Adding uiview to a uiviewcontroller

I'd like to add a 50x150 uiview that I will be using as a menu, and I want to overlay it on top of my uiviewcontroller. So far what I've done is declare a UIView IBOutlet in the UIViewController class file, and in that UIViewController xib file, I dragged a UIView from the library and hooked it up accordingly. Problem is its not showing up when trying to call it:

menu =开发者_高级运维 [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,10,50,150)];
//[self.view insertSubview:menu atIndex:0];
[self.view addSubview:menu];
//[self.view bringSubviewToFront:menu];

I've tried different variations as you can see, all suggestions from other posts but I get nothing. Am I going down the wrong path here? What am i missing?

Since you've hooked up the view in Interface Builder, you don't need to alloc a new one. To add it to the view controller's main view, the code should look like this:

[self.view addSubview:self.menu]; // Assuming your IBOutlet is a property called menu.

If you're just using an IBOutlet ivar (not recommended), it should look like this:

[self.view addSubview:menu];