Disable UIView and controls

Question

When a user clicks on a button a popup similar to this image appears. But when i am on a slow internet, the popup takes awhile to load. so until the popup loads i need the view in the background (where the button resides) to freeze (disable) and the user should not be able to click on any controls.

How can i disable the view/control ?

Answer 1

See -[UIView userInteractionEnabled]

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uiview_class/uiview/uiview.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIView/userInteractionEnabled

Set

view.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

On the parent view of the controls you'd like disabled.

Answer 2

Set the button's enabled property to NO - if you're using UIButton or a subclass thereof.

ex.

[button setEnabled:NO];