I have ViewController in which is WebView (loading web site inside) and I want on start loading to show UIActivityIndicator left in navigation controller and when loading is done remove it.
I have ViewController with embed navigation controller and I've tryed to put over IB UIIndicator but with no success, it's put in content part so pls tell me how programmatically put indicator in navigation bar left side.
Thank's for help
You won't be able to put an activity indicator in the nav bar using only storyboards, unfortunately.
Create an instance variable for the activity indicator:
#implementation
{
UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator;
}
...
In your viewDidLoad method, instantiate it and add it to the navigation bar:
activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc] initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleWhite];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:activityIndicator];
The property hidesWhenStopped is YES by default, so it will hide when it's not animating automatically. All you have to do is call startAnimating and stopAnimating when you want it to be visible or hidden, respectively.
Try this:
UIBarButtonItem *button = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:activityIndicator];
self.navigationController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = button;
Related
After reading a bunch of similar questions on SO I've found out that in order to use a custom back button view I should be setting the nav controller's nav bar's nav item's left button item to a custom view, but no matter what I do I'm getting stuck with the default. I've tried setting this both inside the view controller I want to navigate back from, as well as the one I'm navigating back to, to no avail. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
- (void)loadView{
[super loadView];
UIBarButtonItem *backButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithCustomView:[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"back-btn"]]];
self.navigationController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButtonItem;
self.navigationController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}
The key thing you’re doing wrong is using the bar button item on the navigation controller instead of on your view controller. To quote Apple’s View Controller Catalog for iOS:
In a navigation interface, each content view controller in the navigation stack provides a navigation item as the value of its navigationItem property.
Emphasis mine; the content view controller is your custom view controller. Try this:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButtonItem;
You need to do this in all your view controllers that should have the custom button, so I recommend creating your own base view controller class that subclasses UIViewController and implements custom back buttons, and use this base view controller as the parent of your other view controllers.
You’re hiding the navigation bar, which probably isn’t a good idea if you want it to show a custom back button.
By replacing the standard back button, you lose its tap behaviour. Use a UIButton in the bar button item’s custom view instead of a UIImageView.
Also, it would be more conventional to put this setup code in viewDidLoad rather than loadView.
So I would do something like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIButton *backButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[backButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"back-btn"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton sizeToFit];
[backButton addTarget:self action:#selector(popNavigationController:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *backButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButtonItem;
}
- (void)popNavigationController:(id)sender
{
[[self navigationController] popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Note that if you use a custom back button, the swipe-from-the-edge-of-the-screen-to-go-back gesture will not work. See this Stack Overflow question for a couple of potential solutions, but it’s fiddly.
I do not want to create a custom navigation bar.
I am pushing a UIViewController and I want to customize how the navigation bar looks for that UIViewController
In story board, we just specify the segue and a nav bar show up on the screen. We just drag and drop UIBarItem to the left and right.
In XIB, the navigationBar simply doesn't show up.
I can add navigation Item but the one I added is ignored.
I've heard that there used to be an outlet called navigationItem but it's deprecated for reason I do not know.
I can add UINavigationBar, however that would be adding my own custom bar. I want the navBar that's provided by UINavigationController.
The appearance of the Navigation Bar in the storyboard designer is just there to illustrate how your screen will look when you load your ViewController inside a UINavigationController. It doesn't mean that you actually have a navigation controller in your app.
You need to add a UINavigationController to your storyboard (probably as the first scene), and then connect your ViewController to it (as the root view controller).
Then you should be able to set your title in the storyboard designer, and drag bar button items onto the navigation bar.
See also the answer to this question.
You can setup it in code.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.title = #"Title";
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back"style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:nil];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = "Create button" ;
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = "Create button" ;
self.navigationItem.titleView = "Create custom title view";
}
I think this is the actual way apple want this to be implemented.
Put UINavigationBar
Set outlet to the UINavigationItem
This is the catch
Override navigationItem property to return the UINavigationItem you created.
That's it.
-(UINavigationItem *) navigationItem
{
return self.navigationItem1;
}
If your navigationItem is still in the UINavigationBar, I think you will need to have a strong outlet to the UINavigation Bar too. Please correct me if I am wrong here.
I have a subclass of a UITableViewController, and I want to add a UINavBar to it. It is a very similar setup to the native contacts app, where you tap "add contact", and it presents a grouped tableview with a navbar at the top with a "cancel," and "done" option. The key is that I need it to present using a vertical transition (effectively with presentModalViewController:animated:yes), but I have tried using Interface Builder and adding it programmatically, and in both cases, the buttons do not respond, and the bar scrolls with the tableview, rather than staying at the top.
Thanks in advance,
HBhargava
It sounds like you're making the navigation bar a subview of the table view, that explains why the navigation bar scrolls with the table view.
Try this in the action method:
MyTableViewController *table = [MyTableViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyledGrouped];
UINavigationController *nav = [UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:table];
[self presentModalViewController:nav animated:YES];
Then in your table view controller's viewDidLoad:
UIBarButtonItem *doneButton = [UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:#selector(done:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = doneButton;
I'm following the CoreDataRecipes app for modaly showing the add screen when I want to add a new item. However I cannot get the bar to display at the top so I can press 'Done' or 'Cancel'.
In the xib calling the modal controller I have the + button linked to modally sliding up the controller via IB.
I have the below in my modal controller
self.navigationItem.title = #"Add";
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Cancel" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(cancel)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Save" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:#selector(save)];
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = NO;
In my viewDidLoad
The modal controller displays fine except there is no bar so I cannot leave that screen.
You need to add it before the popover is actually presented.
Where you create the modal popover, you need to create it inside a UINavigationController first.
So, do the following.
PopoverView *foo = [[PopoverView alloc] initWithNibName:#"PopoverView" bundle:nil];
// Here you pass through properties if you need too.
// ...
UINavigationController *navC = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootView:foo];
[foo release];
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:navC animated:YES];
That will give the modal view the navigation bar which you're trying to edit.
Alternatively, you could maintain your storyboard segue. In Xcode, select the view controller you are trying to transition to and embed it in a navigation controller.
Now in the viewDidLoad of that view controller, add:
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Cancel" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(cancel)];
and lastly the callback:
- (void)cancel {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
Or if you just need the look of the bar, not exactly its functionality, you could drag the Navigation Bar (UINavigationBar) or Toolbar (UIToolbar) controll from the Media Library panel onto your view and go from there.
I had a similar predicament whereby I was loading a UITableViewController in a containerView. The containerView was inside a UIViewController which was being presented in a modal fashion.
I, like you, needed the navigation bar to have a title and a Done/Cancel button.
After overflowing the stack, I finally did this -
Dragged a UIView as the first item in the Table View in the IB. This automatically took a height of 44 pts and snapped to the top. It also shifted my first section downwards.
I dragged a UIButton (Done button) inside this view. Created an IBOutlet to it and called
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
Disclaimer:
1) This fake nav-bar will scroll along with the tableview.
2) This might not be a solution for what Bot has asked, but it's an option for others who might be looking for something similar.
I am using the following function via a notification to load a right button on my UINavigationBar, and even though I can trace out the button and verify it is allocated, it does not show up...any ideas?
EDIT 4/6/2011, 2:42PM
So, something interesting...the width always reports as 0.0...
- (void)showRightBarButton:(id)sender
{
NSLog(#"Showing button");
UIBarButtonItem *button = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd
target:self
action:#selector(showPI:)];
[button setTitle:#"This Button"];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = button;
//[[self.navigationItem rightBarButtonItem] setWidth:50];
NSLog(#"Button width is %f.", self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.width);
[button release];
}
[self.view setNeedsDisplay];
You're right. That line isn't needed. As far as the rest of the code goes I don't see what's wrong with it. The only thing I've come up with so far is that self isn't the currently displayed view controller or that you're missing a navigation controller. Perhaps you've created your UINavigationBar yourself instead of using a navigation controller?
Anyway, for easier debugging I would suggest the following:
- (void)showRightBarButton:(id)sender
{
NSLog(#"Showing button");
UIBarButtonItem *button = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd
target:self
action:#selector(showPI:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = button;
[button release];
}
EDIT: The width isn't interesting. It's always 0.0 unless you specify it yourself.
The problem is that you're adding the button in the wrong place. You're not supposed to add the button to the navigation item of the navigation controller, but to the navigation item of the controller that is currently displayed by the navigation controller.
You say you're using an NSNotification to trigger the addition of the bar button item. Where are you registering for the notification? Is it possible that the notification is being received before your view is loaded?
If you're registering for notifications in -init you may want to set a flag on your view controller that you should be displaying the bar button item and then reference that flag in -viewDidLoad to optionally display it.
Or you could just register for the notification in -viewDidLoad.