Can I add an icon to the uisearch bar like this
Ya you can add the icon if you are talking about the image on left then just add a image and if you are talking about the image to the right. which i think is a search button then you can add a button and do your search code on it.
ok so what you have to do now is, i am assuming that you want to implement the search bar with icon on the toolbar. just add a UIButton and in the IB select the UIButton and go to attribute inspector and set the type to custom.
Now when you add the image to it(set the background property to the image you have selected)
By doing this you can easily resize your image.(means just resize the button, it will automatically resize your image too).
hope this will work.
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I want to add a background image for some labels in my custom view. How do I add the same? If I use UIImageView, it comes as foreground image.
Double click the specific imageview in IB, then select Layout from the top menu, and click send to back. Or do the same with the label but select bring to front :)
It's easy to control visibility in IB, just view the .xib file in list mode. Items listed farther down in the list appear on top of elements above them in the list. So to place a background image under a label, drag the UIImageView into the view, and drag it to be above the labels in the view list. Like this:
You should add that labels as subviews for that image view.
How to change color of leftBarButtonItem of UIBarButtonItem in NavigationBar?
if I am trying to set image in bar button through interfaceBuilder it shows border on image in bar button so is there any specific size for image for bar button or how to set image with-out showing border in it ?
If I am adding BarButton dynamically it doesn"t appear while running App
and if I am adding leftbarButton in xib only and connecting outlets then the leftbar button become visible but I am not able to assign customview view to it my ultimate goal is to change the color of left bar buttton
Please Help and Suggest,
Thanks
Create the bar buttom item with a custom view using -[UIBarButtonItem initWithCustomView:]. That way, you have all the control you want over the appearance.
I think you can use:
- (id)initWithImage:(UIImage *)image style:(UIBarButtonItemStyle)style target:(id)target action:(SEL)action
You can set custom image for your bar button.
If it's just the colour you want to change, add the button to the bar and then set the tint colour of the bar (see docs on UINavigationBar or UIToolBar). This of course changes the bar colour as well as the button however, but it's good practice (UI consistency wise) to use the same colour for UIBarButtonItems and their bars especially if you're using out-of-the-box buttons.
I've seen other apps are using a round icon for closing a view. The only similar icon I found is UIBarButtonSystemItemStop. But this presents only a rotated cross with a border (as always with buttons) around it.
I rather would like have something like a UIButtonTypeInfoLight. If this button is used, no border is visible. Also the icon is a round grey icon with a symbol (here i symbol) in it. Are there further icons in this style available? Neither UIBarButtonSystemItem nor UIButtonType is offering that.
I have also seen a thunderbolt icon in the style of UIButtonTypeInfoLight. Are these icons self made? If yes, how are they included so that no border is visible?
These buttons are custom.
You can embed any custom view into bar using [UIBarButtonItem initWithCustomView:].
You can use UIButton with UIButtonTypeCustom type so that you have button with no border. Also set showsTouchWhenHighlighted to YES so that button glows like info button.
I have a UIToolbar where I have dragged a UIButton. When I set the button properties to Custom, and assign an image (or background image) the graphics don't appear. However, when I give it a custom text, the text will appear. Why is it that the images don't appear?
Are you sure the image is present in your bundle/project?
Are you setting the button's image for UIControlStateNormal?
I have created a flexible navigation bar in my app that will show custom buttons on the left, right, and in the middle. So far I have got working:
Right/Left/Middle - Custom Image and/or Text
Right/Left - Normal looking button with custom Image in it
Right/Left - Normal looking button with custom Text in it
By 'normal looking' I mean the default UIBarButtonItemStyle- just a nice shiny button.
My question is, how can I achieve the same look in the MIDDLE of the nav bar? I can do custom/text images by just creating a custom UIButton, and on the right / left I create a UIBarButtonItem from it, but in the middle I just add the UIButton view as a subview of the navbar.
I can't add a UIBarButtonItem to the navbar as a subview, and any UIButton I create doesn't look like a UIBarButtonItem.
The only workaround I can think of is to use a stretchable custom image that I steal from a screenshot. I'd rather avoid doing it this way. Am I missing something?
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The open source library Three20 will allow you to create UIButtons that look like UIBarButtonItems. Then you can add them to the bar view either by placing manually as a subview or by setting the title view.
I never understood why they didn't make UIBarButtonItems derive from UIViews (or even better, UIButtons) so they could be used elsewhere.
Sounds like you're on the right track, but need better artwork :-) You can get a large number of iPhone UI components in a Photoshop .PSD file from here. They have pre-rendered bar buttons which you can use as a base for a standard UIButton image. If you have Photoshop (or a decent drawing program) you can stretch the buttons from the middle to fit your size without getting the corners distorted. Just add the label and you should be good to go.
Put a flexible region on the left and right, they will offset each other causing anything between them to be centered