Customizing UISlider look

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tcurdt picture tcurdt · Apr 16, 2009 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

To customize the visual look of a UISlider you can set the thumb and track images. Part of the track images gets stretched to the appropriate with. From the documentation:

A stretchable region sits between two end cap regions. The end caps define the portions of the image that remain as is and are not stretched. The stretchable region is a 1-point wide area between the end caps that can be replicated to make the image appear longer.

Now the problem I have is that my stretchable region needs to be more than 1-point wide. (It's a pattern) Unfortunately the 1-point width seems to be hard coded in the SDK.

Anyone having an idea how to work around this? Or will I have to write my own slider from scratch for this?

Answer

KPM picture KPM · Jun 11, 2010

Just use transparent images as track images, and put a UIImageView below :)

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