I have read time and again that if you make a UIView transparent, it affects all its subviews, including buttons, etc. I want the background of my UIView to be semi-transparent (alpha=.5 perhaps) and to be made of a specific image pattern that repeats itself, but I want the buttons in that view to be completely opaque. I could separate the buttons into separate views, but that doesn't seem efficient. What is the best approach here? Regarding a mesh background, if I make a pattern I like, is this all that is required:
self.view.backgroundColor= [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"yourimage.jpg"]];
