My view controller have a back button show on navigation bar(in a UINavigationController). There is a "edit" mode in current view. When into "edit" mode, I replace the leftBarButtonItem to a "Cancel" button, when exit the "edit" mode, I want to change the left button to "back button" again, how can I do it?
I try self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem, it just remove the "Cancel" button, but not get the "back button" back.
Now I can create a new navigation item with the UI just like the back button, and set it to as leftBarButtonItem, but the position is not same with the native back bar button, and lost the swipe back gesture.
Is there any way to get the native back bar button item back on the navigation bar?
When you leave edit mode, just set:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;
In same view controller just add self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.title = #"Cancel"; in viewWillAppear.
And add self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.title = #"Back"; in your viewDidDisappear to set back button text of your class file .m.
To set Cancel :
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.title = #"Cancel";
}
To set Back :
-(void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.title = #"Back";
}
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I am using JASidePanels in iOS and trying to get the menu button to show on the right instead of the left (center panel is a UINavigationController so the left menu button gets replaced with the back button text) but I cannot seem to get the right button to show regardless of what I try.
I tried setting only a right panel (no left panel). Is there a way within JASidePanels to move the menu button from the left side of the navigation bar to the right side?
thanks
Add a new bar button to the navigation bar within your viewDidLoad method:
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Right"
style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
target:self
action:#selector(toggleRightPanel)];
and method to be called by right bar button:
- (void)toggleRightPanel {
[[self.parentViewController valueForKey:#"sidePanelController"] performSelector:#selector(toggleRightPanel:)];
}
My app is navigated by a slide out menu from the left. On top of each viewController is a left UIBarButton titled "Navigation", that when touched, opens the slide out menu without having to do the drag effect. I am implementing speech commands into my app, and if a user speaks "Go to Finances", it segues to a viewController titled FianceViewController through instantiateViewController to pushViewController.
This all works fine, the only problem is the back button associated with push segue covers up my "Navigation" button in the left slot of the UINavigationBar. Using self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES; hides both the back button and my "Navigation" button. Is there anyway not make a back button appear when the push happens, but still allow my previously created "Navigation" bar button to be seen and used? Or is there another type of segue that I can do other than push if this UIBarButton dilemma cannot be solved?
Section of code that segues when spoken:
if ([title isEqualToString:#"FINANCES"])
{
FinanceViewController *fvc = [[self storyboard] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"finance"];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:fvc animated:YES];
}
How are you adding the navigation button?
I would try to add it after hiding the back button, something like this:
self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
UIButton *navigationButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(15.0, 15.0, 100.0, 32.0)];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.backItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:navigationButton];
Instead of hiding my back button, I figured out I could simply write over it! Using fvc.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem; before pushViewController, allows the "navigation" button to override the back button.
I have an app that uses bottom tabs aswell as a side menu, to have the button that initiates the side menu i use the typical three line menu button, to put that there I have a Navigation Bar. With the bar in place there is no way I can get the bar to be on top of the screen. I built it with interface builder, and heres a screenshot. The question is how do i have the navigation bar alone without the other grey bar above it?
The issue you're encountering is due to the fact that you're manually creating a navigation bar for your view controller, instead of using the bar that you get for free by embedding the view controller in a tab bar controller, hence the reason you see two bars. The other answer suggesting hiding the auto-generated navigation bar is not the correct solution. Instead, you should place your menu button and view title in the auto-generated bar instead of manually creating your own (you almost never want to do that, in-fact).
So what you should do instead is set the title property of your view controller to be "News", and the leftBarButtonItem property of the view controller to be your hamburger menu button (an instance of UIBarButtonItem initialized with an image for the icon).
For example (inside your view controller's viewDidLoad method or wherever appropriate):
self.title = #"News";
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"menuIcon"] style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(showSideMenu)];
If you want to remove the topmost navigation bar you need use self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES; for view controllers that used for tabs in UITabBarController:
// StoriesViewController.m
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
}
In my detail VC, I am implementing this UISplitViewController delegate method:
- (void)splitViewController:(UISplitViewController*)svc willHideViewController:(UIViewController *)aViewController withBarButtonItem:(UIBarButtonItem*)barButtonItem forPopoverController:(UIPopoverController*)pc
It is then easy for me to set the title of the button, but the result is just a button with plain text, and no back arrow. I am looking to get something like the Mail app where the master popover button also has the back chevron.
How can I do this?
Create your custom bar button item, with the chevron image, set up as you want, and set the target and action of your bar button item to be that of the one passed by the delegate callback. This way, your bar button will perform the same action as the one the system passes to you. You must create your own bar button with an image, because there is no possible way with AppStore approved API to create back bar buttons.
In iOS7, the private subclasses are UINavigationItemView + _UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView. One is the button, the other - the chevron. _UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView is a subclass of UIImageView. So it's pretty close to what you will achieve.
In iOS 8, UISplitViewController has a method:
- (UIBarButtonItem *)displayModeButtonItem
If you set the returned bar button item as the left button of a navigation bar (UINavigationBar), it will display the chevron for you.
On the other hand, if you put the returned bar button item into a toolbar (UIToolbar), it will not display the chevron.
For places where I want the chevron back button shown, but also need several of my own bar button items shown (like the Mail app on iPad does), I have to use a UINavigationBar and a UIToolbar. It's an ugly solution, but I have to partially overlay the UINavigationBar on top of the UIToolbar in order to get a back button chevron along with several of my own bar button items.
To access the default back button image used by Apple as what Leo said, the arrow is a class of type _UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView. Set this image to a back bar button and you are good to go.
Here follows the hack,
UIImage *imgViewBack ;
for (UIView *view in self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews) {
// The arrow is a class of type _UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView. This is not any of the private methods, so I think
// this is fine for the AppStore...
if ([NSStringFromClass([view class]) isEqualToString:#"_UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView"]) {
// Set the image from the Default BackBtn Imageview
UIImageView *imgView = (UIImageView *) view;
if(imgView){
imgViewBack = imgView.image ;
}
}
}
This is based on Ryan Henning's answer.
It's possible to show a back button representing the master view from the detail view controller. The UISplitview controller doesn't provide a native method for this, but it returns a bar button object which we can directly assign as navigation controller bar button. Its obvious that the detail view controller should be inside a navigation controller for this to work.
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = splitViewController.displayModeButtonItem;
I have an app that uses a side menu and has a few main screens that can be accessed from the menu and others that can only be accessed from these screens.
What I want is to have a menu button on the navigation bar that opens the menu and can only be visible on the main screens. On the other screens I want to have a back button, instead of the menu button.
I've already put the menu button like this:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"IconMenu"] style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self.revealViewController action:#selector(revealToggle:)];
But I can't figure out how to change it with the back button when I need it.
Assuming than by "main screens" you mean root (first) view controllers in the navigation view controllers corresponding to the selected side menu items, this might be a solution for your problem: you can create a superclass for all your view controllers, say MyBaseViewController and rewrite viewWillAppear: method, that will determine whether it should have a default back button or a "revealSideMenu" button, based on whether it's a "main screen" or not.
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
if (self == [self.navigationController.viewControllers firstObject]) {
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"IconMenu"] style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self.revealViewController action:#selector(revealToggle:)];
}
}
you can do that in 2 different ways:
the first is in the viewDidAppear check if the back button is already present (when you push a VC the back button automatically added but is avalaible programmatically only after the viewDidAppear) and then decide to add or not the menu button,
the second is add a parameter to your VC init method like isRoot or hasMenu or whatever you like to name it, and using that flag decide to add the menu or the back button
if you chose to add your own back button you have to call this method in your back selector
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
The easiest way, IMO, is just to click on the title bar of the first ViewController and in the Attribute Inspector (⌥+⌘+4) change the Navigation Item info the way you want: Title -> what will show up in the back button* or if you want it to say something other than the Title of the first ViewController or the word "Back" you can just put it in the Back Button field.
*If the Title of the second ViewController is too long for it to fit it will be replaced with the word "Back" (and if the word "Back" doesn't fit it will only have the arrow sign).