resize UISearchDisplayController dimmed black overlay - iphone

Question

anybody know how to resize the dimmed black overly, once you clicked the search bar ?
i having problem when i clicked cancelled the tableview will expend then animated to disappear.
i using this to resize my result tableview.
-(void)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller didShowSearchResultsTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
tableView.frame =fTableView.frame;//CGRectMake(26, 100, 280, 310); //fTableView.frame;
tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:243.0/255.0 green:236.0/255.0 blue:212.0/255.0 alpha:1];
}
when clicked on the search bar, gray overlay are full instead of my defined size.
when clicked cancel button, the view will expend back.

Answer 1

I combined several answers in order to move the dimmed overlay frame.
1: override UISearchDisplayController class
#interface MySearchController : UISearchDisplayController
2: override setActive function
- (void)setActive:(BOOL)visible animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[super setActive: visible animated: animated];
//move the dimming part down
for (UIView *subview in self.searchContentsController.view.subviews) {
//NSLog(#"%#", NSStringFromClass([subview class]));
if ([subview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UISearchDisplayControllerContainerView")])
{
CGRect frame = subview.frame;
frame.origin.y += 10;
subview.frame = frame;
}
}
}
3: change the xib/storyboard Search Display Controller from UISearchDisplayController to
MySearchController

Answer 2

I thought the searchDisplayController owned a seperate tableview, so my guess is that you would need to resize that one.
Something along the lines of: <yourSearchViewController>.view.frame =self.tableView.frame;
or if you don't have it as class variable, in a method which receives it as argument, eg:
-(void)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller didShowSearchResultsTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
controller.view.frame = self.tableView.frame;
tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:243.0/255.0 green:236.0/255.0 blue:212.0/255.0 alpha:1];
}
Alternativily you might want to subclass it and override its view properties locally.
Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The UISearchDisplayController does owns its own tableview which not as easy to tame.
I came across something like this and am still looking for a better solution.
-(void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
[controller.searchResultsTableView setDelegate:self];
CGFloat gr = 12.0;
controller.searchResultsTableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:gr green:gr blue:gr alpha:0.0];
[controller.searchResultsTableView setSeparatorStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
CGRect searchTableFrame = CGRectMake(7, 105, 305, 292);
[controller.searchResultsTableView setFrame:searchTableFrame];
}
The above code does sets the background to transparent but seems to silently ignore the frame size.
EDIT:SOLVED
I found the robust solution to this here.
This saved my life.