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copied!<p>My goal is to draw an invisible button above the status bar on the top of my iPhone app (dimension 320*20 pixels).</p> <p>No matter what I try, something is buggy:</p> <ol> <li><p>For example, I tried to create a new view. When I want to place the view on the top of my app, it always disappears behind the status bar instead of being in front of it!</p></li> <li><p>I found another great idea on Stackoverflow: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2666792/add-uiview-above-all-other-views-including-statusbar">Add UIView Above All Other Views, Including StatusBar</a> Even if a second UIWindow isn't recommended, I tried to implement it. It worked as I wanted until the moment that I noticed a problem: the keyboard doesn't appear anymore when needed (for example when clicking in a textbox)! </p></li> </ol> <p>How can I possibly fix this? Or is there a better approach to my problem? This is my code for creating the second window:</p> <pre><code>// Create window statusWindow = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,20)]; statusWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelStatusBar; [statusWindow makeKeyAndVisible]; // Create statusBarButton statusBarButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; CGRect buttonFrame2 = statusBarButton.frame; buttonFrame2.size = CGSizeMake(320,20); statusBarButton.frame = buttonFrame2; [statusBarButton addTarget:self action:@selector(goTop) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; // Place button into the new window [statusWindow addSubview:statusBarButton]; </code></pre>

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