Question

I am using a UISearchBar and once the user taps the bar (and the keyboard pops up) I want the everything besides the keyboard and UISearchBar to be greyed out. Similar to safari when the search is selected. I do not need past searches. See here:

Anyone have any ideas? I’ve looked through the questions here on StackOverflow and I can’t find anything specific.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can create a UIView that contains the UISearchBar. And then you can set UIView‘s backgroundColor to get the gray background.

And here’s some sample code:

UIView *view1 = [[UIView alloc] init];
view1.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, 320, 460);
view1.backgroundColor = [UIColor grayColor];

UISearchBar *searchBar = [[UISearchBar alloc] init];
searchBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 50);
[view1 addSubview:searchBar];
[searchBar release];

[self.window addSubview:view1];
[view1 release];