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Achilleterzo
Achilleterzo

Reputation: 742

setBackgroundResource() iphone monotouch equivalent

Is there an equivalent of R.drawable. on monotouch? I'm also searching for a way to set an xml graphic resource definition as background of a UIView or subclasses.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 133

Answers (1)

jonathanpeppers
jonathanpeppers

Reputation: 26495

You are in a different world here. iOS does not have an equivalent of what you're using on Android.

General practice is to use a static class in MonoTouch:

public static class Resources
{
   public static readonly UIImage Background = UIImage.FromFile("Background.png");
}

And use this anywhere you need it from C# code. If you set an image in a XIB file, it will use UIImage.FromBundle(), which caches the image across views. UIImage.FromFile() is generally better when using it from a static class, however.

See more on UIImage loading and MonoTouch here: http://docs.xamarin.com/ios/tutorials/Working_with_Images?highlight=images (near bottom)

Upvotes: 1

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