Question

I have a UIViewController containing its UIView which occupies the available screen (inbetween the tabbar and nav bar).

I’d now like to add a simple toolbar which is situated at the top of the UIView which will contain some buttons. One of the buttons should display a drop down menu which is displayed as an overlay over the UIView. I’d quite like this menu to be a UITable as it could contain many items.

The problem I’m having is I can’t see the best way to go about this. I’m wondering whether there’s a simple strategy.

Here’s an example of the type of feature I’m looking for…

Menu hidden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterevers/3147678219/in/photostream/
Menu displayed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterevers/3148550320/

I expect the above example is emulated in UIWebView using HTML/CSS. Is there a “proper” way?

TIA

Answer 1

I create a UIView, actually I create a new Status Bar, custom Color, graphics, and a clock on it, the menu UIButton has this function called, but make sure also in your H to add the button and the UIView and attach it to the newly created UIView in IB…. IBOutlet UIView *nameofMenuUIView;

[self addSubview:nameofMenuUIView];

or you could do

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
[UIView setAnimationTransistion:READBELOW forView:self cache:YES];
[self addSubview:nameofMenuUIView];
[UIView commitAnimations];

READ BELOW: this READBELOW text above can be changed to 103 104 110 or even page curl up/down etc…. look for Animating UIView’s their is about 6 animations you can use, however 3 of them are dedicated to the camera roll, so pointless for a menu…