title: How do you make a UITableView smaller programmatically?
body: <p>Rather than bloat and convolute this post with what I've tried and failed at, I'll just keep it simple, as I'm sure the answer is probably simpler than I think.</p>
  
  <p>I have a scrolling UITableView on the main view of my application.  All I'm trying to do is move the default position--or "starting point"--of the scrolling UITableView down about 194 points to make room for my navigation bar and a couple other UI elements.  How do I do this?  Here are what I believe to be the pertinent method implementations from my ViewController .h and .m files, respectively:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//     MGViewController.h
  //     UITVPractice
  
  #import &lt;Foundation/Foundation.h&gt;
  
  @interface ItemsViewController : UITableViewController
  
  -(id) init;
  -(id) initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style;
  
  @end
  
  
  
  //     MGViewController.m
  //     UITVPractice
  
  #import "ItemsViewController.h"
  #import "MGItem.h"
  #import "MGItemStore.h"
  
  @implementation ItemsViewController
  
  -(void)viewDidLoad {
      UIImageView *backgroundImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]];
      self.tableView.backgroundView = backgroundImageView;
  
      [super viewDidLoad];
  }
  
  -(id) init {
      self = [super initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
  
      if (self) {
          /* create 5 random MGItems and place in the MGItemStore */
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; 20; i++) {
              [[MGItemStore sharedStore] createItem];
          }
      }
      return self;
  }
  
  -(NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
   numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
  {
      return [[[MGItemStore sharedStore] allItems] count];
  }
  
  -(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
          cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
  
      UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"UITableViewCell"];
  
      /* Create an instance of UITableViewCell */
      if (!cell) {
      cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault
                                                     reuseIdentifier:@"UITableViewCell"];
      }
  
      UIView *backView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
      backView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
      cell.backgroundView = backView;
  
      /* Display custom background image for cell(s) */
      cell.backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"cellBackground.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0.0 topCapHeight:5.0]];
  
      /* Display custom background image for selected cell(s) */
      cell.selectedBackgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"cellBackgroundTouched.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0.0 topCapHeight:5.0]];
  
      /* eliminate the white box that bounds the black text.  */
      [[cell contentView] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
      [[cell backgroundView] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
      [cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
  
      /* Set the text of the cell to the description of the item that is at the nth index of items, where n = row this cell will appear in on the tableView */
      MGItem *p = [[[MGItemStore sharedStore] allItems] objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]];
      [[cell textLabel] setText:[p description]];
      [[cell textLabel] setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
  //    [[cell textLabel] highlightedTextColor: [UIColor purpleColor]];
  
      return cell;
  }
  
  -(id) initWithStyle:(UITableViewStyle)style {
      return [self init];
  }
  
  @end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I apologize if this post comes off as a "do this for me" post, but I've tried about a dozen different things and none of them have worked.  Been stuck on this for about 3 days.  Thanks for any help you can provide.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:  Yes, Ismael, you're correct.  It is a subclass of UITableViewController.  I think I understand what you're saying.  Working on it now.  Thanks to both who answered.</p>