UIPageControl + UIAppearance

Question

The docs for UIAppearance is extremely poor.

I want to customize the colours for a UIPageController, but I am unable to figure out which properties to set. When I go [UIPagecontrol appearance] set I get probably hundreds of options, so it's nearly impossible to figure out what's what.

I would assume it's possible with UIAppearance proxy, right?

Thank you

Sympathin

The release notes seem to have enough info to get started: developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/General/… A key point seems to be to check the headers for UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR ("Marks a method that participates in the appearance proxy API.") – Aikens

I don't think UIPageControl adopts the UIAppearance protocol. Page controls are relatively trivial to implement; you will probably have to make your own or find an open source one. Like github.com/honcheng/iOS-StyledPageControl. – Aikens

Just an update for anyone reading this, UIPageControl will support the UIAppearance protocol in iOS 6. – Sympathin

Answer 1

UIAppearance protocol was added to UIPageControl as of iOS 6.

The properties you can customise are:

• Dot tint colour
• Highlighted dot tint colour

This is an excerpt from UIPageControl.h, as you can see these UIAppearance additions are only available from iOS 6.

@property(nonatomic,retain) UIColor *pageIndicatorTintColor NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
@property(nonatomic,retain) UIColor *currentPageIndicatorTintColor NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;

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