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Nitish
Nitish

Reputation: 14113

Change navigation bar button text color

I am creating a custom view to generate navigation bar items. 

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        // Custom initialization
        UIView *backButtonView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,70,35)];
        UIButton *myBackButton = [[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect] retain];
        [myBackButton setFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,70,35)];
        myBackButton.titleLabel.text = @"Back";
        myBackButton.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
        myBackButton.titleLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
        myBackButton.titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        [myBackButton setEnabled:YES];
        [myBackButton addTarget:self.navigationController action:@selector(moveBack:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
        [backButtonView addSubview:myBackButton];
        [myBackButton release];
        UIBarButtonItem* backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backButtonView];
        self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButton;
        [backButtonView release];
        [backButton release];


        CGRect frame = CGRectMake(300, 0, 400, 35);
        UILabel *label = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:frame] autorelease];
        label.backgroundColor = [UIColor yellowColor];
        label.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.0];
        label.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.0 alpha:0.5];
        label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;
        label.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        label.text = @"Order booking";
        self.navigationItem.titleView = label;
    }
    return self;
}

With this I am having the following output :

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I want the bar button to have same background color as navigation bar and its text in black color. I have tried doing it the either way by using UINavigationController delegate, but didn't get success. What changes do I need to make?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5325

Answers (2)

LenArt
LenArt

Reputation: 111

Here how to change the text label color (e.g. to black) of a UIBarButtonItem (the text label is white colored by default):

[self.myBarButton setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor blackColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Especially when you choose a light colored tint (background color) of the button: 

self.myBarButton.tintColor = [UIColor yellowColor];

And not to forget, you may also want to change the text label shadow color: (the code should be placed before changing the text label color itself, in order not to have the shadow redrawn on top of the text label color!)

[self.fullVersionViewButton setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor grayColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextShadowColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Upvotes: 4

W Dyson
W Dyson

Reputation: 4634

Read the 5.0 documentation. There was a WWDC '11 session on this very thing about a new, and much easier way, to do this. (Session 114 - Customizing the Appearance of UIKit Controls).

Upvotes: 1

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