Set the color of a view's title?

[Danneman101]

Is it possible to set the color of the top-title of a view, ie. the one appearing on top of everything ("Testing" on this image: http://pessoal.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/standard-200x300.png)?

Ive tried:


self.title = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
// or
self.title.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];


..but no success.

I know Im pointing to the correct title with "self.title" since:


self.title = @"Dude";


..does in fact change the title to "Dude".

[dejo]

What you're really changing here is the title property of a UINavigationItem. And since title is just an NSString, no, you can't change its color. You may be able to achieve what you want by placing a UILabel into the titleView and going from there.

[BlackWolf]

What you're really changing here is the title property of a UINavigationItem. And since title is just an NSString, no, you can't change its color. You may be able to achieve what you want by placing a UILabel into the titleView and going from there.

yes, that works. like dejo said, you have the an UINavigationItem here. If you read through the reference of UINavigationItem
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UINavigationItem_Class/Reference/UINavigationItem.html
you will see that instead of the title you can set a titleView property, which can be any kind of UIView. With this, you can for example display an image as the title (UIImageView) or, that's what you want, an UILabel.

[Danneman101]

Ah, I see :)

I must be doing something wrong, though, since now Im not getting any title at all - not "Hello" and not the previous standard one I had without this code.


UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
myLabel.text = @"Hello";
myLabel.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
self.navigationItem.titleView = myLabel;

[fishkorp]

I just add my custom view (label, image, etc) as a subview to the navigation item's view.

[BlackWolf]

I just add my custom view (label, image, etc) as a subview to the navigation item's view.

possible, but not the official way :D

[dejo]

I must be doing something wrong, though, since now Im not getting any title at all - not "Hello" and not the previous standard one I had without this code.


UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
myLabel.text = @"Hello";
myLabel.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
self.navigationItem.titleView = myLabel;

You haven't set the frame for myLabel.

Also, be careful. titleView is ignored if leftBarButtonItem is not nil.

[PhoneyDeveloper]

@Danneman101, give your label a frame and use initWithFrame. Yours has no size. You might also set the autoResizemask.

[dejo]

Just realize that you are going to have to do a bunch of formatting (font, backgroundColor, etc.) to your label to get it even close in appearance to the default title look.

[Danneman101]

Thanks guys for your help :)

Yes, a lot of formatting seems to be needed. The biggest problem seem to get the label from not moving in realtime, and hit the exact middle spot in the GCRectMake.


// --------------------
// SET: Title-Label
// --------------------
UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] init];
myLabel.frame = CGRectMake(150, 0, 100, 44); //x,y,width,height
myLabel.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
myLabel.text = self.title;
self.navigationItem.titleView = myLabel;