add Toolbar above UITableView for use in UISplitViewController detail view

Question

I want to use a table view as the detail pane in my UISplitViewController. How do I put the toolbar at the top? I want to be able to add bar button items in the same way as my non-table detail views. Thanks.

Answer 1

My frustration with this problem lay in trying to use the UITableViewController class, which does not allow you to add other UI elements like a toolbar. I solved it by creating a UIViewController object and adding the toolbar and table view to its nib individually. I then had the ViewController implement the table view's delegate and data source methods. Works great.