UISegmentedControl in the Navigation Bar with the Back button http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15383014/uisegmentedcontrol-in-the-navigation-bar-with-the-back-button

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UISegmentedControl in the Navigation Bar with the Back button

I'm adding a UISegmentedControl to the Navigation bar programatically where the titleViewshould be. But as Apple docs have mentioned under titleView, This property is ignored if leftBarButtonItem is not nil. But I want to have the back button as well. Like they have illustrated in their own images! Below is the code I add the UISegmentedControl. self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil; UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Filter_Personnal", @"Filter_Department", @"Filter_Company", nil]; [statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar]; self.navigationItem.titleView = statFilter; Is there another way to add a UISegmentedControl along with the Back button as well? Thank you. ios objective-c uinavigationcontroller uinavigationbar uisegmentedcontrol share|improve this question asked Mar 13 at 10:42 Isuru 1,04811031

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You can create a UIBarButtonItem with a custom view which could potentially be yourUISegmentedControl. Something along the lines of the following may work. //create segmented control with items UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"One", @"Two", nil]]; //create bar button item with segmented control as custom view UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:segmentedControl]; //add segmented control bar button item to navigation bar [[[self navigationController] navigationItem] setRightBarButtonItem:barButtonItem]; I haven't tested this but it should be along the right lines of what you need. share|improve this answer answered Mar 13 at 10:48 CaptainRedmuff 1,316419

Hi thanks for the response. In the meantime I was waiting, I slapped together a small program to test it out. I put 2 View Controllers, a button in the first one to segue to the other one. And in the ViewDidLoad method of the second View Controller, I created the UISegmentedControl using the code I've posted in my question andvoila! It works! I don't know why Apple has said it won't work. :S – Isuru Mar 13 at 11:10

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Try this Remove this line --- > self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil; Add this instead UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Filter_Personnal", @"Filter_Department", @"Filter_Company", nil]]; [statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar]; [statFilter sizeToFit]; self.navigationItem.titleView = statFilter; Only change is I have added this line : [statFilter sizeToFit]; Hope this Helps !!!