Change UISearchBar background image?

[elado]

Is it possible to change UISearchBar's background image?

I tried via a category extension class:

@implementation UISearchBar (CustomBG)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
	UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"search-bg.png"];
	[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];
}

When I put a breakpoint it does enter the function.

With UITabBar/UINavigationBar this code works perfectly.

Thanks!

[elado]

Answering myself:

The UISearchBar's BG Image comes from UISearchBarBackground class, however, I have no access to it so I couldn't overwrite its drawRect.

The solution for me is:

	UIView* segment=[searchBar.subviews objectAtIndex:0];
	segment.hidden=YES;
	UIView* bg=[searchBar.subviews objectAtIndex:1];
	bg.hidden=YES;

Along with the drawRect for only UISearchBar (as mentioned in the previous message).

Works perfectly (as I don't need the segment control).

[jogo]

thx pal! i was digging around for days to find a solution to this!

[taimur.ajmal]

Thanks solved my problem in minutes that would have otherwise eaten up days.

[nobre84]

Beware that hardcoding view Indexes like this often doesn't work across different OS versions.

[jfmartin67]

Originally Posted by elado

Is it possible to change UISearchBar's background image?

I tried via a category extension class:

@implementation UISearchBar (CustomBG)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
	UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"search-bg.png"];
	[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height)];
}

When I put a breakpoint it does enter the function.

With UITabBar/UINavigationBar this code works perfectly.

Thanks!

I'm using a UIViewController with a UISearchBar defined in Interface Builder and available in my code with searchBar variable. My question is, where do you put this code? I guess this is in the .m file of the UIViewController but then, it won't have access to the searchBar variable from there, Xcode reports this as an error... any advice?

[mpramodjain]

Originally Posted by nobre84

Beware that hardcoding view Indexes like this often doesn't work across different OS versions.

Is there any other workaround for this.

[daracne]

You could try this:

for (id aSubview in searchBar.subviews) {
   if ([aSubview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"UISearchBarBackground")])
      [aSubview removeFromSuperview];
}