Customize back bar button item title

When developing navigation controller-based apps, it’s pretty common to want to customize the title of the back button that is displayed on the navigation bar. Usually the button title is set to the parent view controller’s title, but you can customize that.

All you need to do is add some code to the viewDidLoad method in the parent view controller:

– (void) viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.title = @”Title goes here”;
 
    UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@”Back”
                            style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered
                            target:nil
                            action:nil];

    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton;   // Affect child view controller’s back button.
    [backButton release];
 }

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UIScrollView: paging horizontally, scrolling vertically?

Cited from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/728014/prevent-diagonal-scrolling-in-uiscrollview

// RemorsefulScrollView.h

@interface RemorsefulScrollView : UIScrollView {
  CGPoint _originalPoint;
  BOOL _isHorizontalScroll, _isMultitouch;
  UIView *_currentChild;
}
@end

// RemorsefulScrollView.m

// the numbers from an example in Apple docs, may need to tune them
#define kThresholdX 12.0f
#define kThresholdY 4.0f

@implementation RemorsefulScrollView

– (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
  if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame]) {
    self.delaysContentTouches = NO;
  }
  return self;
}

– (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder {
  if (self = [super initWithCoder:coder]) {
    self.delaysContentTouches = NO;
  }
  return self;
}

– (UIView *)honestHitTest:(CGPoint)point withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
  UIView *result = nil;
  for (UIView *child in self.subviews)
    if ([child pointInside:point withEvent:event])
      if ((result = [child hitTest:point withEvent:event]) != nil)
        break;
   
    if ([result isKindOfClass:[UITableView class]])
    {
        return result;
    }
   
    return nil;
}

– (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event]; // always forward touchesBegan — there’s no way to forward it later
    if (_isHorizontalScroll) {
        return; // UIScrollView is in charge now
    }
    if ([touches count] == [[event touchesForView:self] count]) { // initial touch
        _originalPoint = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self];
    _currentChild = [self honestHitTest:_originalPoint withEvent:event];
    _isMultitouch = NO;
    }
  _isMultitouch = _isMultitouch || ([[event touchesForView:self] count] > 1);
  [_currentChild touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

– (void)touchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
  if (!_isHorizontalScroll && !_isMultitouch) {
    CGPoint point = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self];
    if (fabsf(_originalPoint.x – point.x) > kThresholdX && fabsf(_originalPoint.y – point.y) < kThresholdY) {
      _isHorizontalScroll = YES;
      [_currentChild touchesCancelled:[event touchesForView:self] withEvent:event];
    }
  }
  if (_isHorizontalScroll) {
    [super touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event]; // UIScrollView only kicks in on horizontal scroll
    }
  else {
    [_currentChild touchesMoved:touches withEvent:event];
    }
}

– (void)touchesEnded:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
  if (_isHorizontalScroll) {
    [super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
        _isHorizontalScroll = NO;
    }
    else {
    [super touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
    [_currentChild touchesEnded:touches withEvent:event];
    }
}

– (void)touchesCancelled:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
  [super touchesCancelled:touches withEvent:event];
  if (!_isHorizontalScroll)
    {
    [_currentChild touchesCancelled:touches withEvent:event];
        _isHorizontalScroll = NO;
    }
}

@end

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