GLKit & adding tints to textures

Question

I am having issue with tinting a PNG image with GLKit.

I have a white PNG image that I load into the application and then use it to create a texture:

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Answer 1

I have managed to solve my problem and here is the solution

-(void)render
{
 if (texture_m != nil) {

          effect_m.texture2d0.enabled = GL_TRUE;

          // here you need to env mode to GLKTextureEnvModeModulate rather than GLKTextureEnvModeReplace

          effect_m.texture2d0.envMode = GLKTextureEnvModeModulate;
          effect_m.texture2d0.target = GLKTextureTarget2D;
          effect_m.texture2d0.name = texture_m.name;
     }

      // then here I have added the tint colour to the GLKBaseEffect class as constant colour which I imagine replaces the calls to  glColor4f for OpenGL1.1

     effect_m.useConstantColor = YES;
     float alphaValue = 0.7;
     GLKVector4  colour = GLKVector4Make( 0* alphaValue, 1* alphaValue, 1* alphaValue, alphaValue );
     effect_m.constantColor = colour;

     // remember multiplying the alpha value to each colour component

     [effect_m prepareToDraw];

     glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

     GLfloat squareVertices[] = {
        50, 50,
        150, 50,
        50, 150,
        150, 150
    };

    GLfloat squareTexture[] = {
        0, 0,
        1, 0,
        0, 1,
        1, 1
    };



    // glColor4f not necessary
    // glColor4f( 1, 0, 0, 1 );

    glEnableVertexAttribArray(GLKVertexAttribPosition);
    glEnableVertexAttribArray(GLKVertexAttribTexCoord0);
    glEnable(GL_BLEND);

     glBlendFunc( GL_ONE, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA );

    glVertexAttribPointer(GLKVertexAttribPosition, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, squareVertices);
    glVertexAttribPointer(GLKVertexAttribTexCoord0, 2, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, squareTexture );
    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);

    glDisable(GL_BLEND);
    glDisableVertexAttribArray(GLKVertexAttribPosition);
    glDisableVertexAttribArray(GLKVertexAttribTexCoord0);
}