Add borderless search buttons in UINavigationbar - iphone

Good morning, good evening !
I feel like my question is a dumb easy to solve question, but it looks like Google can't help me.
I want to add on my UINavigationBar a search button, but I want it borderless !
When I set it through Xcode I have this awful kind of button :
And I want this kind of button (from the Dropbox app) :
That would be nice if someone is able to explain me the trick to achieve this !
Thank you.

I think you have a bar button item. I have played around with it. And the Bar Buttom Item has to have a Tint of Clear Color. The actual Button a Type of Custom. Then it comes out more the way you want it (I think).
In my IB it looks like this:
It is the following
With properties like this:
And like this:
Hope it helps.

If you use Interface Builder set the button type to custom and use your image as background for the button.

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alt text http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1524/picture2usx.png
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