使导航栏的左栏按钮标题与上一个视图的标题相同

Question

In my 1st VC(postVC) , I have below code to set navigation bar title varied to username:

// Set nav bar items.
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:NO];
NSString *title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@%@'s Posts",[userPassed username]];
self.navigationItem.title = title;

However, there is a little problem here that when I call 2nd VC(detailVC) by this method (push VC), the left bar button item's title in the 2nd VC is shown "back" but I expect its title to follow the title in previous VC( 1st VC ).

- (void) didSelectItemFromCollectionView:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    NSDictionary *cellData = [notification object];
    if (cellData)
    {
        if (!self.detailViewController)
        {
            self.detailViewController = [[PAWUserPostsDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"PAWUserPostsDetailViewController" bundle:nil];
        }
    self.detailViewController.detailItem = cellData;
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:self.detailViewController animated:YES];
    }
}

If I change

 self.navigationItem.title = @"test";

it works as expected. In 2nd VC , left bar button item's title is shown "test" as I want. So, to be clear, my question is how to make left bar button item's title follow the title of previous VC which is varied by username.

Answer 1

This is a workout, although probably not the most efficient:

Create a property in your header file of PAWUserPostsDetailViewController

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *backButtonTitle; 

Then go back into your view controller where you select the row and put this in didSelectItem method:

NSString *backTitle = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@%@'s Posts",[userPassed username]];

PAWUserPostsDetailViewController *detailVC = [[PAWUserPostsDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"PAWUserPostsDetailViewController" bundle:nil];;
detailVC.backButtonTitle = backTitle;

Then go back into your PAWUserPostsDetailViewController.m and set it as you normally would:

self.navigationItem.title = backButtonTitle;

Answer 2

In postVC.h file

@property (strong, nonatomic)NSString*title;

In postVC.m file

title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@%@'s Posts",[userPassed username]];
self.navigationItem.title = title;
self.detailViewController.newtitle=self.title; 
[self.navigationController pushViewController:self.detailViewController animated:YES];

In detailVC.h file

  @property (strong, nonatomic) NSString*newtitle;

In detailVC.m file

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:newtitle style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(back:)];

Answer 3

First try this:

NSString *title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"@%@'s Posts",[userPassed username]]; 

// If it`s to long try this:
    if ([title length] > 7)
{
    title = [title substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 6)];
}
self.title = title;

There isn't any reason to the first option doesn't work, but here a another option:

UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] init];

    if ([title length] > 7)
{
    title = [title substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(0, 6)];
}
backButton.title = title;
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton;

Becarfuly if title is to long, the name of the button will be back,