How to change the text of a BarButtonItem on the NavigationBar?

Question

I am trying to create a list of items that can be edited. Something like this:

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To that end, I added a NavigationBar to the top of the view, then added 2 Bar Button Items in XCode designer. I set the identifier for the button on the left to Add, for the button on the right to Edit.

When I click the Edit, I want to change the text to Done. I've tried various ways, e.g. btnEdit.Title = "Done", but it simply doesn't take.

I've seen several blog posts recommending .SetTitle, but UIButtonBarItem doesn't have that method (at least in MonoTouch).

So, how can I change the title of the Edit button?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '12 at 22:32

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I resolved it. The key was I was setting the identifier of the Edit button to a system value (e.g. UIBarButtonSystemItemEdit) and you can't change the text of those (makes sense now). I changed the identifier back to Custom and setting .Title worked fine.

answered Sep 16 '12 at 22:32

AngryHacker

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Really helpful. Thanks :) – K.K Sep 05 '16 at 21:47
Godddd I was stuck on this for an embarrassingly long time.. Thanks!! – Sep 01 '17 at 21:02

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 06:03

Why don't you try changing the navigationItem.rightbarButtonItem property ?

1. Set up two buttons, one for edit and one for done

 UIBarButtonItem*editButton=[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Edit" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(editAction)];

 UIBarButtonItem*doneButton=[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Done" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(doneAction)];

2. And wherever necessary, in editAction preferrably change the rightBarButtonItem like:

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem=doneButton;

And if you need the editButton back

 self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem=editButton;

Upon changing `rightBarButtonItem`, for some reason, actions attached to both buttons aren't working. — Muhammad Hassan, Feb 07 '18 at 06:58

Anshuk Garg · Answer 3 · 2012-09-04T06:13:32.383

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if ([self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.title isEqualToString:@"Edit"]) 
{
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.title= @"Done";
}

hope this helps. happy coding :)

edited Sep 04 '12 at 06:13

answered Sep 04 '12 at 06:04

Anshuk Garg

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You can't use == to compare strings. You should use isEqualToString: instead. – rdelmar Sep 04 '12 at 06:08
please accept the answer if it helped, so as to guide others who have the same problem. Thanks. – Anshuk Garg Sep 06 '12 at 06:53

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 06:02

Works for me like this as UIBarButtonItem *btnEdit; is class memember in .h;

btnEdit = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Edit" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(btnEditClicked)];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = btnEdit;
//[btnEdit release];

Now selector called would be:

-(void)btnEditClicked
{
  if([btnEdit.title isEqualToString:@"Edit"])
  {
    [btnEdit setTitle:@"Done"];
  }
  else
  {
    [btnEdit setTitle:@"Edit"];
  }
}

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 22 '17 at 06:41

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Control drag from bar button to file (using assistant editor), create outlet (in this case, its called "barButton". Then, add this:

Swift 3.0:

self.barButton.title = "New title"

answered Jan 22 '17 at 06:41

Josh O'Connor

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 16 '17 at 10:56

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Re-new the button like below . .

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "title", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.plain, target: self, action: #selector(actionMethod))

answered Jul 16 '17 at 10:56

roy

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How to change the text of a BarButtonItem on the NavigationBar?

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