iosuisearchbarabpeoplepickerview

iOS: Removed cancel button reappears after using search controller

I am using an ABPeoplePickerNavigationController in my app and have overrode the navigation bar buttons to my own using UINavigationControllerDelegate. 

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController didShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    navigationController.topViewController.searchDisplayController.searchBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;

    navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;
    navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;

    UIBarButtonItem *cancelButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCancel
                                                                                      target:self
                                                                                      action:@selector(cancel:)];
    navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = cancelButtonItem;

    UIBarButtonItem *addButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd
                                                                                       target:self
                                                                                       action:@selector(addItem:)];
    navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = addButtonItem;

}

This works fine. However, when I use the search controller and exit out of it, my top right button suddenly changes to a Cancel button (see image below). How can I fix this? Thanks in advance.

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Solution

  • OK, just figured out how to fix this. I just added a notification to see when the keyboard will be hidden and added the button back to the navigation bar.

    1) Declare and synthesize the property mainNavigationController:

    @property UINavigationController *mainNavigationController;

    2) In (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController didShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated, add:

    mainNavigationController = navigationController;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(onNotification:) name:UIKeyboardWillHideNotification object:nil];

    3) Add the method onNotification:

    -(void)onNotification:(NSNotification*)notification
{
    UIBarButtonItem *addButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd
                                                                                   target:self
                                                                                   action:@selector(addItem:)];
    mainNavigationController.topViewController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = addButtonItem;
}