Change autoresizingMask on programmatically created navigation bar - objective-c

Question

So I have a view-based app in which I need one page with a tableview and I wanted a navigation bar above it to go back. I added this programmatically with:
-(IBAction)switchToTableView; {
tableView *table = [[tableView alloc] initWithNibName:#"tableView" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navControl = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController: table];
table.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[table release];
[self presentModalViewController: navControl animated:YES];
[navControl release];
}
Then in the viewDidLoad of the tableview class I implemented:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
self.tableView.rowHeight = 70.f;
UIBarButtonItem *back = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Back"
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone
target:self
action:#selector(switchToHome)];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = back;
UIBarButtonItem *map = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Map"
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone
target:self
action:#selector(switchBacktoFindArt)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = map;
[map release];
[super viewDidLoad];
}
to add the needed buttons. Now, all of this worked great, but now that I'm going through my app and allowing for orientation changes, I'm having trouble with this one since I can't change the autoresizingMask in IB. The whole tableview page resizes nicely except the navigation bar becomes very skinny top-to-bottom wise. I'd like it to stay the same height. How do I go about setting the appropriate Masks or even accessing the navigation bar outside of IB?

Answer 1

I suppose you can play with things like this to disable height changes:
navControl.navigationBar.autoresizingMask ^= UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight
But a UINavigationController might really get wonky if you play around with its internals like that. I'm surprised that the nav's bar isn't already resizing to an appropriately pleasing height, like it's supposed to do by default. (It feels like something else might be wrong elsewhere in your code, but I'd have to see more to find out).