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I have set up a view controller in Storyboard which is embedded in a navigation controller. In this nav controller I have checked Shows Navigation Bar and Shows Toolbar and enabled a navigation bar and toolbar in Top Bar and Bottom Bar respectively in Simulated Metrics. I then "Show e.g. Push" segue from the view controller to another view controller. On both view controllers I've set up Simulated Metrics the same way, so both the navigation bar and toolbar are visible on all three controllers.
The problem is, I can add bar button items to the first view controller to both the navigation bar and the toolbar, but I cannot add a bar button item to the navigation bar on the second view controller. When I drop a button on the navigation bar, it's added to the toolbar instead. And I cannot double click the nav bar to add a title. In the outline I see there is no navigation item on the second view controller, but it is there in the first view controller.
I can probably add buttons to the navigation bar programmatically, but I want to do this visually in Storyboard. My question is, what is wrong with this setup, or is this a bug with Xcode?
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Step 1: Embed root view controller inside a navigation controller. In your storyboard, select the initial view controller in your hierarchy. With this view controller selected, choose the menu item Editor -> Embed In -> Navigation Controller .
In your Storyboard, you can embed a ViewController in a Navigation Controller by selecting the View Controller and then picking from the menu at the top Editor->Embed In->Navigation Controller . From another view controller, you control drag to this Navigation controller to set up the modal segue.
A UINavigationController does a lot of this tedious work for you. As mentioned, it contains a stack of UIViewControllers. It will create a navigation bar at the top that will allow you to easily go back up the hierarchy of view controllers.
Overview. A navigation controller is a container view that can manage the navigation of hierarchical contents. The navigation controller manages the current displaying screen using the navigation stack. Navigation stack can have “n” numbers of view controllers.
For XCode 6, the UINavigationItem for the 2nd view controller onwards is not added automatically on the View Controller Object inside the storyboard. You will have to drag the UINavigationItem onto the Navigation Bar for that view Controller Object before adding UIBarButtonItem on top of it.
I am not sure why it is designed that way. I only discovered about this a few weeks ago.
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