Question

I have a UIView that contains your typical UITableView with a UISearchBar. It seems though the Interface Builder will not let me alter the layout as I have the need to add a button to the right of the search bar.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

First you need to create a hook for your UIToolbar, create a property with an IBOutlet directive.

eg:

@property(nonatomic,retain) IBOutlet UIToolbar * tableToolbar;//dont forget to synthesize

attach it to the toolbar that holds the UISearchBar, then you access the toolbar in code when your viewDidLoad copy the UIToolbar.items into an array, insert your button object into the array at any index you want then assign the array back to the UIToolbar.items with this function:

[toolbar setItems:itemArray];