Question

I have customized the UIBarButtonItem like this:

UIButton *loginBtn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
loginBtn.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 46.0, 34.0);
[loginBtn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"loginBtn.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[loginBtn addTarget:self action:@selector(loginPressed:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[loginBtn setTitle:@"Login" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

UIBarButtonItem *finishedButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:loginBtn];

[finishedButton setStyle:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = finishedButton;

But now i can not see the title with “Login”, it’s blank on the button, it seems that the “setTitle:” did not work.
Could anybody tell me why? Thx!

Answer 1

setTitle: did work, you just haven’t read the documentation carefully enough. Use setBackgroundImage: instead of setImage: as the latter overrides setTitle:, but the former doesn’t (and that’s what you want). So instead of

[loginBtn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"loginBtn.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

write

[loginBtn setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"loginBtn.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
            ^
            +- background!

and you should be fine to go.