iOS make uiview transparent without having the uiview's buttons transparent

[johnmerlino]

Hey all,

Im using storyboard on xcode 4. I created a uiview and put 4 buttons on it. Now I want the uiview to be transparent but the buttons remain visible. Problem is when I set alpha of uiview to 0, the buttons become invisible as well.

thanks for response

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

So what should be visible behind/around the UIButtons? Why not just make your UIButtons subviews of whatever is around them?

 

[johnmerlino]

So what should be visible behind/around the UIButtons? Why not just make your UIButtons subviews of whatever is around them?

because I want to make the buttons reusuable since i have four uiviews that can display depending on a type selected. They all have unique buttons but certain buttons will be reused. Hence, I want a transparent ui view with visible buttons.

Is this possible?

 

[dejo]

Don't set the alpha to 0. Set the background color to clearColor.

 

[jnoxx]

You can just go in Interface Builder, and set the opacity of the background color to 0, so then it's gone. Or like Dejo said, set the background color to [UIColor clearColor];

 

[dejo]

You can just go in Interface Builder, and set the opacity of the background color to 0, so then it's gone. Or like Dejo said, set the background color to [UIColor clearColor];

You can set the background to clearColor using Interface Builder, as well, using the color picker drop-down (as seen in the following screenshots):

 

[johnmerlino]

thanks for responses but now I have a new problem. The buttons behind the transparent uiview seem to be not clickable, as if the transparent uiview is blocking it from being clicked.

 

[jnoxx]

Thanks Dejo for the screenshot I was too lazy to do it. Basically, setting the opacity is the same thing, so i thought it was easier to explain.

Next for your question, not 100% sure what the issue is. Do you have something else in that view, something laying over it, accidently pressed the "enable user interaction"?

Gz