> On 2016 Dec 15, at 0:47, Andreas Falkenhahn <andr...@falkenhahn.com> wrote: > > 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
Nobody can guess what you are actually doing. Please share some code so people can help you. _______________________________________________ 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
