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testing
testing

Reputation: 20289

Custom text in navigation bar

I want to set a text on the position of leftBarButtonItem/rightBarButtonItem in the UINavigationBar. You have to use UIBarButtonItem, but you can put different UIView objects into it. First I tried to use a label, but that doesn't work. The code is in C#, but you should get the idea:

UILabel textLabel = new UILabel();
textLabel.Text = "My custom text which should be displayed in navigation bar";
UIBarButtonItem customBarButtonItem = new UIBarButtonItem (textLabel);
NavigationItem.RightBarButtonItem = customBarButtonItem;

The label is not shown. If I use a button it seems to work (except the styling has to be adapted).

UIBarButtonItem customBarButtonItem = new UIBarButtonItem ("My custom text which should be displayed in navigation bar", UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain,null);
NavigationItem.RightBarButtonItem = customBarButtonItem;

Why isn't it possible to use a UILabel? What is the correct way of showing a text like a header in a UIBarButtonItem?

Edit:

My current findings are:

Either set the title of UIBarButtonItem or set the frame of UILabel (thanks to Anbu.Karthik for this).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 163

Answers (3)

Anbu.Karthik
Anbu.Karthik

Reputation: 82766

change 

UILabel testLabel = new UILabel();
testLabel.frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 21);

testLabel.Text = "yuhu";
UIBarButtonItem test = new UIBarButtonItem (testLabel.text);

Upvotes: 1

Mukesh
Mukesh

Reputation: 3690

Change this line of code UIBarButtonItem test = new UIBarButtonItem (testLabel);

UILabel testLabel = new UILabel();
testLabel.Text = "yuhu";
 testLabel.frame=CGRectMake(x, y, width, height);
//change this line

UIBarButtonItem *barBtn = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:testLabel];
NavigationItem.RightBarButtonItem = test;

Upvotes: 1

Varun Naharia
Varun Naharia

Reputation: 5388

Use this

UIImage *buttonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"back.png"];
 UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
 [button setImage:buttonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
 button.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, buttonImage.size.width, buttonImage.size.height);
 [button addTarget:self action:@selector(back) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

 UIBarButtonItem *customBarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];
 self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = customBarItem;

Upvotes: 0

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