Custom UIPageControl view, replacing dots with “Page X of Y”

Question

I\'m trying to find a way to replace the dots of a UIPageControl with a caption that reads \"Page X of Y\" since I\'ll likely have >50 items. I\'m just becoming familiar with Co

Answer 1

Also, I should add for anyone considering subclassing UIPageControl (as I came here (unfortunately) after doing), the class for some boneheaded reason doesn't do its drawing in drawRect:, or any other public method for that matter. I suspect that at some point during page updates it sets up a drawing context and fills it with its dots, but I am here to warn you:

• You cannot override drawRect: in UIPageControl so that you draw custom dots instead of the standard dots. Even if you get your draw rect to draw your dots, UIPageControl will always (yay!) draw its little white dots.

This makes the class essentially un-subclassable. Sure, you could, but why?

And more importantly, why would apple make a class with such ridiculously abnormal behavior?! drawRect: is there for a reason! This reminds me of working with NSMatrix back in the pre- imagebrowser days...