Resized XIB still full size

Question

Building an iPad app. I have a button on my main view that I want to launch a help window. The help window is fairly involved and has its own xib/controller. I resized the help window's XIB and saved it. I instantiated it and added it to the application controller's views as a modal. For some reason this window is still taking up the entire screen.

What I really want to do is have a "view" that's maybe 70% of the width and height that lays over the normal view as a modal. How is this accomplished normally? I want it to require that they hit a button to close it.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could also try placing your UIView into another UIView that actually takes up the entire screen, but has a backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor].

Modal view controllers are really intended to take up the entire screen, as Apple's description states "Modal view controllers are a tool that you have at your disposal for displaying a new screen’s worth of content" (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/ModalViewControllers/ModalViewControllers.html).