Access the UIPageControl created by iOS6 UIPageViewController?

Question

I\'m using a UIPageViewController with Navigation set to Horizontal, Transition Style set to Scroll (in InterfaceBuilder), and no spine. Which gives me a lovely

Answer 1

You can access this for all PageControl objects by using appearance (see the UIAppearance protocol), but to get a specific instance you'd have to use recursion. Swift code:

let pageControl = UIPageControl.appearance()

Answer 2

How about a nice, up to date Swift 1-liner?

let pageControl = view.subviews.first { $0 is UIPageControl } as? UIPageControl

Or if you like an extension:

extension UIPageViewController {
    var pageControl: UIPageControl? {
        return view.subviews.first { $0 is UIPageControl } as? UIPageControl
    }
}