Tiled Background Image: Can I do that easily with UIImageView?

Question

I have a fullscreen background image that is tiled, i.e. it has to be reproduced a few times horizontally and vertically in order to make a big one. Like in the browsers on

Answer 1

As I really like Interface Builder I created this UIImageView subclass to apply tiled backgrounds:

@interface PETiledImageView : UIImageView

@end

@implementation PETiledImageView

- (void)awakeFromNib
{
    [super awakeFromNib];

    UIImage * imageToTile = self.image;
    self.image = nil;
    UIColor * tiledColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:imageToTile];
    self.backgroundColor = tiledColor;
}

@end

I tried overriding setImage: but it seems IB doesn't call it when decoding a Nib file.