollView *)subView setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:FALSE]; } } //scroll bounce.. if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"preventScrollBounce" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ if([subView respondsToSelector:@selector(setBounces:)]){ [(UIScrollView *)subView setBounces:FALSE]; } } //prevent scrolling in iOS 3.1 < if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"preventAllScrolling" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ if([subView respondsToSelector:@selector(setScrollEnabled:)]){ [(UIScrollView *)subView setScrollEnabled:FALSE]; } } //prevent scrolling in iOS 3.1 > if([[BT_strings getStyleValueForScreen:self.screenData nameOfProperty:@"preventAllScrolling" defaultValue:@""] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ if([[[self.webView subviews] lastObject] respondsToSelector:@selector(setScrollEnabled:)]){ [[[self.webView subviews] lastObject] setScrollEnabled:NO]; } } }//for each sub-view in UIWebView //add the toolbar if we have one (utility may return nil depending on this screens data) if(browserToolBar != nil){ [self.view addSubview:browserToolBar]; //if we don't have a dataURL, disable possible launch in Safari button if([self.dataURL length] < 3){ for(UIBarButtonItem *button in [browserToolBar items]){ //launch in safari app = 103 (see BT_viewUtilties.m > getWebToolBarForScreen) if([button tag] == 103){ button.enabled = FALSE; } } } } //create adView? if([[BT_strings getJsonPropertyValue:self.screenData.jsonVars nameOfProperty:@"includeAds" defaultValue:@"0"] isEqualToString:@"1"]){ [self createAdBannerView]; } UIRefreshControl *refreshControl = [[UIRefreshControl alloc] init]; [refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(refreshView:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged]; refreshControl.attributedTitle = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Refreshing data..."]; [webView.scrollView addSubview:refreshControl]; }