Question

Is there a way to change the “layer” that UIImageView objects are drawn in? Whenever I add an image view to a view controller it defaults to drawing the most recently added one on top of all the others. So if I decide to add a “background” image it is now a “foreground” image and blocks everything else.

There isn’t anything in the IB options or in the UIImageView class reference and I haven’t been able to find anything here on SO. It’s been a problem for a while and it’s weird that I haven’t seen anything about it before… I think it might just be my semantics coming from a delphi background.

Anyway, does anyone know about this issue / ICANHAZTEHCODEZ to fix it? Or is this just like the UIScrollView problem and poorly supported by the development environment.

This happens when I try to use the editor to arrange the subviews.

Answer 1

You can bring a SubView to Front or Send it background programmatically using

[self.view bringSubviewToFront:yourImageView];

and

[self.view sendSubviewToBack:yourImageView];

when self.view must be the superview of your imageView

In IB, select a UIControl and from top menu bar select Editor->arrage->send to front or back