How to set target and action for UIBarButtonItem at runtime

Question

Tried this but only works for UIButton:

[btn setTarget:self action:@selector(btnClicked:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

Answer 1

@wp42 It does work today.

A nifty way of doing this in objective-C is adding a category to UIBarButtonItem class:

.h file

#import 

@interface UIBarButtonItem (addons)

-(void)addTarget:(id)target andAction:(SEL)action;

@end

.m file

#import "UIBarButtonItem+addons.h"

@implementation UIBarButtonItem (addons)

-(void)addTarget:(id)target andAction:(SEL)action{
   [self setTarget:target];
   [self setAction:action];
}

@end

In practice:

[myBtn addTarget:self andAction:@selector(myFunction:)];