Setting UINavbar Backbutton Color

[William Frowine, PMP]

Hello All:

I have a view where the view is pushed from the master view using a UINavigation controller.

I am wondering how you could change the color of the "Back Button" that takes you back to the parent view.  

I tried the following:

self.navigationController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

    

But it didn't do anything.  Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[Doug Mason]

Well, it is slightly heavy-handed especially if you wanted to have other colors for your UINavigationBar items, but this is another way you can do it.

[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

This will change the background color of every button on the UINavigationBar, as I said, but so far in my testing, I am running into the same problems you are otherwise. With both the properties and the ObjC message methods of changing them aside from changing all of the instances of that class of widget.

Hopefully things are going well for you.

Sincerely,

Doug

[Cody Garvin]

Just a thought, 

Which method(s) are you guys running this code in? viewDidLoad:? Try viewDidAppear just to see if it works, then work backwards. I've found some drawing methods don't like to execute until viewWillAppear: or viewDidAppear:

- Cody

[Justin R. Miller]

On May 20, 2012, at 5:35 PM, William Frowine, PMP wrote:

> self.navigationController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

FWIW, navigationItem belongs to a given view controller, so you don't need the "navigationController" above. Can't test right now, but maybe that helps?

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Justin R. Miller
http://codesorcery.net

[Northwest Mobile Development LLC]

Thanks all. I was able to use the code from Doug in the ViewDidLoad method and it works just fine.

Thanks so much!

[Doug Mason]

Just because it was bothering me a bit, I did some research to check out how to get just the back color.. and I actually found it.

So if you create a new instance of UIBarButtonItem, 

UIBarButtonItem *back = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] init ];

Then set its tint Color:

[back setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

and then assign that button as the NavigationController's back button:

[[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem:back];

It will work as you would anticipate, without having to change the appearance proxy for all UIBarButtonItems within the application in the process. 

[William Frowine, PMP]

Thanks Doug!