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John
John

Reputation: 1717

Spacing between leftbarbuttonitems

Trying to add 2 buttons on the left, but having some issues with the spacing. Any solutions? I tried negative spacing but it doesn't work. It is just 2 normal buttons initiated with:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = @[self.menuButton, self.scoreLabel];

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Thanks for the help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2181

Answers (2)

Captain Buck
Captain Buck

Reputation: 689

Create a UIBarButtonItem, for example

UIBarButtonItem *spacer = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFixedSpace target:nil action:nil];

set the width of spacer as

spacer.width = -15.0f;

Add this spacer between your self.menuButton and self.scoreLabel objects as shown below, 

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = @[self.menuButton ,spacer , self.scoreLabel];

Upvotes: 2

Utsav Parikh
Utsav Parikh

Reputation: 1206

Check your score button width by giving it a background color or the button title may be right aligned. Otherwise negative spacing works well. 

//Create a  bar button with negative spacing 
UIBarButtonItem *negativeSpacer = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFixedSpace target:nil action:nil];
negativeSpacer.width = -15.0f;

//Bar Button 1
UIImage *sideImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"icon1"];
UIButton *btnSideMenu = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[btnSideMenu setImage:sideImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnSideMenu setImage:sideImage forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[btnSideMenu setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, sideImage.size.width, sideImage.size.height)];
[btnSideMenu addTarget:self action:@selector(btnLeftMenuClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *sideMenuItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:btnSideMenu];

//Bar Button 2
UIImage *sideImage1 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"icon2"];
UIButton *btnSideMenu1 = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[btnSideMenu1 setImage:sideImage1 forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnSideMenu1 setImage:sideImage1 forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[btnSideMenu1 setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, sideImage1.size.width, sideImage1.size.height)];
[btnSideMenu1 addTarget:self action:@selector(btnLeftMenuClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *sideMenuItem1 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:btnSideMenu1];

//Add all the bar buttons in the leftBarButtonItems Array
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:sideMenuItem1, negativeSpacer, sideMenuItem, nil];

Upvotes: 1

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