iOS displaying uibarbuttonitem for one of controllers connected to tab bar controller

[johnmerlino]

Hey all,

I have a tab bar controller and it rotates between for view controllers. Problem is for one of controllers, I want to display a uibarbuttonitem. But right now the button wont display, as all four controllers inherit the uinavigation item of the tab bar controller.

 

[jnoxx]

That is some of the vaguest question I have ever seen 🙂
Try to post some code, what you did, what you try to do, what exactly goes wrong..

 

[johnmerlino]

That is some of the vaguest question I have ever seen 🙂
Try to post some code, what you did, what you try to do, what exactly goes wrong..

I'm using xcode storyboard 4.3. THe problem is I have a ui tab bar controller, with 4 tabs. I have a list view and the list view segues to the tab bar controller. Now automatically a back button displays on the ui navigation item of the tab bar controller. The problem is I tried adding a bar button item to one of the four controllers that has a relationship to the tab bar controller. I can visually see it added on the storyboard, but when I compile and run simulator, the bar button item is not there. It just has the back button to the list page for all four controllers that have a relationship to the tab bar controller.

Here's an image of what's happening:

http://i45.tinypic.com/2i13829.jpg

Notice that the storyboard shows the bar button item while the simular does not.

thanks for response

 

[jnoxx]

Sorry, I don't use storyboards. I cannot help you in this case, but there will be some other forum members that can 😉

 

[johnmerlino]

Sorry, I don't use storyboards. I cannot help you in this case, but there will be some other forum members that can 😉

Ill just add a button to view

 

[Quboid]

I'm going to guess that the Navigation bar was not one that dragged in there but one that you automatically got from linking your view to a navigation controller. You can add the button using this code:

 UIBarButtonItem *yourButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"yourButtonName", "something") style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:@selector(yourActionMethod)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = yourButton;

Throw this into your viewDidLoad delegate.

Apples documentation is one of the best I've ever seen, you might want to give it a whirl 🙂

 

[jnoxx]

I'm going to guess that the Navigation bar was not one that dragged in there but one that you automatically got from linking your view to a navigation controller. You can add the button using this code:

 UIBarButtonItem *yourButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"yourButtonName", "something") style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:@selector(yourActionMethod)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = yourButton;

Throw this into your viewDidLoad delegate.

Apples documentation is one of the best I've ever seen, you might want to give it a whirl 🙂

That is for ARC project, don't forget to do [yourButton release]; after assigning if you are in a non ARC project.