Weird behavior with UISegmentedControl and UIAppearance

Question

I am setting the appearance of the segmented control via these statements in the app delegate.

    [[UISegmentedControl appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage         


        

Answer 1

This is a bug with UISegmentedControl, I think. You can work around it by setting the selected segment after a delay, to allow the control time to draw itself. You don't even have to use an actual delay, just something like:

[self performSelector:@selector(setPreferences) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.0];

Where setPreferences updates the value of your segmented control.