iPhone Modal View Smaller that the screen

Question

I\'m trying to do something that shouldn\'t be that complicated, but I can\'t figure it out. I have a UIViewController displaying a UITableView. I want to present a context menu

Answer 1

wangii

Thats pretty much the solution I found. I load the view with loadNibNamed and then just add it on top with addSubView, like this:

//Show a view on top of current view with a wait indicator. This prevents all user interactions.
-(void) showWaitView{
    NSArray* nibViews =  [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"WaitView" owner:self options:nil];
#ifdef __IPHONE_2_1
    waitView = [ nibViews objectAtIndex: 0];
#else
    waitView = [ nibViews objectAtIndex: 1];
#endif          
    CGFloat x = self.view.center.x - (waitView.frame.size.width / 2);
    CGFloat y = self.view.center.y - (waitView.frame.size.height / 2);
    [waitView setFrame:CGRectMake(x,y,waitView.bounds.size.width,waitView.bounds.size.height)];
    [self.view addSubview:waitView];    
}

Could you elaborate on points 3 and 4?

What I did to give the view the round rect aspect is put it inside a round rect button.

This code will actually allow you to have a small floating view, but if the view is smaller that its parent, the user could interact with the visible part of the parent.

In the end I create my view with the same size, but kept the code just in case.

Gonso