Question

After retrieving search results from a UISearchBar, the results appear in my tableview correctly, but the view is ‘greyed out’ (see image below)..Any help on this is appreciated, I can’t find a solution the Apple documentation.

This is my code that is fired upon hitting the Search button:

- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {
isSearchOn = YES;
canSelectRow = YES;
self.tableView.scrollEnabled = YES;

CityLookup *cityLookup = [[CityLookup alloc] findCity:searchBar.text];

if ([cityLookup.citiesList count] > 0) {
    tableCities = cityLookup.citiesList;
}

[cityLookup release];

isSearchOn = NO;

self.searchBar.text=@"";

[self.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO animated:YES];
[self.searchBar resignFirstResponder];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];

    [self.tableView reloadData];

}

And this is how the table view is being refreshed:

-(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
    cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

static NSString *kCellID = @"cellID";

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:kCellID];
if (cell == nil)
{
    cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:kCellID] autorelease];
    cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryDisclosureIndicator;
}

NSString *cellValue = [tableCities objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];



cell.textLabel.text = cellValue;
    return cell;
}

Answer 1

If you are using the full package with a UISearchDisplayController the following line should remove the search interface:

[self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES];

If you are not using UISearchDisplayController I would recommend checking it out and see if it doesn’t suit your needs.

Remark: There is nothing in your posted code that would remove whatever view you have used to grey out the table view. So if you are not using UISearchDisplayController look in the code that displays the search interface to see what you need to do to remove it.