displaying uibarbuttonitem for one of controllers connected to tab bar controller

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  1. johnmerlino, Jun 13, 2012

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    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.
     
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  2. jnoxx, Jun 13, 2012

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    #2
    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..
     
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  3. johnmerlino, Jun 13, 2012

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    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
     
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  4. jnoxx, Jun 13, 2012

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    Sorry, I don't use storyboards. I cannot help you in this case, but there will be some other forum members that can ;)
     
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  5. johnmerlino, Jun 14, 2012

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    Ill just add a button to view
     
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  6. Quboid, Jun 14, 2012
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    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:
    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 :)
     
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  7. jnoxx, Jun 15, 2012

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