Container/Child UIViewControllers and status bar - ios

Question

I'm trying to get a parent view controller to display a child view controller's view. I've got the following in the parent's viewDidLoad :
-(void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// create child view controller
[self setMenuController:[[MenuViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MenuView" bundle:nil]];
[self addChildViewController:[self menuController]];
// move the child view down 30 pt
CGRect frame = [[[self menuController] view] frame];
frame.origin.y = 30;
[[[self menuController] view] setFrame:frame];
[[self menuController] setWantsFullScreenLayout:YES];
[[self view] addSubview:[[self menuController] view]];
[[[self menuController] view] setNeedsLayout];
}
The child view controller's xib is simply a red view with a centered, partially transparent UIImageView (to see overlap).
If I disable the status bar in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:, I get the following:
If I enable the status bar, I get:
With a status bar, the child controller's UIView is automatically adjusted to make room for where the status bar would be (since the image view is centered, that's 10 pts on top and bottom). Since this is a child view, it should always use the full size of the view controller's view regardless of whether the parent will have a status bar. Is there any way to achieve this besides resizing any child views to be 20 pixels bigger, or using a wrapper view in the child view controller?

Answer 1

Try setting frame to menuController's view's bounds instead of its frame. Also, I'm not sure that you want setWantsFullScreen which should cause the view to underlap the status bar.
After Edit:
Try it like this, and see if this works.
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[self setMenuController:[[MenuViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MenuView" bundle:nil]];
[self addChildViewController:menuController];
[menuController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
menuController.view.frame = CGRectMake(self.view.bounds.origin.x, self.view.bounds.origin.y +30, menuController.view.frame.size.width, menuController.view.frame.size.height);
[self.view addSubview:menuController.view];
}