Question

Please see the attached image. I’m trying to change the color on the segmented control title, and I cannot find the appropriate attribute. If this is in the Apple docs, I’d be happy to be shown where…

Can anyone please enlighten me..

Thanks

Answer 1

iOS 5.0 introduced some appearance customization options for UISegmentedControl. I think the method you’d be most interested in is:

- (void)setTitleTextAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes forState:(UIControlState)state

Discussion
The attributes dictionary can specify the font, text color, text shadow color, and text shadow offset for the title in the text attributes dictionary, using the keys in NSString UIKit Additions Reference.

Update

If you’re creating your UISegmentedControl programmatically, you can just go ahead and call this method right after you create it. If you’re loading from a nib, you’ll have to set it as an outlet and call this method in your awakeFromNib or viewDidLoad method.

Now, your "Please tap the appropriate button" text is in the navigation prompt? I’m not sure if you can modify the look of that. Perhaps you could do some trickery…

• Set self.navigationItem.prompt = @" "; so it’s technically set but doesn’t have anything to display.
• Make a UIView, add your UISegmentedControl to that, as well as a UILabel that you style the way you want with the frame.origin.y = -20.0 or so. Then, set that view to self.navigationItem.titleView. Make sure you set clipsToBounds = NO and backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor].

That way, it should display the segmented control with your custom label over it, theoretically at least. Let me know how this turns out.