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Jonathan Thurft
Jonathan Thurft

Reputation: 4173

Making an element an element display on top of the UIView border

I am trying to place a UIButton inbetween my popup view and the parent view.

I cant successfully do that by doing that [self.view addSubview:new];. My problem there is the border UIView can be seen across the UIButton .

I've tried [self.view.superview addSubview:new]; thinking that that would make it go away but it doesnt it still shows there.

I need to find a way to successfully place that button on top of everything (UIView border in this case).

I know I could do that if I insert the button from the parentView, but I want to handle all my subViews buttons within each subView, otherwise it everything will become messy very quickly.

Is there a way to do what I am trying to achieve?

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Austin
Austin

Reputation: 195

According to Apple's CALayer documentation, borders always appear above subviews because they're drawn on another layer. The best solution is to create a background view to fake the border.

So instead, your popup view would have an orange background. It'd have another, slightly smaller subview directly over it with a white background, and then your button.

diagram

See this post for the implementation.

Upvotes: 3

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