How to use presentModalViewController to create a transparent view

Question

I am displaying a modal view with

[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES]; 

When the view moves up the screen it is transparent as per the setting in the xib file it is created from, but once it fills the screen it goes opaque.

Is there anyway of keeping the view transparent?

I suspect that the view it is being placed over is not being rendered rather then that the modal view is becoming opaque.

Answer 1

After iOS 3.2 there is a method to do this without any “tricks” – see the documentation for the modalPresentationStyle property. You have a rootViewController which will present the viewController. So here's the code to success:

viewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; rootViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext; [rootViewController presentModalViewController:viewController animated:YES]; 

With this method the viewController's background will be transparent and the underlying rootViewController will be visible. Please note that this only seems to work on the iPad, see comments below.