Question

I have a Bar Button Item and I wanna set a background image for it.
Both the button and the background image are set in the xib file.

Here how it looks like:

As you can see the image doesn’t covers the whole width of the button.

Now, I tried setting up as background a larger image and here is how the result looks like:

The button gets larger itself and still the image doesn’t fits its size.
Anyone any idea of how to make this work?

Answer 1

Try this, it works very well in these cases:

   UIImage *btnImg = [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImg.png"];
    UIImage *btnGreyImg = [btnImg stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:12 topCapHeight:0];
    [myBtn setBackgroundImage:btnGreyImg forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Of course, you can write this in one line or two lines, I just wanted to show it clearly…