On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>
>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 12:54, David Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 09:31, Alex Zavatone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, I have found no way to do this but in code.
>>>> Really? That's annoying, since Xcode offers what seems like such a simple
>>>> solution right in the inspector. I wonder if it's an Xcode bug, or if I'm
>>>> misunderstanding what that text field in the inspector does? If it's a
>>>> bug, I'll file it, though I'm sure many others already have.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I noticed long ago, (Xcode 4.3?) that the text I had entered in the
>>> storyboards for the name of the back button no longer was obeyed in the
>>> screens that I created. Maybe it was iOS 6, but I forget.
>>>
>>> Today, I create the a UIBarButtonItem with a title and set it to the
>>> self.navigationIdem.leftBarButtonItem using a GCD dispatch_after.
>>>
>>> I tried doing it directly, but the UI would wait for 20 seconds before it
>>> took
>>
>> Under what circumstance? I’ve never seen this reported by anyone, so this
>> sounds like its either an error in your application or an edge case that I’m
>> not aware of.
>
> To clarify, do you mean the UI taking a long time to update, or the back
> button title field in the Attributes Inspector not affecting the app? I'm
> seeing the latter problem, and haven't yet tried the in-code solution.
Well, there are two issues. When I tried this within the viewDidLoad…
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton;
The UI took 20 seconds before it updated and it was non responsive the whole
time (iOS 8).
When setting a custom name for the title of the back button in the storyboard,
I haven't seen that work since Xcode 4.2 and iOS 5.
>>
>> If you need to do this to update your bar button items, please submit a bug
>> report with a sample demonstrating the issue. This code should not be
>> necessary ever.
>>
>>> , so I used a GDC dispatch and it gets the job done.
>>>
>>> Here is is in a little method for you. You can modify it to pass in the
>>> selector so that it's more general purpose.
>>>
>>> Notice the commented out line below the closing paren. Try commenting out
>>> the dispatch and using that instead and watch as your UI takes 20 seconds
>>> to update.
>>>
>>> - (void) createBackbuttonWithTitle (NSString *)buttonTitle {
>>> UIBarButtonItem *leftButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
>>> initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(buttonTitle, nil)
>>>
>>> style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:@selector(dismiss:)];
>>> dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, .5 * NSEC_PER_MSEC),
>>> dispatch_get_main_queue(),
>>> ^{
>>> self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton;
>>> });
>>>
>>> // self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps ya out.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Alex Zavatone
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I have a navigation item inside a view, which is a couple levels inside
>>>>>> a navigation controller's stack. I can change the title of the
>>>>>> navigation item through the "title" attribute (in IB) with no trouble.
>>>>>> However, when I entered some text for the "back button" title, Xcode
>>>>>> shows that text in the Attributes Inspector, but it isn't used in my
>>>>>> app. Instead of "cancel" as I wrote, I get the standard "[previous view
>>>>>> name] back" text instead. I'm assuming I've missed a step, but I'm not
>>>>>> sure what. Thanks for any suggestions; I know this must be an easy fix,
>>>>>> but the only things I can find online are all doing this with code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Have a great day,
>>>>>> Alex Hall
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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