Jason, you're awesome. That was it. It turns out that for UIBarButtonItems, "The alpha values in the source image are used to create the images—opaque values are ignored." That's fine with me, I don't actually need or want these icons to be full color, so I should be able to make this work.
If you did want to put a color button on the toolbar, it apparently can be done: "you could create a UIBarButtonItem using initWithCustomView:, with the UIButton as the custom view. This way, you don't have to try and manually position the button around the existing toolbar items. You'll still need to make your button image mimic the look and feel of the toolbar buttons, though, which is annoying. "One other point about this approach: if you do this, be sure to set the frame of the UIButton to the size of the image. Otherwise, you can run into the weird issue of being able to see the button, but not being able to tap on it, because the bounds of the button is actually initialized to (0, 0, 0, 0)." (The above quoted material is from the link you provided.) I have not tried this approach yet, because like I said, I don't think I'll need it, but I'm going to give it a shot at some point just because I like seeing if I can make this sort of thing work. --Chris jawbrey wrote > > this > thread<http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/33286-color-image-uibarbuttonitem-uitoolbar.html> > (old, > but possibly still relevant) suggests using a regular UIButton instead of > a > toolbar button if you want to use an image > -- View this message in context: http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/UIToolBar-Button-Question-tp4655537p4655558.html Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
