I'm creating my GUI programmatically. It simply consists of a UILabel, a UITableView and two UIButtons.
When creating those three controls I've noticed that they all seem to use different color schemes by default which makes the GUI look rather silly. Here are my observations: 1) By default, UILabel seems to set both background and text color to black, i.e. nothing is readable before you change the colors to some more meaningful values. 2) By default, UITableView appears with a gray background and black text on top. 3) By default, UIButton appears with a black background and blue (!) text on top. Is there any rationale why all three controls seem to use entirely different color schemes by default here? When writing desktop GUIs it's bad practice to use custom color schemes because they might clash with the user's theme settings. Doesn't such a paradigm apply to iOS as well? Or am I really forced to explicitly set foreground and background colors for each UI control? I'd really prefer to use the default iOS look instead. On Android I don't have to set background and foreground colors either, the OS will automatically use some meaningful and consistent (!) default colors. This makes me wonder if there is a default iOS color scheme for apps at all? Or are all apps supposed to define their own color scheme? If there is a default iOS color scheme, why don't the controls use it then when not specifying any colors? It's all quite confusing... I hope somebody can shed some more light onto this. But please no lectures on that I should use Interface Builder, Storyboard, or whatever it is called now instead, I really like to do things manually - always have, always will ;) -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
