Question

I have a subclass based on UIView and i want to change the tint of the uinavigationbar but various methods I’ve tried haven’t worked. How do i do this?

Answer 1

As long as the view is in a viewController that’s part of the navigation stack you can do:

viewController.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor blackColor];

To access the viewController, you can declare an id as an ivar in your View class:

id myParentViewController;

Declare this id as a property so it can be accessed from outside the View.

When creating the view from the viewController, you could pass a reference to the viewController into the view by doing:

view.myParentViewController = self;

Where self would be the reference to your viewController on the navigation stack.

Now that you’re in the view, you can access the navigation bar by doing this:

if([myParentViewController isKindOfClass:[UIViewController class]])
    {
        UIViewController *theParentViewController = (UIViewController*)myParentViewController;
        theParentViewController.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    }