prevent UIBarButtonItem animation in UINavigationController - iphone

I am using a nice custom transition using a category following what I read here:
Changing the UINavigationController animation style
This is great, BUT when I hit the back button the back button animates sliding and fading to the right.
I do not want it to animate at all. I see the property popNavigationItemAnimated but cannot seem to get this to work.
Anyone have a way to accomplish this?

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Adding a UIToolBar above a UITabBar - Logic Issue

I need to know the logic of how to write this code.
This is my problem.
When a user taps a button, I need to show a UIToolBar (with a few buttons on it) on the view. This toolBar should appear ONLY above the UITabBarcontroller.
The view is a UIScrollView, so if I hardcode the position of the UIToolBar, it will be displayed in the wrong position each time the user scrolls (Hope you understand what I am saying).
I did the following. I hard coded the position of the UIToolBar (so it will place above the tab bar), and added it to the Window. This sounds like a good solution as the windows size will not change at all instance.
But, I don't want to add this to a Window. So is there any other way I could solve this problem?
I would add an additional UIView to the window so that it acts as a container for both the UIScrollView and UIToolbar. Then resize the scrollview so that it falls short of the toolbar.
You should be thinking of this as layers of views

iPhone Fall Down button (Animation)

Is it possible do something like this ?
When I click on the button I need the following animation: button to set some alpha filter and starts to fall down as indicated by the arrow, it will disappear on tab.
Can you tell me how to do this ? Thanks a lot ...
Here is image url: http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/8149/screenqx.jpg
It's definitely possible, but there are some issues you have to overcome. One is that UIBarButtonItem isn't a UIView. One way is to loop through the subviews of the UIToolbar or UINavigationBar. Another way is to figure out the position of the button. Another is to get the view using private api if you're not submitting to the AppStore.
Once you have the view, you can move it to the superview of the UIToolbar or UINavigationBar or you can create a view on top of that (and hide the real UIBarButtonItem since you're done with that). The latter is more difficult because mimicking the look of the default bordered UIBarButtonItem isn't easy.
Now you need to get the center of the UITabBarItem somehow. You can either use private api or you can loop through the subviews.
Create a CGPath using Quartz functions or using UIBezierPath. The start point will be the center of the button and the end point will be the center of the UITabBarItem.
Create a CAKeyFrameAnimation and attach said CGPath.
Create a CABasicAnimation to animate the opacity.
Add both to a CAAnimationGroup.
Attach the animation group to your button view's CALayer.
Make sure to also set the position and the alpha in order to prevent the view from jumping back to its original position after the animation.
Once you attach the animation group, the animation should start, so make sure you're doing all of this in the button's selector method.
You can't really move it from view to view, as your views could clip and then you'd get frames with only a partial image. Probably the best thing to do is to create a view on the fly which covers the whole screen, copy the button image into the view at the original point, remove the button from the original view, then animate that image to where you want it to go, then add the button to the final destination.

UIPopoverController in application window

I am creating a UIPopoverController from the application delegate and I want to center it on the window, how ca I do that?
You can specify the rectangle that it is anchored to when you display it. Just specify an rectangle and direction that guarantees it will be displayed in the position you want.
It does sound like you may be doing something that would be best done by presenting a custom UIView as a new subview instead of using a popover. The popover will always have the little arrow coming off the side.

UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal Vertically?

Is it possible to hack the UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal to be vertical instead of horizontal?
I would normally use a CATransition to do this, but that method requires inserting the view of one UIViewController into the other one, which results in it not being released properly.
So, is it possible without adding one as a subview of another?
You might try using the accepted answer from: UIView vertical flip animation and presenting the modal view half way through the animation. This will require some modification of that code, but it should be possible to do.

How can I do this iPhone (segmentedcontrol?) layout?

Please look at this screenshot:
When you tap in another segmentedcontrol, it switches smoothly (try it if you can).
First of all, is it a segmentedcontrol?
Second, how can I add this smooth effect?
Thanks guys.
I just tried. It does not seem to be a segment view.
Maybe 3 dark buttons(or view or views) and a layer that moves and overlay the current selected button.
Everything is well crafted so it looks great ;)
I think I could do that with a big UIImageView (instead of the three buttons) with an UITapGestureRecognizer to get the touch and a CALayer for the selected button