How to add UIButtons to navigationbar ,the class also consists UITabbarController - iphone

Question

I am new at iOS Development.I Have UINavigationController as rootviewcontroller for UIWindow.In the subclass i added UITabbarController programatically.I given default Tabbarcontroller selection as first controller. Here i am trying to add 3 buttons to the navigationbar .
Can any send me the corrent code.
Thanks In advance

Answer 1

To add more than one button on the left or the right side you have to call one of the following methods:
- (void)setRightBarButtonItems:(NSArray *)items animated:(BOOL)animated
- (void)setLeftBarButtonItems:(NSArray *)items animated:(BOOL)animated
The array items contains instances of the UIBarButtonItem class. You can instantiate them like this
UIBarButtonItem *FirstButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Title"
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered
target:self
action:#selector(buttonTapped:)];
Then you have to implement the selector buttonTapped: which is called when the button has been tapped.
-(void)buttonTapped:(UIBarButtonItem *)button
{
// do the things that should happen when the button is pressed
}
If you don't want to get them on the left or right side it is also possible to create a UIView by yourself containing the buttons and set the view to be the titleView of the UINavigationItem. This effect is similar to the buttons in the Facebook App
[self.navigationItem setTitleView:yourView];

Answer 2

Here is simple code for add UIButton on UINavigationBar
In Following code you can add Button With FlexibleSpace
NSMutableArray *barItems = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
UIBarButtonItem *flexSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:self action:nil];
[barItems addObject:flexSpace];
[flexSpace release];
UIBarButtonItem *btnFirst = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"First" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(FirstTapped:)];
[barItems addObject: btnFirst];
UIBarButtonItem *btnSecond = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Second" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(SecondTapped:)];
[barItems addObject:btnSecond];
UIBarButtonItem *btnThird = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Third" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:#selector(ThirdTapped:)];
[barItems addObject: btnThird];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = barItems;
Button Related Methods
-(void) FirstTapped:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender{
//perform your action
}
-(void) SecondTapped:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender{
//perform your action
}
-(void) ThirdTapped:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender{
//perform your action
}
NOTE : self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems Works only in iOS 5 or Latter.

Answer 3

UIButton *customButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
// here is custom button setup //
UIBarButtonItem *item = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:customButton];
[self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:item animated:YES];