How to push to new view controller from modal view that implements UITabBarController.

Question

A view is presented modally:

[self presentModalViewController:modalNavController animated:YES];

This view uses a UITabBarController with 4 elements. One of these elements, "Info" has a button that's only visible if its available. If the button is clicked, it needs to push to another view controller, but I'd also like to maintain the tab bar from it's parent view. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this with or without keeping the tab bar. Ive tried pushing and presentingModally in all the places that I could image. How should this be done properly?

Creating tab bar:

    infoController.title = @"Info";
    streetViewController.title = @"Street View";
    reviewController.title = @"Reviews";

    streetViewController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"flag.png"];
    infoController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"openMarker.png"];
    reviewController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"reviews.png"];


UITabBarController *tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
    tabBarController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460);

    UINavigationController *infoNC = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:infoController] autorelease];
    infoNC.navigationBarHidden = YES;


[tabBarController setViewControllers:
    [NSArray arrayWithObjects:infoNC, streetViewController, reviewController, nil]];


[self.view addSubview:tabBarController.view];

Answer 1

When you add the view controllers to the tab bar controller you need to do this:

MyCustomViewController *vc1 = [[MyCustomViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundles:nil];
UINavigationController *nc1 = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:recipesRootView] autorelease];
[vc1 release];

then add nc1 instead of your custom view.

Then in MyCustomViewController to push another view controller do:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:(UIViewController *)page animated:YES];

That should work for you, and keep the tab bar controller.