UIBarButton style buttons outside of a toolbar

[jonc]

Is there an easy way to get a UIBarButton style button (like the done, edit, cancel buttons) outside of a toolbar? I remember being able to do it in the earliest versions of the SDK but they changed them to UIBarButtonItems that can only be on a toolbar now. There are several places where I would like to use them outside of a toolbar and I was wondering if any of you knew of an easy way to do this, like style a UIButton like this. I figure I could use a background image but that doesn't seem very efficient.

Thanks.

[bonehead]

As far as I know, there's no way to use these outside of a button bar. However, maybe you could create a single-button button bar?

This might be a place to rethink your design...does it really make sense to show a functional icon the user normally sees in a button bar free-floating in your application?

[jonc]

I suppose that is true.

They are so shiny though! I can't keep myself away.

[cDima]

What's the conclusion? Use the aweful, hidious rounded-rect button? God no.

1. Use picture as background?
2. Do alert sheet with those delicious, glossy, sexy buttons?

Meh... Isn't there a better default than rounded-rect?

[pbeisel]

Originally Posted by jonc

Is there an easy way to get a UIBarButton style button (like the done, edit, cancel buttons) outside of a toolbar? I remember being able to do it in the earliest versions of the SDK but they changed them to UIBarButtonItems that can only be on a toolbar now. There are several places where I would like to use them outside of a toolbar and I was wondering if any of you knew of an easy way to do this, like style a UIButton like this. I figure I could use a background image but that doesn't seem very efficient.

Thanks.

checkout Shiny Red Buttons (Digression)

[oohmyygoood]

I had the same requirement, so I used OSX's Grab to capture the button images into png files and then using them as the image file for UIButton.