iPhone UITableView PlainStyle with custom background image - done “entirely” in code

Question

I have been all over the place, seems the UITableView with a static background issue is well documented, but no one with a straight forward solution? Im building my

Answer 1

Ok, now it is running:) My tableView was not populated with my cells, so breakPointing through the thing I found out that even though I had implemented the TableViewDataSource and TableViewDelegate, this was only in the main view, I needed to set the delegate and datasource of the tableview to = self. For others seeking an answer to this here is the method as it ended up with Coneybeares help:

- (void)loadView {
[super loadView];

UIImageView *imageView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds] autorelease];
[imageView setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"carbon_background.png"]];
[self.view addSubview:imageView];

[self.tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds] autorelease];
[self.tableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[self.view addSubview:self.tableView];

self.tableView.delegate = self;
self.tableView.dataSource = self;

}