Question

I have an app tab based with a navigation controller,

the title in the navigation bar shows fine in the root page for the tab,

but when I push another view controller, on top, I cannot set the title for this view

this is the code I use for the root page and the pushed page,

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];    
UILabel *lava = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 44)]autorelease];
    lava.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
lava.text = @"About us"; 

lava.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter ;
lava.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
lava.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"DroidSans-Bold" size:(46)];
lava.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
lava.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(2, 3);
self.navigationItem.titleView = lava;

 }

so, what is missing to set my title on the nav bar?

thanks!

Answer 1

You could try self.navigationController.navigationItem.titleView

Or if you use iOS5 or later..

UIImage *img=[UIImage imageNamed:@"NavBarBackground.png"];    
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:img forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

NSDictionary *dict=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                    [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18.0f],UITextAttributeFont
                    ,[UIColor whiteColor],UITextAttributeTextColor
                    ,[UIColor blackColor],UITextAttributeTextShadowColor
                    ,[NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 0)],UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset
                    , nil];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:dict];

Call this once in viewDidLoad in your rootViewController and then you can just use self.title=@"foo" everywhere.