Swift: Adding a toolbar and tool bar button item to a Table View

Question

I am unable to add a tool bar to my tableView using the Xcode main.storyboard. Thus, I tried coding it in manually in the viewDidLoad()

    let logOutButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Log Out", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Bordered, target: self, action: "logOut")
    var bottomBarButtonArray = [UIBarButtonItem]()
    bottomBarButtonArray.append(logOutButton)

    self.navigationController!.setToolbarHidden(false, animated: true)

    self.navigationController!.toolbar.items = bottomBarButtonArray

May I know how do I set the logOutButton text and also how to detect if logOutButton has been pressed.

I tried logOutButton.description = "Log Out" but it does not work.

My toolbar does appear but I have no idea how to add the text for the logout button.

Answer 1

The solution is to use UIViewController as parent class and not UITableViewController

How to add a toolbar to a TableView in iOS

Answer 2

If the TableView happens to be embedded in a Navigation Controller, there is an easy solution: you can add the Toolbar straight away in the NavigationController. The checkbox 'Shows Toolbar' in the Attributes Inspector is all you need. Details: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34832688/5897915