I've created my toolBar and navigationBar and added the respective items to it. I'm still new to coding but its my understanding that UINavigationController only displays the navBar and toolBar for the viewController in the top of the seque. I'm doing this without storyboards and in swift.
If you want to add more than one bar button items to UINavigationBar programatically, you can do that like
UIBarButtonItem *btnShare = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAction target:self action:#selector(share)];
UIBarButtonItem *btnRefresh = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemRefresh target:self action:#selector(refresh)];
[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:btnShare, btnRefresh, nil]];
Hope this will help you.
Trying to customize my back button in a drilldown navigation controller.
On my one view controller I have an Add button where the code programatically generates a new UIViewController:
- (void)add:(id)sender
{
MyAddViewController *addController = [[MyAddViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyAddViewController" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:addController animated:YES];
[addController release];
}
This works and when I click the add button it drills down into the new view. Inside the viewDidLoad method of MyAddViewController.m I have:
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
But this isn't working. The back button in the navigation controller remains the title of the previous view's controller on the stack. It seems that line does nothing. Did I miss something?
Thanks
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem is for the back button that appears on the view pushed by the view controller. So you need to move that line to the previous view controller.
This will only work on each child after the viewController that has self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.
You're confusing the backBarButtonItem and the leftBarButtonItem. From the UINavigationItem docs on backBarButtonItem:
When this item is the back item of the
navigation bar—when it is the next
item below the top item—it may be
represented as a back button on the
navigation bar. Use this property to
specify the back button. The target
and action of the back bar button item
you set should be nil. The default
value is a bar button item displaying
the navigation item’s title.
So, if you were to change:
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
To:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
I believe you would get the desired effect.
You can't replace the backBarButtonItem, but you can use the leftBarButtonItem to override it. But to get the new button to perform operate the same as the back button, you do need to set the target and action of the new button something like:
- (void)dismissMyView {
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Quit" style: UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered
target:self action:#selector(dismissMyView)];
}
If ViewController A push ViewController B meanwhile we want to set the back bar button tittle, we should set "self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = ..".if it was set in ViewController B, it will not work as we want.
I have 4 buttons on the top bar setup using array of buttons with leftBarButtonItems and rightBarButtonItems. When I push to another view and return the buttons are gone. The area where the buttons should be located are not active (cannot select). If I put the application in the background and bring it back to the foreground the buttons are restored.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Here is the code that initializes the buttons:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIBarButtonItem *selectButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Select" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(selectPlayers:)];
UIBarButtonItem *manageButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Manage" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(managePlayers:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems =
[NSArray arrayWithObjects:manageButton, selectButton, nil];
UIBarButtonItem *TeamsButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Teams" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(CreateTeams:)];
UIBarButtonItem *TransferButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Transfer" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(Transfer:)];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems =
[NSArray arrayWithObjects:TeamsButton,TransferButton, nil];
}
I found a workaround. The problem view has the status bar hidden. The pushed view shows the status bar. If I also hide the status bar on the pushed view the buttons no longer disappear. This looks like a bug in xcode or IOS.
I have a "LoginViewController" which presents a new Controller which is a subclass of UINavigationcontroller when clicking a button:
MPNavigationViewController *controller = [[MPNavigationViewController alloc] initWithRootViewController:[[MPQuestionFirstViewController alloc] init]];
[self presentViewController: controller animated:YES completion:nil];
"MPNavigationViewController" subclass UINavigationController and uses "REMenu" to have a sliding-from-top menu ("Link") and on viewDidLoad I try to add a right button to open it:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIBarButtonItem *toggleMenuButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Show" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:#selector(toggleMenu:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = toggleMenuButton;
[self initMenu];
}
It doesn't show any button on the navigation bar. Why could it be?
If I try to add the button from one of the "viewControllers" that will handle sections on the menu. It shows the button, but it doesn't paint it at all.
Thanks.
You are using subclass of UINavigationcontroller which is not actually view controller.
There is only one solution, You need to create your custom button and add it to UINavigationbar as a subview..
Use this hope it will help.
UIBarButtonItem *doneButton =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(goToDoneButtonAction)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = doneButton;
By default the back button uses as a text on it a title of a viewcontroller.
Can I change text on the back button without changing a title of a view controller?
I need this because I have a view controller which title is too long to display and in this case I would like to display just "Back" as a caption for back button.
I tried the following which didn't work:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.title = #"Back";
Thanks.
Try
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
I found that by looking at the backBarButtonItem docs in Apple's docs for UINavigationItem.
Marc W's approach worked great once I figured out which controller to apply it to: the one being re-titled, not the one on top. So if this is the navigation stack:
(bottom) ControllerA -> ControllerB (top)
...and you want to give a shorter title for ControllerA in the back-button displayed when ControllerB is on top, you apply the property change to ControllerA.
So it's more in the context of self.title, not like the other left/right-bar-button setters.
You can do it in the storyboard. Find the view controller you want to go back to (the one with the long title), select it's Navigation Item, and open the Attributes Inspector (Alt+Cmd+4), insert the custom Back Button title.
Thanks Marco... that helped me...
Here is what i did.
If you are using a tableView to navigate to different views... put the code:
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
In your didSelectRowAtIndexPath method... of the first Controller... Controller A.
When you navigate to Controller B the button will have the title "Back".
The back button pulls its text from the title of the parent view controller.
In the parent view controller (the view controller that appears when you tap the back button), set its own title as the desired text on the back button.
For example, let's say we have a RootViewController class. When we click a cell in its table view, we push an instance of SecondViewController. We want the back button of the SecondViewController instance to read, "Home."
in the viewDidLoad method of RootViewController.m:
self.title = #"Home";
in the viewDidLoad method of SecondViewController.m:
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton;
[backButton release];
If you want your back button to read, "Back," set the title of the parent view controller to #"Back";
This work better for me. Try :
self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
If you are using storyboard:
Open StoryBoard
In Document Outline window find ViewController to which you want to
return to
Click on Navigation Item of that ViewController
In Attributes explorer change Back Button value to your custom tile
That is it, enjoy...
And in MonoTouch the following works (in ViewDidLoad of the parent controller):
NavigationItem.BackBarButtonItem = new UIBarButtonItem( "Back", UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, null);
[self.navigationItem setBackBarButtonItem:[[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:nil action:nil]];
This worked for me.
In your parent view controller, set the back button when view loads:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem =
[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"title"
style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
target:nil
action:nil];
}
Notice that we don't need to include autorelease at the end with the latest iOS version.
Hope this helps!
[self.navigationController.navigationBar.backItem setTitle:#"back"];
It works for me. You can replace "back" with something else.
This one worked for me if you don't want to have a title!
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#" " style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
I finally knew why these answers did not work for me at first. I set the title in storyboard. When i set the title on code. it works!
self.navigationItem.title = #"Main Menu";
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#" " style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:nil action:nil];
[[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem:backButton];
My solution was to set title when the view controller is pushed to navigation stack and reset it by use of delegate method before pushed vc closes:
So I put the title change in calling view controller when I push the other view controller like:
self.pushedVC = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"pushedVCIdentifier"];
self.pushedVC.delegate = self;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:self.pushedVC animated:YES];
self.title = #"Back";
and in delegate callback function (which I invoke in viewWillDissapear):
-(void)pushedVCWillClose:(PushedVC *)sender
{
self.title = #"Previous Title";
}
If you want not only to change the text of the Back button and remain the original left-arrow shape, but also to do something when user clicks the Back button, I recommend you to have a look around my "CustomNavigationController".
//You can achieve this by setting the title in the previous view controller as shown below
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
//Set Title for this view
self.navigationItem.title = "My Title"
}
override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
//Set Title for back button in next view
self.navigationItem.title = "Back"
}
For to change back button title, refer below code
InformationVC *infoController=[[InformationVC alloc]init];[self.navigationController infoController animated:YES];
//Below code changed back button title on InformationVC page.
UIBarButtonItem *backBarButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Information" style: UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target: nil action: nil];
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backBarButton;`enter code here`
In Swift5, the backBarButtom cannot be edited. Hence, we need to hide the backBarButtom first, then use a customised leftbarButtom to replace backBarButtom. Here is the detailed solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63868300/13939003
This worked for me:
self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = "Back"