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[alewis]

I am new to iphone SDK Development. I have created a 8 page tableview rss feeder that allows me to see my Newest post on Youtube, 4 different blogs and Twitter. I have created this app from watching videos and reading I still have a big problem that I can not figure out and have not been able to find any answers.I put a background image on my blog tableview( on all of them but just for example) and it is a black background. Well the text is black also so I can not see the text. Is there a way to make it so my text is white so that I can see everything in the table?

[kyledecot]

Originally Posted by alewis

I am new to iphone SDK Development. I have created a 8 page tableview rss feeder that allows me to see my Newest post on Youtube, 4 different blogs and Twitter. I have created this app from watching videos and reading I still have a big problem that I can not figure out and have not been able to find any answers.I put a background image on my blog tableview( on all of them but just for example) and it is a black background. Well the text is black also so I can not see the text. Is there a way to make it so my text is white so that I can see everything in the table?

It would depend on how you are doing your table. Are you just inserting the text into your tableview cell as a subview or are you drawing in the cell in your drawRect: method?

[Maksumko]

2alewis

What component you use to out text?

[alewis]

Originally Posted by kyledecot

It would depend on how you are doing your table. Are you just inserting the text into your tableview cell as a subview or are you drawing in the cell in your drawRect: method?

I am inserting it as a subview

[alewis]

Originally Posted by Maksumko

2alewis

What component you use to out text?

Well what do you mean? I have a lot of components doing a lot of different things! I just really am confused

[kerofrog]

Assuming that I have read your question correctly. You wish to change the text color of the text in the cells of your tableview?

You can do this in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method. Code shown below.

// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        // One of the styles you can use, the other three are UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
        // UITableViewCellStyleValue1 and UITableViewCellStyleValue2
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    
    // Set up the cell...
    
    // Change the text color of the cell
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    // If you also have a detail text label
    cell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
	
    return cell;
}

[alewis]

Originally Posted by kerofrog

Assuming that I have read your question correctly. You wish to change the text color of the text in the cells of your tableview?

You can do this in your cellForRowAtIndexPath method. Code shown below.

// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        // One of the styles you can use, the other three are UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
        // UITableViewCellStyleValue1 and UITableViewCellStyleValue2
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    
    // Set up the cell...
    
    // Change the text color of the cell
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

    // If you also have a detail text label
    cell.detailTextLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
	
    return cell;
}

THANK YOU! You are amazing!!! I have one more question? I have created a background for each page with a different variation of my Logo. The problem is when I go from any of the pages to another the background does not work prop. For example when I go from Blogs(background is right) to Blogs 1 content(background changes to the new proper one it should be) and then when I go back to blogs home(background does not change back to the right one it stays the same as blogs1 content). This is a big problem and I can not figure it out. Thank you so much for helping me! Really thank you!

[alewis]

Originally Posted by alewis

THANK YOU! You are amazing!!! I have one more question? I have created a background for each page with a different variation of my Logo. The problem is when I go from any of the pages to another the background does not work prop. For example when I go from Blogs(background is right) to Blogs 1 content(background changes to the new proper one it should be) and then when I go back to blogs home(background does not change back to the right one it stays the same as blogs1 content). This is a big problem and I can not figure it out. Thank you so much for helping me! Really thank you!

Here is the Code that I am using to bring the picture up in the background

- (void)viewDidLoad {
// Add the following line if you want the list to be editable
// self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.parentViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iphone-app.png"]];
self.tableView.separatorColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}

[kerofrog]

Originally Posted by alewis

Here is the Code that I am using to bring the picture up in the background

- (void)viewDidLoad {
// Add the following line if you want the list to be editable
// self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.parentViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iphone-app.png"]];
self.tableView.separatorColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}

Hazarding a guess, your problem is most likely the use of viewDidLoad. viewDidLoad only gets called once, when the view controller is loaded for the first time. If you want this code to be called again when going back to this page, then consider using viewWillAppear method instead.

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    // Add the following line if you want the list to be editable
    // self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
    self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    self.parentViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iphone-app.png"]];
    self.tableView.separatorColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}

[alewis]

Originally Posted by kerofrog

Hazarding a guess, your problem is most likely the use of viewDidLoad. viewDidLoad only gets called once, when the view controller is loaded for the first time. If you want this code to be called again when going back to this page, then consider using viewWillAppear method instead.

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    // Add the following line if you want the list to be editable
    // self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
    self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    self.parentViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iphone-app.png"]];
    self.tableView.separatorColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}

Thank you~ That worked perfect for me! I really appreciate all your help!