Make a UIBarButtonItem disappear using swift IOS

Question

I have an IBOutlet that I have linked to from the storyboard

@IBOutlet var creeLigueBouton: UIBarButtonItem!

and I want to make it disappea

Answer 1

Use the property enabled and tintColor

    let barButtonItem:UIBarButtonItem? = nil

    if isHidden{
        barButtonItem?.enabled      = false
        barButtonItem?.tintColor    = UIColor.clearColor()
    }else{
        barButtonItem?.enabled      = true
        barButtonItem?.tintColor    = nil
    }

Answer 2

I have more that 2 menuitems and remove/add menuitem is an overhead. This code snippet worked for me (Using Swift3).

func showMenuItem(){

    menuItemQuit.customView?.isHidden = false
    menuItemQuit.plainView.isHidden = false
}

func hideMenuItem(){

    menuItemQuit.customView?.isHidden = true
    menuItemQuit.plainView.isHidden = true
}

Answer 3

Do you really want to hide/show creeLigueBouton? It is instead much easier to enable/disable your UIBarButtonItems. You would do this with a few lines:

if(condition == true) {
    creeLigueBouton.enabled = false
} else {
    creeLigueBouton.enabled = true
}

This code can even be rewritten in a shorter way:

creeLigueBouton.enabled = !creeLigueBouton.enabled

Let's see it in a UIViewController subclass:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var creeLigueBouton: UIBarButtonItem!

    @IBAction func hide(sender: AnyObject) {
        creeLigueBouton.enabled = !creeLigueBouton.enabled
    }

}

---

If you really want to show/hide creeLigueBouton, you can use the following code:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    var condition: Bool = true
    var creeLigueBouton: UIBarButtonItem! //Don't create an IBOutlet

    @IBAction func hide(sender: AnyObject) {
        if(condition == true) {
            navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = []
            condition = false
        } else {
            navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = [creeLigueBouton]
            condition = true
        }
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        creeLigueBouton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Creer", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: self, action: "creerButtonMethod")
        navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = [creeLigueBouton]
    }

    func creerButtonMethod() {
        print("Bonjour")
    }

}

Answer 4

// Nice answer haiLong, I think as an extension this is more convenient.

extension UIBarButtonItem {
    var isHidden: Bool {
        get {
            return !isEnabled && tintColor == .clear
        }
        set {
            tintColor = newValue ? .clear : nil
            isEnabled = !newValue
        }
    }
}

EDIT: Removed forced unwrapping and fixed enabled value.

Answer 5

It is quite late to reply but looking for an answer for my problem I found this topic. The marked answer did not help me, but I managed to solve my problem thanks to @haiLong's answer. My solution works for all types of bar buttons... I think. Add this to your ViewController and use as needed.

var tintColorsOfBarButtons = [UIBarButtonItem: UIColor]()

    func hideUIBarButtonItem(button: UIBarButtonItem) {
        if button.tintColor != UIColor.clear {
            tintColorsOfBarButtons[button] = button.tintColor
            button.tintColor = UIColor.clear
            button.isEnabled = false
        }
    }

    func showUIBarButtonItem(button: UIBarButtonItem) {
        if tintColorsOfBarButtons[button] != nil {
            button.tintColor = tintColorsOfBarButtons[button]
        }
        button.isEnabled = true
    }

I hope it saves some time to other developers :)

Answer 6

Try this. (Make newbackbutton global variable)

override func viewDidLoad() {

    let newBackButton = UIBarButtonItem()

     newBackButton.title = " << Return to Gallery"
    newBackButton.style  = UIBarButtonItemStyle.Done
    newBackButton.target = self
    newBackButton.action = "backtoScoutDetail:"
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = newBackButton

}

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {

    newBackButton.title = ""
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = newBackButton        

     }