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. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/luketheh%40apple.com > > This email sent to luket...@apple.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com