On Dec 14, 2016, at 09:38 , Andreas Falkenhahn <andr...@falkenhahn.com> wrote: > > But, as I wrote in > my last mail, this default look is pretty confusing and irritating because > background and foreground color aren't consistent at all.
You’re assuming that the “default” colors of the various controls (the colors you get if you don’t configure colors) are supposed to be the “standard” colors. What you’ve discovered is that this isn’t true. When you create controls programmatically, you take on the responsibility of deciding how your app should look. If you decide it should look like other apps, then it’s also your responsibility to implement that. If you implement that, it’s also your responsibility to change your app when the look of the rest of the apps changes with the iOS version. Looking at these controls as configured by IB, I see that the "IB default" is typically a clear background. — I’m not sure why your UILabel defaults to the same color as the foreground, but I don’t see why you should be concerned about programmatically setting its background color to clear. The IB default foreground color is black. — The IB default background for a UIView is gray, and the IB default background for a UITableView is clear. Cell views in IB have a white background. That means that section headers and footers let the gray background show through, and details rows have white backgrounds. — The IB default color for button text is the tint color, which happens to be blue. According to that information, you should set the UILabel background to clear or white, and set your cell view backgrounds to white, and leave everything else alone. Also, take a look at view appearances. You might be able to use that API to ensure a consist look for all your controls without configuring every property manually for each UIControl instance. I’d emphasize that if you set colors manually, you can’t necessarily expect that iOS will adjust your colors for new system designs in the future, whereas it may do this for apps that use IB-configured controls. That’s something you might lose by opting out of IB. _______________________________________________ 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
