Storyboard: How to set a UIToolbar at the bottom of a UITableViewController controlled by a UINavigationViewController

Question

I'm new to the Cocoa topic. I build with the Storyboard a small application which runs just fine. I'm pushing UITableViewController to another one, controlled by the UINavigationViewController. Now I need a UIToolbar with a UIBarButtonItem fixed at the bottom of the screen. Here can you see my Storyboard So I added via drag and drop a Toolbar and in the toolbar an button into the Period TableViewController, thus it is on the same hierarchic level like the UITableView. Unfortunately neither the "PayOff" Button nor a bottom Toolbar does appear in the app.

Can you help me, what is wrong with my Storyboard?

Answer 1

In your ViewController try adding this

[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:NO animated:YES];

and use this to add BarItems to it

[self setToolbarItems:@[item1, item2, item3] animated:YES];

I'm using this method to add a scan button to a UITableViewController:

UIBarButtonItem *leftSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
UIBarButtonItem *rightSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
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UIBarButtonItem *scanItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:scanButton];

[self setToolbarItems:@[leftSpace, scanItem, rightSpace] animated:YES];

You should be careful because the ToolBar visibility is set for the entire NavigationController you are using and you should show/hide it when needed.

Also the items on it need to be set on each controller (I have this issue, maybe there is a better way to do it)

Hope this helps.