Question

I am adding a view that fades in that gives my user alerts like successful login etc. Unfortunately the view does not appear above the keyboard so half of it gets hidden because I am displaying it in the center.

case 401:
                alertBezel = [[MBProgressHUD alloc] initWithView:self.view];
                [self.view addSubview:alertBezel];

                // Make the customViews 37 by 37 pixels for best results (those are the bounds of the build-in progress indicators)
                alertBezel.customView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"37x-Checkmark.png"]] autorelease];
                alertBezel.mode = MBProgressHUDModeCustomView;
                alertBezel.labelText = @"Unauthorized User!";
                [alertBezel show:YES];
                [alertBezel hide:YES afterDelay:1];
                break;

I also tried getting the key window:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]

No luck.

Answer 1

It sounds like you should really be using a UIAlertView. That will show up over the keyboard.

Below are some resources on customizing alert views:

how i can implement a custom UIAlertview with a progress bar and a cancel button?

http://www.skylarcantu.com/blog/2009/08/14/custom-uialertview-color-chooser/