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 <rm...@latencyzero.com> 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 <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> 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 <rm...@latencyzero.com> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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/newslists%40autonomy.caltech.edu >>> >>> This email sent to newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu >> > > > -- > Rick > > > _______________________________________________ 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