How to set the text of a back button on a UINavigationBar?

Question

The Situation:
I have a UIViewController that is governed by a navigation controller. I am able to set the title of the navigation bar covering the UIViewController by simply calling self.title = @"title". But, I want to be able to set the back button text of the navigation bar, too (for different languages n' such..)

The Problem:
I don't know how to set the back button's text.

The Question:
How do I set the back button of the UINavigation bar (programmatically not in IB)?

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Answer 1

Check out this answer to the same question.

Answer 2

You either have to replace the back button with your own by changing the left bar button item, in which case it won't be the spiffy left pointing button. Or, you have to set the title of the calling view controller. You can do this right before you push the new view controller. Like this (for example):

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    [self setTitle:@"Back Button Text"];
    SecondViewController *controller = [[SecondViewController alloc] init];
    [[self navigationController] pushViewController:controller animated:YES];
    [controller release];
}

Then reset it in -viewWillAppear of your calling view controller so that when it re-appears after the second controller is popped, it will have the original text.

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    [self setTitle:@"View Header Text"];
}

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