Change UISearchBar background image?

elado · October 2009

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 · October 2009

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 · March 2010

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

taimur.ajmal · June 2010

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

nobre84 · June 2010

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

jfmartin67 · December 2010

elado;132080 said:
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 · February 2011

nobre84;211446 said:
Beware that hardcoding view Indexes like this often doesn't work across different OS versions.

Is there any other workaround for this.

daracne · November 2011

You could try this:


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

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