in many iOS projects you can see toolbar items that are grouped like this
As you can see the arrows are grouped. Any idea how to achieve this by code?
Actually you can put anything (any View) in UIToolbar. Every UIBarButtonItem has a property "customView". Just set the customView any view you want. In this case it's a UISegmentedControl. You can also simply drag out an UISegmentedControl onto your UIToolbar in Interface Builder.
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I am using the UIBarButtonItems to trigger special actions but I also want to add another button on the bottom part of the screen with the same dimensions as the ones created in the NavigationBar, how could I do this?
Can I do it in the Interface Builder with some fixed width/height constrains or do I have to do it programatically, if so could you give me an example?
Thank you
The easiest way would be to add a UIToolbar to the bottom of the view. If your view controller is in a UINavigationController, the best way to do this would be to add the bar button items, either in Interface Builder by drag-and-drop or programmatically using setToolbarItems.
I've subclassed UINavigationBar, I wanted to have a UIView contains UIImageView + UILabel inside it, I'm able to achieve it by setting titleView property. But, what I want to know is whether its possible to add it inside subclass directly?
Better way add one UIView on Navigationbar and then add any component on that so it is easy to manage those component because if you add component on left button right button and title label it not that much flexible to customise (i.e. if you added any component on titleLabel you can set that component frame only equal or less that title label. but if you add on UIView on Navigation bar then you can customise all components easily)
I hope it will help you.
I am trying to implement a simple mobile browser in iOS. I am trying to include two UIToolbars; one at the top and one at the bottom. The top toolbar will consist of a UITextField and a GO button. The bottom toolbar will consist of back and forward buttons.
I want this to work correctly in both portrait and landscape modes. However, I noticed that autolayout does not work for UIToolbar items. So I cannot set constraints for my UITextField and the buttons. How do I fix this?
Yes autolayout does not work for UIToolbar items because they are mostly UIBarItem instead of subclass of UIView.
You can still set up constraints by using special items
I am using Storyboards, and am interested in inserting a UISegmentedControl in my UITableView controller as such:
When I try to drag one directly from the object list, I can't manage to insert on top of the tableView above the search bar and below the nav bar. I also didn't have any luck dragging it into the view hierarchy panel on the left. I have looked into doing it programmatically as suggested by this SO answer, but do not want the segmented control to be inside the Nav Bar, but rather still in the tableView. How may I go about doing this?
Thanks!
In the XIB, you need to have an underlying UIView with the UISegcontrol, the search bar, and tableviews as subviews.
Ideally I want to use a UIToolbar but I want the icons at the bottom to appear as they would in a UITabBar meaning with icon for default and highlighted states and title beneath. I know I can drag a UIButton onto the toolbar and it will create a UIButton inside of a UIBarButtonItem, but I can't seem to manipulate the UIButton to show a title beneath? The other problem I'm having is when I set the alignment of the button in IB (in the Control section) it only changes the alignment for the default state not the highlighted state. Can anyone give me some pointers here that would be great thanks!
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Putting the UIButton inside a UIBarButtonItem is the best way I've found to do it. Just set the text for the button and it should show up fine. When manipulating the positioning, remember you're manipulating the position of the UIBarButtonItem and not the UIButton. Hope that helps!