For some reason I'm adding left and right buttons to the navigation bar as its subview instead of using navigation item. When pushing a view controller, I'm setting its navigationItem.hidesBackButton to YES so that the ugly looking blue 'back' button will not show up. The problem I'm facing is that, after tapping my own back button, while the currently showing view controller being popped --- I mean during the animation of the 'pop', I can see a '...' in the navigation bar moving right along with the popped view controller. And, I DON'T want that '...' to appear for even 0.0000000001 second. What may I do now? Any hint would be appreciated.
Note:Problem solved with just comment. But posting this as answer so that It will help someone else having same issue.
I too had same problem with navigationBarButtonItem while adding custom barButtonItem to navigationBar in storyboard. If you are also using storyboard then just set navigationBar tint color as clear color in navigationController. By setting clear color, that weird default navigation back button will not appear anymore.
Please help! I am trying to place a Bar Button Item to a Navigation Bar and I would like the button to stay there between page transition. Is there any way to make this happen?
I have tried just adding the same button in the new View Controller's navigation bar, but it looks funny. It keeps the animation as if the button did not stay in place.
Thanks!
I have a view controller that is the detail view of a table. When you click on the row of the table it takes you to the detail view. The detail view is embedded in a navigation controller such that there is a button at the upper left of the navigation bar that sends you back to the table. So far so good.
I now want to add an edit button to the right side of the navigation bar so that you can edit the detail view. My plan is this will add another view controller modally that lets you edit the details of the item. Standard stuff.
However, when I try to drag a bar button item from the list of objects to the navigation bar, it won't take. Instead, when I let go off the mouse button, it leaves the bar button on the tab bar controller at the bottom. (My navigation scheme includes different tabs and for each tab a table, detail view etc.)
Anyone run across this before and can suggest what I'm doing wrong or some sort of workaround to add the bar button item to the right side of the navigation screen. Do I have to add it in code?
Thanks for any suggestions.
I have got the same problem using Xcode6 and I noticed that UINavigationItem is added automatically for the first ViewController that you embed into NavigationController but for the subsequent ViewControllers, you will have to add it manually as follows:
In the Object library, find Navigation Item then drag it to your
2nd ViewController in the storyboard.
In the Object library, find
Bar Button Item then drag it the navigation item that you have created in the previous step.
Now you will have your Bar Buttons stuck to the top of your scene.
Update
The solution still works with XCode 7 but I wanted to add more descriptive photo. Just in case anyone is not really familiar with standard or technical names mentioned above. Notice the red arrows in the right, they refer to step 1, step 2 mentioned above. Also note the hierarchy of views on the left red rectangle.
Nasty trick:
Change your segue to push.
Set the content you need
Set back to show
Then the content will be editable and you have a non deprecated style for segue.
Your storyboard's view controller is likely missing a Navigation Item. You can drag one from the Object library, and drop it on your view controller.
You'll then be able to drag and drop bar button items onto the left or right side of the navigation bar.
i Solved it. drag in 'Navigation Item' to your detail view. than you can drag in the Bar Button Item.
The way that I fixed this issue was, instead of dragging a UINavigationController into the Storyboard and trying to add UIBarButtonItems to that, I dragged in a UITableViewController and then went to
Editor->Embed In->Navigation Controller
Which gave the same result as before except I could add UIBarButtonItems to both sides of the navigation bar with no issues.
Its actually xcode issue.
One trick which worked for me is to add the bar button in the VIEW FILE STRUCTURE ON THE LEFT.Instaed adding on the view directly.
Hope it helps you.:)
I think it is a bug. I had the same problem.I fixed this problem by disable the size classes, then enable it.
You can disable and enable the size classes in Interface builder doc.
I also had this problem, close and reopen the project worked for me.
I believe it's an XCode quirk. I had the same issue. I had to reset Xcode and shift the placement of things on the storyboard to finally get it to go. It's working now.
I think this is a bug of Xcode. In Xcode 8, change the segue in storyboard before the tab bar view controller to all its options (show detail, present...). Then back to show. Try to drag bar button items and modify tile. It works for me!
Did you try "cleaning" your project? I know that helps me sometimes (just go to "Product" > "Clean"). Or, alternatively, delete the navigation bar and try it again.
If you think it's a programming error, feel free to pass on your code. I'd be happy to help in any way I can. :)
You must reset xCode IDE . Close xCode and write the below codes at terminal...It will work.
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.*
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.dt.Xcode.savedState
rm -rf $HOME/Library/Developer/Xcode
Same issue. I had a Table View Controller inside a Navigation Controller and many ViewControllers following further down the chain. A 'Navigation Item' was being created automatically for the FIRST root view controller and I could add a 'Bar Button Item' to this without a problem. Via the Storyboard, drag and drop. But thats all. On the following Table View Controller and further view controllers, even though they were within the initial Navigation Controller (auto generated back button appeared), storyboard would never let me add a Bar Button Item.
Wael Showair's solution did not work for me. Bar Button Items wouldn't appear.
I solved it programmatically in the end (Swift 2.0):
var testButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Test Button", style .Plain, target: self, action: "testButtonMethod")
self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = testButton
No extra Navigation item or Bar Button Item needed.
I was too facing the same problem.I was able to fix this issue by selecting the root view controller option and then in simulated matrix changed the Top bar option to Opaque Navigation Bar and was able to add the item on top of navigation bar.Hope this answer will help someone.
I had the same issue in xcode 8. I had to simply close xcode and reopen the project and then I was able to add the bar button to the Root Controller without any issues.
For XCode 8
There are many answers here. I tried some of them but I couldn't make it.
So I found my solution, just select your ViewController, go Attributes Inspector section and change the Top Bar to Opaque Navigation Bar and Boom. You will see navigation bar on your storyboard. You can change the title or add some item. If you don't want to keep Opaque you can change style to Inferred.
In Xcode 10, I just changed the type of segue going to this new view controller to 'Push (deprecated)', added the navigation item as it was allowed after I made this switch. If you switch back to your originally desired segue type, the navigation item will remain.
Instead of drag the "Bar Button Item" to the "Navigation Controller", drag it to the "Detail View Controller".
As you embed the Detail view into the "Navigation View", "Navigation Item" will be added to the "Detail View Controller". If you drag the "Bar Button Item" to the right side of the Navigation Item, the item will be included under the "Right Bar Button Items"
like Mark Lyons said , I used the same solution.
used push segue first
added the bar item
return back to show segue
done
In Xcode 11, you can drag a button to the navigation bar to create your bar button.
when i drag the bar button item onto the view controller they will not stay at the top of the view they will automatically go to the bottom under the table view. Does anyone know what is wrong?
You can fix this by moving the bar button item under the navigation item, inside document outline windows.
Before
After
That should fix the issue. I verified the issue in Xcode 6.3.2
If you navigated to this view-controller via a push segue, it does not have an instance of the navigation bar in storyboard.
You need to drag in a "Navigation Item" object, and then you can add your Bar Button Item on to this.
indy and timbrah's fixes didn't work for me... but the below did.
To fix this, select Navigation Item in the Object Library and drag it onto the Root View. Note, it replaces the current one. Then you can drag a Bar Button Item onto as you like. Hope this helps.
Actually, it seems as if the top bar isn't clearly designated as a navigation bar anymore. I had to select Root View Controller (first icon at the very top left of the screen) then chose the Show Attributes Inspector and at the Top Bar line item under Simulated Metrics chose Translucent Navigation Bar. That enabled it as a navigation bar and I was abled to drag a bar button item there. Weird!
I had same issue today with XCode 7. I have next stack: NC-(root)->VC1-(Show (e.g. Push))->VC2. After I've created VC2 there was no Navigation Item at all. To make it appear I changed segue type from Show (e.g. Push) to Deprecated Push and brought it back to Show (e.g. Push) and now I can use it correctly
You have to drag the Bar Button Item to one of the sides of the navigation controller's navigation bar. So, in your screenshot it would be all the way to the right or left of that bar that has "Root View Controller" in it.
From what I can tell this bug is still around in the 6.3 release. The only way I've been able to add items when this happens is to drag them under the navigation item in the left hand sidebar.
In my situation needed to select ViewControllerScene inside the document outline then forward attributes inspector then change Top Bar to Translucent Navigation Bar
Not sure if this is a bug in Xcode 6(I use Beta 4) or expected behaviour.
When I have a View Controller in a Navigation Controller and 'push' (deprecated segue) a Table View Controller(TVC) I can drag a Bar Button Item to the Navigation Bar in the TVC.
When I do the same but 'show' (new adaptive segue) the TVC, the Bar Button Item drops to the bottom, and in fact doesn't show up when I build the project.
A hack to resolve this problem is to set it up as 'Push' to begin with, drag on the Bar Button Item, and then change the segue to 'Show'. But - is this necessary? Is this an Xcode Bug or am I missing something?
I have tried creating the issue you are facing with bar button at bottom. It’s not an issue or Xcode bug.
But in new Xcode when you use segue to ’Show (e.g. Push)’ then in next view you won’t get navigation bar.
You need to add navigation bar and then add bar button item to navigation bar.
Hope your problem will be solved.
I had the same issue and fixed it by simply selecting the view controller and changing the "Top Bar" to "Opaque Navigation Bar" from Inferred. This let me add the Bar Button Item on top.