Custom background for UINavigationBar problems

Question

I've managed to add a custom background to my navigation bar by using:

UIImageView *iv = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"UINavigationBar.png"]];
[myViewController.navigationBar insertSubview:iv atIndex:0];
[iv release];

This works fine and I can see the title and buttons okay. However, when I drill down one level and then go back to the root, the buttons are hidden, but the title is still visible. It appears the navigation bar image is covering the button items.

I'm confused as I'm inserting it at the bottom so I would assume when the navigation items are pushed and popped that they are displayed above other views in the navigation bar.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

Answer 1

Following the description from here, I suggest adding a category to the nav bar.

@implementation UINavigationBar (UINavigationBarCategory)

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // Drawing code 
    UIImage *img = [UIImage imageNamed: @"navbar_background.png"];
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, self.frame.size.height), img.CGImage);

}
@end