title: Set background texture for my iphone app UIView
body: <p>I am newbi to iphone apps as well as to this forum.</p>
  
  <p>I want to place a background texture for my UIView that should cover the whole iPhone screen. I have controls placed on this view currently. Later on, I would like all my controls to be transparent, so user must be able to work with controls, but not see anything except its text.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what I tried:</p>
  
  <p>Created a UIView derived view - with simple background color, no image
  Placed my controls - UIButtons, labels
  Programmed all of them correctly to reflect my game logic</p>
  
  <p>Now I have a change of my mind. I think its lot better to have a background texture for my view, as well as controls.</p>
  
  <p>1) I tried things mentioned at: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8695143/adding-a-background-image-in-interface-builder">Adding A Background Image In Interface Builder</a>
  but this covers my UI controls.</p>
  
  <p>2) Through Interface builder, I tried drag-dropping the texture image onto my view (which in turn, probably, created a UIImageview with background image = my texture). But that again hid every of my past work.
  Then I started playing with alpha value (0.1, 0.8 etc) - it gives me some result, but I am no longer able to design my controls. Nor I am able to click (=touch) them at runtime anymore.</p>
  
  <p>Please give me a method that will not disrupt my work so far (I hate redoing all the outlet wiring of my controls), but still allow me to achieve my goal.</p>
  
  <p>Forgive me if I asked too silly thing, or did not search enough. This is my first question, and will be glad to try any helpful solution!</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks!</p>