ios - Subclassing an UIView inside another UIView?

Question

I have 2 UIViews both with a bit off code in them.

I can subclass one to a UIViewController like this self.view addSubView:_msgView]; _msgView being a UIView.

Now _msgView is a Plain UIView that has a 0.7 Alpha to lay over the UIViewController.

now I have another UIView called menuButtons and I want to put that on top of the _msgView.

I was thinking I could use [_msgView addSubView:_menuButton]; but that does not work and gives a warning

Incompatible pointer types sending 'MenuButtons *__strong' to parameter of type 'UIView *'

How do I put a UIView on top of another UIView?

//EDITS:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "SlideMessageView.h"
#import "definitions.h"


@interface MenuButtons : UIView
{
UIButton *onBack;
UIButton *onForward;
UIButton *onRefresh;
UIButton *onHome;
UIButton *onSafari;
UIButton *onChrome;
UIButton *onPocketReader;
UIButton *onSavePDF;
UIButton *onPrint;
UIButton *onShare;

SlideMessageView *msgView;

BOOL viewVisible;
}

The UIButtons have their @properties set below that.

Answer 1

you do 1 thing.. if u are generating both the views through code then add both views in self.view itself and set their frames separately.

ie if 1st view is at top set the frame msgview.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,100); ans for second view someview.frame = CGRectMake(0,100,320,200);