Creating Edit and Save/Done buttons in navigation bar programmatically

commentsNo comments    userTilaye Yismaw

January 16th, 2010 

This took annoyingly long time to figure out. There isn’t much info on the web about it surprisingly. Table view comes with Edit/Done buttons automatically and most info out there is about table views. I had my own view with text field controls and such. I wanted to have an Edit button. When pressed, it changes to Save with blue background and displays edit controls that are normally not there. Here goes,

- (void)viewDidLoad {

  [super viewDidLoad];

  mBarButtonItemEdit = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Edit" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(editButtonPressed)];

  mBarbuttonitemSave = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Save" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:@selector(editButtonPressed)];

  self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = mBarButtonItemEdit;
}

I used a boolean inside the function editButtonPressed to know the state (Edit or Save state). Nice and easy.

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