How can I dynamically hide a button from a view?

Question

I would like to dynamically hide a button in one of my views depending on a certain condition.

I tried adding some code to the view controller's -viewWillAppear method, to make the button hidden before displaying the actual view, but I still don't know how to do that.

I have a reference to the button through an IBOutlet, but I'm not sure how to move forward from here. For reference, this is a UIBarButtonItem instance.

Answer 1

If you're trying to hide a UIBarButtonItem, you'll actually have to modify the contents of the parent bar. If it's a UIToolBar, you'll need to set the bar's items array to an array that doesn't include your item.

NSMutableArray     *items = [[myToolbar.items mutableCopy] autorelease]; [items removeObject: myButton]; myToolbar.items = items;