Making UISearchBar auto resize on showsScopeBar

Published on the 21st of June 2009

Today I found out that changing the showsScopeBar property of the UISearchBar didn't automagically resize the content area.

After looking a bit further in the iPhone SDK api reference I found out that this effect is easily created by calling the sizeToFit method.

Short example:

// show
searchBar.showsScopeBar = YES;
[searchBar sizeToFit];
 
// hide
searchBar.showsScopeBar = NO;
[searchBar sizeToFit];

Hope this saves someone some time :-)