Modal view becomes 2x wide?

Question

In my application, I would like a modal view to present itself when the app starts up and there is no wifi. I have code like this in the applicationDidFinishLaunching:

UIViewController *modalViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ModalDisconnect" bundle:nil];
[[self tabBarController] presentModalViewController:modalViewController animated:YES];
[modalViewController release];

The nib here is simply a UIView with a UIImageView nested inside.

Question: On the device, the image comes up and is 2x the width of the screen (I can only see the left half). Why could this happen? On the simulator everything works as planned.

Answer 1

The only thing i can think of here is that you have your UIImageViews Image setting the bounds, So if you are initializing UIImageView w ith [UIImageView initWithImage:], this will cause the ImageView to take the dimensions of the image, and if the image was taken in landscape mode then it will strech the view. As a solution, set your UIImageView r ectangle and then s et the image something like

[[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:frame] 
 [imageView setImage:image]

Answer 2

The problem was caused by using a .png that was generated from a .psd (photoshop) that had a number of layers including text, pictures, and gradients. Some combination of these tricked my ipod into rendering the image in a strange way. I flattened the .png in photoshop and then it worked perfectly.

Thanks for the help.