how could I get the frame of a rightbarbuttonItem in swift? I found this : UIBarButtonItem: How can I find its frame? but it says cannot convert NSString to UIView, or cannot convert NSString to String :
let str : NSString = "view" //or type String
let theView : UIView = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem!.valueForKey("view")//or 'str'
The goal is to remove the rightBarButtonItem, add an imageView instead, and move it with a fadeOut effect.
Thanks
You should try it like:
var barButtonItem = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem!
var buttonItemView = barButtonItem.valueForKey("view")
var buttonItemSize = buttonItemView?.size
Edit (Swift 3):
var barButtonItem = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem!
let buttonItemView = barButtonItem.value(forKey: "view") as? UIView
var buttonItemSize = buttonItemView?.size
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
let customButton = UIButton(type: .system)
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
customButton.setImage(UIImage(named: "myImage"), for: .normal)
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: customButton)
}
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
print(self.customButton.convert(self.customButton.frame, to: nil))
}
}
You must use UIBarButtonItem objects created with customView
for this; UIBarButtonItem objects created the regular way don't have enough information exposed. It's important that the frame be looked up after the parent UINavigationController's UINavigationBar has completely laid out its entire subview tree. For most use cases, the visible UIViewController's viewDidAppear
is a good enough approximation of this.
In Swift4, XCode9
for view in (self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews)! {
if let findClass = NSClassFromString("_UINavigationBarContentView") {
if view.isKind(of: findClass) {
if let barView = self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem?.value(forKey: "view") as? UIView {
let barFrame = barView.frame
let rect = barView.convert(barFrame, to: view)
}
}
}
}