MoreNavigationController images disappearing on select

Question

I have a UITabBarController which has been created programatically, which has 6 tabs. As such the MoreNavigationController is automatically created to take care of having more than 5 tabs. Everything looks fine when the MoreNavigationController is displayed, but when I select one of these rows to push the view controller on to the stack, the cell image (tab bar image) disappears. When I pop that view controller, the image remains hidden until the pop animation is completed, at which point the image suddenly appears again.

This is fairly old code and I wouldn't do it this way these days, but everything works except for this last little thing so I'm pretty hesitant to rip out all the code and do it another way. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

An example of creating one of the tab bar view controllers:

InfoViewController* infoViewController = [[InfoViewController alloc] init];
infoViewController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"90-life-buoy.png"];
infoViewController.tabBarItem.title = @"More Info";
infoViewController.title = @"More Info";
UINavigationController* infoNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:infoViewController];
[infoViewController release];

Creating the tab bar:

tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:outdoorsNavController, peopleNavController, citiesNavController, landscapesNavController, infoNavController, basicsNavController, nil];
[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];

EDIT: Doesn't seem to make any difference whether I use retina (@2x) images or not.

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but have you tried setting the NavigationCotroller's .tabBarItem?