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Transparent UIToolBar

Published on July 8, 2010 by Andreas in I talk code and iPhone OS. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Sometimes it is really necessary to have a transparent UIToolBar within you iPhone app. Especially if you want to add a UIToolBar to your UINavigationBar you get some problems with overlaying backgrounds (UIBarStyleBlackOpaque did not work for a toolbar on a black opaque navigation bar).

A quick and pragmatic solution is to subclass UIToolBar and do some modifications. The following code is everything you need to get a really transparent tool bar:

@interface TransparentToolbar : UIToolbar
@end
 
@implementation TransparentToolbar
 
// Override draw rect to avoid
// background coloring
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // do nothing in here
}
 
// Set properties to make background
// translucent.
- (void) applyTranslucentBackground
{
	self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
	self.opaque = NO;
	self.translucent = YES;
}
 
// Override init.
- (id) init
{
	self = [super init];
	[self applyTranslucentBackground];
	return self;
}
 
// Override initWithFrame.
- (id) initWithFrame:(CGRect) frame
{
	self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
	[self applyTranslucentBackground];
	return self;
}
 
@end

To apply a color to the including UIBarButtonItems you can set the bar style as usual.

That’s all for today,
Andreas

Multiple UIBarButtonItems in UINavigationBar

Published on June 29, 2009 by Andreas in I talk code and iPhone OS. 4 Comments Tags: , , , .

Ever wondered how to place more than one button into a navigation bar in your app? I know it doesn’t look neat at all! The class UIBarButtonItem allows us to initialize a new instance with a custom view. This instance can be used as a kind of a toolbar and you can put as much buttons as you like in there. The toolbar again can be used for the rigthtBarButtonItem or leftBarButtonItem. Please remember:

  • Keep your interface clean and simple and
  • Be consistent with the iPhone Human Interface Guideline

For those guys, who still demand on more than one button on the left or right side of a navigation bar, the following code snippet could be useful.

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