UISearchBar disable table view on activation

Question

Hi there.

I have a UISearchBar in the table cell. All done in code (not in IB). When the search bar is activated I want to disable the table view are between the search bar and keyboard, so there is no way to touch and navigate out of this view. Cannot really get it working. Help please.

Answer 1

You could place a transparent UIView on top of the UITableView when the search bar is active. This would effectively disable touch events, which would now be sent to the transparent UIView and would be ignored.

As a general UI technique, if you wanted to inform the end user that the table view is no longer touchable, you could set the alpha of the UIView to 50% or the like. This would "grey out" the table view underneath.