iPhone: finding the currently "highest" view

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iPhone: finding the currently "highest" view

Hi!

I'm coding a MobileSubstrate plugin (a code insertion platform on jailbroken devices) which will hook into safari and a few other apps.

This plugin will have to display an UIActionSheet. But in order to do that I need to find a view to display it in. so far I'm using showInView:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow] but it's not the perfect solution.

Is there any way to find the highest view? highest so UIActionSheet doesn't get covered by a view.

Thanks in advance.

keyWindow is the highest view. You could look through subviews of keyWindow, but in my experience they are unlikely to work well - the tab bar controller is a good example where no direct subview is really great to add a subview to.

What issues are you seeing with using the keywindow? The primary annoyance would be, that keywindow stuff is not rotated properly in landscape mode...

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner 2009-10-14 21:42:39

well, for example in Tweetie2, when tweetie want's to authorize a new account there is a popup, grey box with ActivityIndicator inside, my action sheet is behind that and can't be "touched". since I'm using delegate methods I tried using a loop in the method which creates the ActionSheet and inserted in it [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow] bringSubviewToFront:actionSheet];but it didn't work. the popup stays in front of my ActionSheet :/I hope you get what I mean (my poor english :D)

Yllier 2009-10-14 23:48:35

Tricky, perhaps you could also override addSubview on UIWindow and anything that is not your window, gets set as a subwindow of your window?

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner 2009-10-15 07:38:03

or maybe a way to get all the views and then put mine on top of it?

Yllier 2009-10-16 21:32:07

At the top you would fine the same UIView that is keyWindow.

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner 2009-10-17 04:16:17

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