Simple way to change the position of UIView?

I had the same problem. I made a simple UIView category that fixes that.

.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>


@interface UIView (GCLibrary)

@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat height;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat width;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat x;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat y;

@end

.m

#import "UIView+GCLibrary.h"


@implementation UIView (GCLibrary)

- (CGFloat) height {
    return self.frame.size.height;
}

- (CGFloat) width {
    return self.frame.size.width;
}

- (CGFloat) x {
    return self.frame.origin.x;
}

- (CGFloat) y {
    return self.frame.origin.y;
}

- (CGFloat) centerY {
    return self.center.y;
}

- (CGFloat) centerX {
    return self.center.x;
}

- (void) setHeight:(CGFloat) newHeight {
    CGRect frame = self.frame;
    frame.size.height = newHeight;
    self.frame = frame;
}

- (void) setWidth:(CGFloat) newWidth {
    CGRect frame = self.frame;
    frame.size.width = newWidth;
    self.frame = frame;
}

- (void) setX:(CGFloat) newX {
    CGRect frame = self.frame;
    frame.origin.x = newX;
    self.frame = frame;
}

- (void) setY:(CGFloat) newY {
    CGRect frame = self.frame;
    frame.origin.y = newY;
    self.frame = frame;
}

@end

UIView's also have a center property. If you just want to move the position rather than resize, you can just change that - eg:

aView.center = CGPointMake(50, 200);

Otherwise you would do it the way you posted.

aView.center = CGPointMake(150, 150); // set center

or

aView.frame = CGRectMake( 100, 200, aView.frame.size.width, aView.frame.size.height ); // set new position exactly

or

aView.frame = CGRectOffset( aView.frame, 10, 10 ); // offset by an amount

Edit:

I didn't compile this yet, but it should work:

#define CGRectSetPos( r, x, y ) CGRectMake( x, y, r.size.width, r.size.height )

aView.frame = CGRectSetPos( aView.frame, 100, 200 );