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UISegmentedControl selected segment color

Asked 2010-02-16T03:56:45.790
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Is there any way to customize color of selected segment in UISegmentedControl?

I've found segmentedController.tintColor property, which lets me customize color of the whole segmented control. The problem is, when I select bright color for tintColor property, selected segment becomes almost unrecognizable (its color is almost the same as the rest of segmented control, so its hard to distinguish selected and unselected segments). So I cannot use any good bright colors for segmented control. The solution would be some separate property for selected segment color but I cannot find it. Did anyone solve this?

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I found the answers above very helpful. I am using the segmented control to set the precision of a knob. I took a hybrid of the answers above and came up with this:

-(void) viewDidLoad {

NSArray *segments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Course", @"Fine",nil];

[knob setPrecision:0.1]; // initial precision
// Set starting values

UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:segments];

segmentedControl.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;
segmentedControl.frame = CGRectMake(120, 680, 228, 30);
[segmentedControl addTarget:self action:@selector(precisionSelect:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
segmentedControl.momentary = YES;

[self.view addSubview:segmentedControl];
}   

- (void)precisionSelect:(UISegmentedControl*)sender
{   
    UIColor *tintcolor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];   
    if (sender.selectedSegmentIndex == 0) {
        [[sender.subviews objectAtIndex:0] setTintColor:nil];
        [[sender.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setTintColor:tintcolor];
    [knob setPrecision:0.1]; // Coarse
    } else {
        [[sender.subviews objectAtIndex:0] setTintColor:tintcolor];
        [[sender.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setTintColor:nil];
    [knob setPrecision:0.05]; // Fine
    }

}

Hope this helps others.. A key for me, was being able to reset the unselected index using: setTintColor:nil];

answered 2012-08-11T11:47:50.810

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