Appearance customizations get applied at layout time, so your view simply 
hasn't had the appearance applied yet in -initWithFrame:. That's why 
self.tabFont is nil.

Luke

On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Alex Kac <a...@webis.net>
 wrote:

> Trying to see if I understand this correctly and what I may be doing wrong. I 
> have a tab bar project that is in my workspace and I've added this to its 
> font property: UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR as such:
> 
> @interface AKTabBarButton : UIView {
> 
> }
> 
> @property (nonatomic, strong) UIFont *tabFont UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
> 
> - (id)initWithTabBarItem:(AKTabBarItem*)item;
> @end
> 
> 
> Within the initWithFrame: method:
> 
> label.font = self.tabFont ? self.tabFont : [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:10]; 
> 
> and in code before we ever create any tab bars:
> 
> [[AKTabBarButton appearance] setTabFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12]];
> 
> However self.tabFont is always nil. Its never getting my customized font. All 
> the articles/websites/devforum pages I've read say that this is all I should 
> have to do, but as something that's not documented much I'm not seeing how 
> its supposed to work. 
> 
> I'd love any tips or pointers on what I'm doing wrong.
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