iPhone - How to have a custom browser be able to detect if back/forward buttons need to be enabled/disabled

Question

Hey guys! I have a tumblr app that I am developing, and I have a button that pushes a modal view that contains a webview and a toolbar on the bottom with refresh, back, forward and done buttons. The back forward and refresh buttons work, however I want to be able to tell if the webview can actually go back/forward and if not, disable the button..I have tried the code below, and the image nor the enable/disable changes.

- (IBAction)refreshPage {
    [signUpWebView reload];
}

- (IBAction)goBack {
    [signUpWebView goBack];
}

- (IBAction)goForward {
    [signUpWebView goForward];
}


-(void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
    // Enable or disable back
    if ([signUpWebView canGoBack]) {
        [backOnePage setEnabled:YES];
        backOnePage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"backButton"];
    } else {
        [backOnePage setEnabled:NO];
        backOnePage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"backButtonDisabled"];
    }

    // Enable or disable forward
    if ([signUpWebView canGoForward]) {
        [forwardOnePage setEnabled:YES];
        forwardOnePage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"forwardButton"];
    } else {
        [forwardOnePage setEnabled:NO];
        forwardOnePage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"forwardButtonDisabled"];
    }

}

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Please post the code you're using to create the webview in the first place. How are you initializing your site? — sudo rm -rf, Apr 15 '11 at 21:18

Anne · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-15T21:28:12.117

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I recommend binding the forward and backward button directly to the UIWebview.

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Automatically enable and disable like this:

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)mwebView {
    backButton.enabled = (webView.canGoBack);
    forwardButton.enabled = (webView.canGoForward);
}

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
    backButton.enabled = (webView.canGoBack);
    forwardButton.enabled = (webView.canGoForward);
}

edited Apr 15 '11 at 21:28

answered Apr 15 '11 at 21:21

Anne

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If you do this, you also have to make sure that you connect the UIWebView to the File Owner as delegate. – Alex Muller Apr 16 '11 at 02:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '11 at 21:23

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When you first initialize your webView, try starting it with a request, like this:

[signUpWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com"]]];

So you're initializing the webView with loadRequest: instead of loadHTMLString:, or something similar.

answered Apr 15 '11 at 21:23

sudo rm -rf

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However, I don't know if you are already doing this, as I don't have your code. – sudo rm -rf Apr 15 '11 at 21:24

iPhone - How to have a custom browser be able to detect if back/forward buttons need to be enabled/disabled

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