uinavigationitem

Hey all. I'm still pretty new to iPhone development, and I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to change the title of my Navigation Bar. On another question on this site somebody recommended using : viewController.title = @"title text"; but that isn't working for me...Do I need to add a UINavigationController to accomplish this? Or maybe just an outlet from my UIViewController subclass? If it helps, I defined the navigation bar in IB and I'm trying to set its title in my UIViewController subclass. This is another one of those simple things that gives me a headache. Putting self.title =

The following code works up through iOS 6: UIButton *myButton = nil; myButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; myButton.bounds = CGRectMake(0,0,44,30); // setup myButton's images, etc. UIBarButtonItem *item = nil; item = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:customButton]; This is how the button is supposed to be aligned: However, on iOS 7, the button appears to be offset from the right or left by too many pixels: How can I get my custom bar button items to be aligned properly? malex Works until iOS11! You can use negative flexible spaces and rightBarButtonItems property

I have a UIViewController and I'm navigating from my first view controller to second view controller and I want to change the name of the button shown on the navigationcontroller for going back .... SecondViewController *secondController = [[SecondViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:NULL]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:secondController animated:YES]; now in the second viewcontroller I want change the name of the button in the navigationController . In viewWillAppear write this self.navigationItem.title = @"List View"; And in ViewWilldisapper write this self

By default the back button uses as a text on it a title of a viewcontroller. Can I change text on the back button without changing a title of a view controller? I need this because I have a view controller which title is too long to display and in this case I would like to display just "Back" as a caption for back button. I tried the following which didn't work: self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.title = @"Back"; Thanks. Marc W Try self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease]; I

Is there a straightforward way of overriding the titleView of the current navigation bar item in a navigation bar within a navigation controller? I've tried creating a new UIView and replacing the titleView property of topView with my own UIVIew with no success. Basically, I want a multi-line title for the navigation bar title. Any suggestions? petert Set the titleView property of the UINavigationItem . For example, in the view controller's viewDidLoad method you could do something like: UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 44)]; label.backgroundColor =