Are you on iOS 7? You're describing an iOS 6 behavior. Doing the following on
iOS 7 (in -viewDidLoad):
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];
has no effect other than changing the text within the bar items. Under iOS 6 it
changed the tint of the entire navigation bar.
-Carl
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before, I had the nav bar as a separate entity in my view hierarchy. Then, I
> was able to select it and set the tint color to the color I wanted in IB.
>
> I changed things to a formal UINavigationController stack to make it easier
> for my contained class to modify the items in the nav bar, and now there
> seems to be no way to change the color.
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 18:34 , Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, for setting the UINavigationBar color you can specify any color as
>> long as it's white. The -tintColor method appears to specify the color of
>> the text within the navbar button items only.
>> -Carl
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having a heck of a time setting the tint color for a navigation bar. I
>>> can't set it in IB (my controller is contained in a UINavigationController,
>>> which is embedded in another custom controller). I can't set the tint bar
>>> directly when the root navigation controller is embedded in its container,
>>> and I can't set it via the contained controller in its viewDidLoad.
>>>
>>> I've also tried setting the tintColor on the window at startup, and I've
>>> tried setting the UINavigationBar appearance's tint color. None seems to
>>> have an effect.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
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> Rick
>
>
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