My iPhone view adds some custom buttons to its toolbar. Each button has both an image and textual title, and is created like this:
UIBarButtonItem *fooButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"foo.png"] style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(fooButtonPressed:)];
fooButton.title=@"Foo";
The title's text displays very dim; it looks like it has an alpha of about 0.5. If I use the default UIToolBar barStyle, I can't read the text at all. When using UIBarStyleBlack I can read the text but it still looks very dim.
I also tried initWithTitle, and then set the image property; the results are identical.
Is there a way to brighten up the text? I am hoping for a look similar to a UITabBar whose items have both an image and title.
Thanks for the help!
I was trying to use the UIBarButtonItem to display both an image and a button, but I'm pretty sure it's locked down to display one or the other. Using the basic idea from this thread I came up with a solution using a UIButton and a background image. The biggest flaw of what I've done is that when the title text varies in size a lot, the background image stretches causing the rounded corners to look a little off.
CustomBarButtonItem.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface CustomBarButtonItem : UIBarButtonItem {}
- (id) initWithImage:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title target:(id)target action:(SEL)action;
@end
@interface UIBarButtonItem (CustomBarButtonItem)
+ (UIBarButtonItem *) barButtonItemWithImage:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title target:(id)target action:(SEL)action;
@end
CustomBarButtonItem.m
#import "CustomBarButtonItem.h"
@implementation CustomBarButtonItem
- (id) initWithImage:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title target:(id)target action:(SEL)action {
UIButton *barButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:13];
barButton.titleLabel.font = font;
barButton.titleLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, -1);
barButton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 5);
[barButton setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[barButton setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[barButton setTitleColor:[UIColor whiteColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[barButton setTitleColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[barButton setTitleShadowColor:[[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.5] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[barButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"bar-button-item-background.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
barButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width + 15 + [title sizeWithFont:font].width, 30);
if (self = [super initWithCustomView:barButton]) {
self.target = target;
self.action = action;
}
return self;
}
@end
@implementation UIBarButtonItem (CustomBarButtonItem)
+ (UIBarButtonItem *) barButtonItemWithImage:(UIImage *)image title:(NSString *)title target:(id)target action:(SEL)action {
return [[[CustomBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:image title:title target:target action:action] autorelease];
}
@end
Sample usage:
UIBarButtonItem *customButtonItem = [UIBarButtonItem barButtonItemWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"calendar.png"] title:@"Add to calendar" target:self action:@selector(addToCalendar)];
My background image for the button is:
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