Changing segmented control segment background not working - iphone

Question

Ive added a segmented control to the header of a uitableview. this works fine. but for some reason i cannot make the segmented buttons (or at least just the first button) have a red background color. it just loads with the default silver.
-(UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {
UIView* NEWview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)];
NEWview.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:78.0/255.0f green:88.0/255.0f blue:74.0/255.0f alpha:1.0];
NSArray *itemArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: #"Organisations", #"Events", nil];
UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:itemArray];
segmentedControl.frame = CGRectMake(15, 5, 290, 30);
segmentedControl.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStylePlain;
segmentedControl.selectedSegmentIndex = 1;
UIColor *newSelectedTintColor = [UIColor redColor];
[[[segmentedControl subviews] objectAtIndex:0] setTintColor:newSelectedTintColor];
[NEWview addSubview:segmentedControl];
return NEWview;
}
Any Ideas? Thanks in advance for any help..

Answer 1

Tint color for segmentedcontrol works only if segmented control is of bar style.
segmentedControl.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;
segmentedControl.tintColor=[UIColor redColor];

Answer 2

Refer this link to changed background color of selected segment
U can also do is set title color slected and not selected like this:
NSDictionary *normalAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIFont fontWithName:#"Arial" size:20.0],UITextAttributeFont,
[UIColor colorWithRed:75.0/255.0 green:75.0/255.0 blue:75.0/255.0 alpha:1.0], UITextAttributeTextColor,
[UIColor clearColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,
[NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 1)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset,
nil];//[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject: [UIColor redColor]forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor];
[segmentCtrl setTitleTextAttributes:normalAttributes forState:UIControlStateNormal];
NSDictionary *selectedAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIFont fontWithName:#"Arial" size:20.0],UITextAttributeFont,
[UIColor redColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
[UIColor clearColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,
[NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 1)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset,
nil] ;//[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject: [UIColor redColor]forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor];
[segmentCtrl setTitleTextAttributes:selectedAttributes forState:UIControlStateSelected];