Change the width of an UIBarButtonItem

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How can I change the width of an UIBarButtonItem to 29px? The property width does not work and I don't want to create a UIButton and use the initWithCustomView because I want the square background to adjust to the navigation bar color. I'm using the initWithImage to init the UIBarButtonItem.

Here is my button with a current width of 37px. I want to set to 29px.

UIButton

@MaxMacLeod The asker specifically doesn't want to use initWithCustomView... — Ben Flynn, Jul 21 '13 at 02:36

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '11 at 09:25

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you cant. If you want custom width you will need to use initWithCustomView

answered Dec 28 '11 at 09:25

RolandasR

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But why do they have the property width in the UIBarButtonItem class? – gnclmorais Dec 28 '11 at 10:02
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you can use it only if button in UIToolbar – RolandasR Dec 28 '11 at 10:36

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '13 at 15:30

You can do it by dropping an image to the bar button item from the interface builder and changing the width of the custom view with this code:

CGRect frame = self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.customView.frame;
frame.size.width = 141;
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.customView.frame = frame;

Change the width of an UIBarButtonItem

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