I am looking for a way on the iPhone, due to a custom 'loading' subview, to have a subview cover the keyboard without dismissing the keyboard. Right now when the subview loads, the keyboard is still topmost. Any ideas?
add your loading view as subview on window. It will cover keyboard too. Here is a stackoverflow post for the same
UPDATE
My code
#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Waiting View
- (void)showWaitingView {
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(90, 190, 32, 32);
UIActivityIndicatorView* progressInd = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[progressInd startAnimating];
progressInd.activityIndicatorViewStyle = UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhiteLarge;
frame = CGRectMake(130, 193, 140, 30);
UILabel *waitingLable = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
waitingLable.text = @"Processing...";
waitingLable.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
waitingLable.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:20];;
waitingLable.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
frame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
UIView *theView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
theView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
theView.alpha = 0.7;
theView.tag = 999;
[theView addSubview:progressInd];
[theView addSubview:waitingLable];
[progressInd release];
[waitingLable release];
[window addSubview:[theView autorelease]];
[window bringSubviewToFront:theView];
}
- (void)removeWaitingView {
UIView *v = [window viewWithTag:999];
if(v) [v removeFromSuperview];
}