iPhone checkered transparency background

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iPhone checkered transparency background

Many native and non-native iPhone apps display a checkered background similar to a transparency pattern in areas that it has yet to render. You can see this in Safari when you quickly zoom in and pan to an area that has yet to be rendered. I have seen this in multiple apps, so it seems probable that there is an easy way to do this. Does anyone know how to draw this pattern natively?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 29, 2008 7:27 AM

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msv123

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Sep 29, 2008 4:20 PM in response to cjbarrett

My gut feeling tells me that this is not built-in to the SDK in any way. You could try to take a screenshot of part of it from the device, then use Photoshop or something similar to make a full-screen image of checkered-ness.

Not sure of the context you want to use it, but then you could just create a UIImageView with the checkered image and place it in your main view in back of everything.

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