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Reputation: 3275

UISearchDisplayController and setDisplaysSearchBarInNavigationBar

I'm struggling with the UISearchDisplayController and hope someone out there can help me out.

So basically I've got a UINavigationBar which has a "Search"-Button in it. When someone taps "Search" the UISearchDisplayController should get active and the UISearchBar should appear inside the UINavigationBar. Next to the SearchBar I've implemented a "Cancel"-Button which deactivates the SearchDisplayController and resets the UINavigationBar back to it's standard with the "Search"-Button.

Default UINavigationBar

My first problem is the gap between my SearchBar and the results-table or the gray overlay while the SearchDisplayController is active.

SearchBar activated

The second problem is that I can't reset my rightBarButtonItem to the default icon (magnifying-glass) after tapping cancel. It's nothing happening even when I try to set [self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:nil]; it just remains with the "Cancel" button.

after clicking Cancel

Here is my implementation: (The UI elements are added through my storyboard)

- (IBAction)btnSearchClicked:(id)sender {
[self.navigationController.navigationBar addSubview:self.searchController.searchBar];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCancel target:self action:@selector(cancelEditing)];

[self.searchController.searchBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 250, 44)];
[self.searchController setDisplaysSearchBarInNavigationBar:YES];
[self.searchController setActive:YES animated:YES];
[self.searchController.searchBar becomeFirstResponder];
}

-(void)cancelEditing
{
[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:nil];
[self.searchController setActive:NO animated:YES];
[self.searchController.searchBar removeFromSuperview];
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 890

Answers (1)

dibi
dibi

Reputation: 3275

OK I came up with a solution for both problems.

The gap was occurring because of [self.searchController setDisplaysSearchBarInNavigationBar:YES]; which expected the NavigationBar to be translucent, so I've worked around by just enabling translucency on btnSearchClicked and deactivating it on cancel.

The problem with the button was resolved by deactivating setDisplaysSearchBarInNavigationBar in cancelEditing before accessing the setRightBarButtonItem property. Maybe that the setDisplaysSearchBarInNavigationBar-Option creates an new NavigationBar which doesn't respond to self.navigationItem.

Upvotes: 1

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