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TheLearner
TheLearner

Reputation: 19507

UITabBarItem images just appear as a grey block

I have created .png icons 20 x 20 and when I set the image property in the nib they just appear grey blocks.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: Here is one of the icons!

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 3539

Answers (4)

Matthias Bauch
Matthias Bauch

Reputation: 90117

The standard tabbar icons in iOS are rendered solely from the alpha channel. Colors are ignored completely. Instead of colors you can use different alpha values that lead to a different shade of gray (or blue if selected)

Make the background of your icons transparent.

Upvotes: 7

bryanmac
bryanmac

Reputation: 39306

Try saving the file as png interlaced. In photoshop at least it gives you an option of interlaced or normal.

Upvotes: 0

Elmo
Elmo

Reputation: 407

This happened to me in iOS 5, I got around it by setting UIImage Outlet property in the Xib to 'Custom' and then set the label programmtically so : imageOne = [UIImage imageNames@"Dog.png"];

Upvotes: 0

Saurabh
Saurabh

Reputation: 22883

Download these attached images and pass them to your designer and ask him to just create images like these (when you open them in PS you'll know the difference)

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Upvotes: 3

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