How do you set the font size on a UIBarButtonItem?

Question

I can\'t find a way to set the font size of the title in a custom UIBarButtonItem. The only way I can think of getting around this is to set it as an image which I would like to

Answer 1

As a concrete example of what KennyTM suggests, you create the UIBarButtonItem with something like the following (in code):

UILabel *txtLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
txtLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
txtLabel.textColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor];
txtLabel.text = @"This is a custom label";
UIBarButtonItem *btnText = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:txtLabel] autorelease];

Then, you can add it as centered text on a UIToolbar (for instance) with the following:

UIToolbar *toolBar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
toolBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;
UIBarButtonItem *flexSpace1 = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil] autorelease];
UIBarButtonItem *flexSpace2 = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil] autorelease];

[toolBar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithItems:flexSpace1, btnText, flexSpace2, nil]];

(of course, to get proper formatting, the rect used for initializing txtLabel and toolBar should be the proper sizes.... but that's another exercise!)