Nesting UITabBar into UINavigation Controller

Question

Hiya, I would like to know if there's an example of this anywhere. Basically I would like to push the UITabBar, and keeping with apple's guidelines I can only do this by placing the UITabBar(not the controller) in a viewController. Examples of this are in the Music selection on your iPhone/iTouch when you hit the "Now Playing" nav item, notice the tab bar pushes over.

This is somewhat of the flow I'm trying to accomplish

                                                 -----> Table (cell 1)----> Detail View 
                                                 |
Navigation Controller ----> UITabBar-|----------> view 2
                                                 |
                                                  -----> view 3

So when the app launches I'm greeted with my tab bar and when I select a cell from the tableView the detail view is pushed onto the stack resulting in a possible customized button bar at the bottom of that view.

Another good example of this functionality is the [B]NYTimes [/B]app (it's free if you want to check it out)

Now I got the basics of this running, but I'm getting crashes when trying to wire IBOutlets to the tab items in IB. Would appreciate some insight on this.

Thx much!

Answer 1

It's pretty easy. The viewcontroller you push on the stack (the one which should hide the tabbar) should have the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed property set to YES.

viewcontrollerbeingpushed.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;