Question

I want to add a global right bar button in the global AppDelegate so all my view controllers will have this button automatically.

I added in the AppDelegate

navigator.window.rootViewController.navigationController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem     
= [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Test", @"") 
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(showTest)] autorelease]; 

Of course the above code is not working..any problem with the code above?

Answer 1

Well, I’m not sure you can do it in your way, because UINavigatorController always uses the buttons from the view controller that is currently displayed, and not from the top / root controller.

What you can do is to subclass TTViewController with a new view controller and set your left bar button item.

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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@implementation BaseViewController


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#pragma mark -
#pragma mark UIViewController



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- (void)viewDidLoad {
  [super viewDidLoad];


  self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Test", @"") 
                                                                            style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(showTest)] autorelease];
}

and then you should extend all your view controllers from this base controller, which contains the right navigation bar item