Adding Tabbar Controller Icon IPhone

Question

I am adding a viewController to a TabBarController. When I add a ViewController from the custom class and Nib, it''s icon does not show up in the tabBar.

If I initialize like this the icon does not show up.

viewController = [[FlashCardViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"FlashCardViewController"  bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];

But creating a generic viewController works.

viewController = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil  bundle:nil];

Here we add the image and title.

viewController.title = @"Quiz";
viewController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"magnifying-glass.png"];

How can I get the icon to display if load from a NIB?

Answer 1

You can add the call to the tabBarItem.image setter inside the custom view controller's viewDidLoad method:

@implementation FlashCardViewController
//...
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"magnifying-glass.png"];
}
//...
@end

Edit: OK, so that didn't work. Try:

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"magnifying-glass.png"];
    self.tabBarItem = [[[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"string"
                                                     image:image
                                                       tag:0] autorelease];
}

Answer 2

Why are you passing in [NSBundle mainbundle] to the FlashCardViewController init? Usually you just pass in nil - as per your working example...

Answer 3

Thanks! I didn't know I can change it from here. You are like god for me now :P