Creating UIView in UITableViewController that doesn't moves with the table view - ios

Question

I would like to display a small UIView with some text in the center of a UITableViewController when I call the showHud method.
- (void) showHud {
UIView *paintView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(150, 150, 120, 30)];
[paintView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor yellowColor]];
[self.view addSubview:paintView];
}
Actually the problem with this code is that the view doesn't stays on its place, when I scroll the tableview it goes up with cells. Is it possible to pin it somehow?

Answer 1

I don't think you can achieve that with a UITableViewController because the view property of such controller is a UITableView, so the content will always scroll with it.
You need to create a regular UIViewController and add a UITableView to that controller's main view. Then anything else you add to that main view, will stay in place as it is outside of the table view.

Answer 2

Try implementing scrollViewDidScroll delegate method and change the frame of paintView according to tableview offset.
eg:
- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView {
CGPoint offset = scrollView.contentOffset
[paintView setFrame:CGRectMake(150, 150+offset.y, 120, 30)];
}
But the best way would be to create a simple UIViewController.
You must use UItableViewController because of pullToRefresh controller?

Answer 3

UI could add a view to the window and position it to the very front:
UIView testView = [[UIIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, [[UIScreen mainScreen]applicationFrame].size.height - 85 , 75, 75)]; [[[[[NSApplication sharedApplication] mainWindow] contentView] addSubview:testbox]; addSubview: testView]; testView.layer.zPosition = MAXFLOAT;

Answer 4

An UITableViewController is typically embedded in a "parent" view controller, like UINavigationController. Its UITableView will then have a superview, like UINavigationControllerWrapperView. Even if your table view controller is a root view controller, the table view's superview is UIWindow.
So you can safely assume that your table view always has a superview. Then add your UIView to this superview instead of the table itself:
//Note: frame should be different here as it's in the superview's coordinate system
UIView *paintView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(150, 150, 120, 30)];
[paintView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor yellowColor]];
[self.view.superview addSubview:paintView];