Question

I’m modifying the look of my TableView‘s section header. I’ve managed to get the text working just fine. But the the background image doesn’t seem to be showing up at all.

- (UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section 
{
    UIView *headerView = [[[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 30)] autorelease];
    UILabel *sectionTitle = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 0, 320, 30)] autorelease];
    sectionTitle.text = [[tableDataSource objectAtIndex: section] objectForKey: @"Title"];
    sectionTitle.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:14];
    //sectionTitle.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    sectionTitle.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.4];
    sectionTitle.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(1, 1);
    sectionTitle.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0];
    //headerView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    UIImageView *sectionHeaderBG = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"CellBackgroundGrey4.png"];
    sectionHeaderBG.image = image;

    [headerView addSubview:sectionTitle];    
    [headerView addSubview:sectionHeaderBG];
    [headerView autorelease];
    return headerView;
}

Is there something I’m missing?

Answer 1

Give it a try:

headerView.backgroundColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"CellBackgroundGrey4.png"]];