UIView background Color
iphone, uiview
Solution
Try:
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
I don't see any reason not to have that in your init method. I don't think you want to override drawRect: in this case as you'll need to draw the entire view yourself.
Problem
I am trying to create a grid view by using a UITableView (my older questions have pointed me in this direction) and am currently setting up the views for the individual items. Having created a custom UITableViewCell that displays 3 items per row, I have decided to pull these items into a subclass of UIView called ItemView. This ItemView will then be added as a subview to the custom UITableViewCell to display the grid. Anyway, I have managed to create the view and can get it to display a UILabel fine, however I am having trouble in changing ItemView to be transparent apart from the UIViews (Labels, buttons, images etc) within it. Here is my code for the UIView: ``` #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface ItemView : UIView { } @end #import "ItemView.h" @implementation ItemView - (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame { if ((self = [super initWithFrame:frame])) { } return self; } - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]]; } - (void)dealloc { [super dealloc]; } @end ``` Where should I set the background color for it to work properly? Cheers