Standard way to have a UIBarButtonItem point to the right?

Question

When a new view controller is pushed onto the navigation stack, there is standard support for a back button with the title of the previous view controller. This button "points" to the left rather than having a rounded rectanglar shape.

Is there a standard way to create a UIBarButtonItem that "points" to the right? This button would be used as the rightBarButtonItem.

Answer 1

Using the Three20 library you can do it easily without creating an image yourself (and it will size up correctly depending on your text):

This screenshot comes from the example application that comes with Three20.

Answer 2

You could use one of the PNG files floating around with iPhone UI widgets ( example ). Take the left-pointing button and flip it horizontally in Photoshop or another image editing tool to make it point right-wards.

Then insert a UIButton into the rightBarButtonItem view, using the horizontally-flipped widget as its image property.