UIToolbar UIBarButtonItem with both image and title has very dim text

Question

My iPhone view adds some custom buttons to its toolbar. Each button has both an image and textual title, and is created like this:

UIBarButtonItem *fooButton         


        

Answer 1

Johnus's solution is pretty useful. But I've tried it and a little problem occured: the action was not sent to the bar button item, so I've modified the initializer a little :

- (id) initWithImage:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title target:(id)target action:(SEL)action {

    UIButton *barButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:13];
    barButton.titleLabel.font = font;
    barButton.titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, -1);
    barButton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 5);
    [barButton setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [barButton setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [barButton setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [barButton setTitleColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
    [barButton setTitleShadowColor:[[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.5] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [barButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"bar-button-item-background.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    barButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width + 15 + [title sizeWithFont:font].width, 30);

    if (self = [super initWithCustomView:barButton]) {
        self.target = target;
        self.action = action;
        // I've added just one line of code here
        [barButton addTarget:target
                      action:action
            forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    }

    return self;
}