UIBarButtonItem icon white when added via IB, black when added programmatically

Question

When I add an icon to a UIBarButtonItem via the Interface Builder, the icon is displayed white. When I add the same icon file programmatically to another

Answer 1

In your code, you are setting an UIButton as the subview of an UIBarButtonItem. UIBarButtonItem is already a button, so you shouldn't add another button as the subview.

Try this:

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"icon.png"];
rootViewController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:image] autorelease];