Question

I have a Controller that has a navigation controller and search display controller.

I need to place a Image over the navigation controller view and the search display controller ie:

+-------------------------------+
|I|    Title                    |
|I|-----------------------------+
|I| [Search                    ]|
+-------------------------------+

I need to place the image in the “I” section. What I am doing is in the viewWillAppear add the view to the navigationController:

[self.navigationController.view addSubview:myImage];

That is running fine. But the trouble I is when the user start tipping something in the search bar and cancels the search.

In this method I am trying to put the view again over the navigation controller: – (void)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller didHideSearchResultsTableView:(UITableView *)tableView in this way:

 [self.navigationController.view addSubview:myImage];

But the navigation bar is hiding my image. Is there any way that I can’t prevent the navigation bar hiding my subview?

Answer 1

Assuming your UINavigationcontrolelr is in your main UIWindow, this would add the image to the main window on top of everything else

[self.navigationController.view.superview addSubview:myImage];