Add items to NavigationBar (Not using UINavigationController)

Question

I have a UIViewController with a UITableView in it, and also added a UINavigationBar. How can I add and \"edit\" button and a \"+\" button in that bar programmatically? (I h

Answer 1

Your UIViewController has a navigationItem property. You can set the left and right bar button items with self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = ... and self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = ...

Edit:

OK, I assume you have a reference to your UINavigationBar? Then I guess you'd add a single UINavigationItem to it:

UINavigationItem *item = [[UINavigationItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"A Title"];
theNavigationBar.items = [NSArray arrayWithObject:item];
[item release]; // or keep this as an instance variable

and then set that item's left and right buttons:

theNavigationBar.topItem.leftBarButtonItem = ...;
theNavigationBar.topItem.rightBarButtonItem = ...;

I haven't tried this, but I think it should work.