How to create a full-screen modal status display on iPhone?
cocoa-touch, iphone, iphone-sdk-3.0, objective-c
Solution
Take a look at the source code to the WordPress application. They have code which you can basically drag and drop into your application to do this.
http://iphone.wordpress.org/development/
Problem
I'm trying to create a modal status indicator display for an iPhone app, and would like one similar to this one used in Tweetie: Specifically, this one "shades out" the entire screen, including the toolbar. I don't believe through any normal UIView manipulation, I can extend past the bounds of my window, can I? I believe I've seen a status indicator like this somewhere else on iPhone, possibly when I added an Exchange e-mail account. I've tried subclassing UIAlertView and overriding its drawRect method. If I don't call [super drawRect:] it doesn't ever display the normal UIAlertView text box, however my drawing rectangle is in an odd size and position. Anyone have any advice to accomplish this?