A NON full screen iphone application

Question

I would like to create an application that presents an UIAlertView to the user (similar to how the arriving SMS or calendar notifications look like). So the rest of the icons are shown and only the middle portion of the screen is covered (if you ever got an SMS or a calender event - you will not what I mean)
Does anyone know if this is possible? What even I try to do, the screen is always covered by the application window, even if I resize the window - it still keeps a black background

Answer 1

static UIAlertView *alert;
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application
{/* Create the alert */
alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"MyApp"
message:@"Here is a friendly message from my application."
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show]; // Ask for it to be displayed.
[alert release];
return; // On return, the alert will be displayed until the user presses OK.
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView didDismissWithButtonIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{if (alertView==alert)
{/* The user has pressed a button within the alert, so terminate
the program.
exit(0);