Can not change UILabel text color

Question

I want to change the UILabel text color but I can't change the color, This is how my code looks like.

UILabel *categoryTitle = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 46, 16)]; categoryTitle.text = @"abc"; categoryTitle.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; categoryTitle.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12]; categoryTitle.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter; categoryTitle.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES; categoryTitle.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:188 green:149 blue:88 alpha:1.0]; [self.view addSubview:categoryTitle]; [categoryTitle release]; 

The label text color is white ,not my custom color.

Thank for any help.

Answer 1

UIColor's RGB components are scaled between 0 and 1, not up to 255.

Try

categoryTitle.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(188/255.f) green:... blue:... alpha:1.0]; 

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In Swift:

categoryTitle.textColor = UIColor(red: 188/255.0, green: ..., blue: ..., alpha: 1) 

Answer 2

May be the better way is

UIColor *color = [UIColor greenColor]; [self.myLabel setTextColor:color]; 

Thus we have colored text