Position not honored when making a toast in a UIWindow about toast

[scalessec]

I'm unable to duplicate. If you go to the sample project and replace self.view with self.view.window everything still works as expected. What is the frame of your window?

In general, it's bad practice to add a view directly to the window because it throws off the whole concept of a view hierarchy. Plus those views won't receive important information that is only sent to subviews of the window's root view controller (like rotation events). If you're using a navigation controller, I'd recommend using self.navigationController.view to present the toast instead.

Send a gist if you're convinced it's a bug in the lib.

[eytanbiala]

Thanks for the reply. So it looks like using self.navigationController.view does present the toast in the correct position and orientation, but it gets hidden under the bottom toolbar if it is called while a view is being popped or presented. Any suggestions in this case?

[scalessec]

No prob. Is the navigation controller your root view controller (eg: is the navigation controller inside a tab bar controller)? Present the toast in root view controller's view. If the root is in fact the navigation controller, you could try this (hacky) solution:

On line 103 in showToast:duration:position: in Toast+UIView.m add this:
toast.layer.zPosition = CGFLOAT_MAX;

That would ensure that the toast is always the top view in that particular view hierarchy.

[eytanbiala]

Thanks, setting the zPosition does fix the issue.

This works as well, basically setting a delay before showing the toast so that it does not happen during a v.c. transition:

    dispatch_time_t delay = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, NSEC_PER_SEC * 0.1);
    dispatch_after(delay, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
        // do work in the UI thread here
        [self.navController.view makeToast:message duration:duration position:(id)position];
    });