Changing language of tab bar elements

Question

Hi:

we're developing an iphone application to be distributed in Spain. It contains a Tab bar, but we're not quite sure how to change More and Edit into Spanish. I'm sure there's a simple solution... anybody know a way to do it?

Thanks,

Antonio

==== Edit 1 ====

This is how we add the tabbar. As you see, we create a tabBarItem for each button, but the More button comes automatically when there are more than 5 (as should be expected).

for (int i = 0; i < [buttonNames count]; i++) {
   switch (i) {
      case 1:
         viewController = [[fotos alloc] init];
         break;
      case 2:
         viewController =[[videos alloc] init];
         break;
      case 3:
         viewController =[[deportes alloc] init];
         break;
      default:
         viewController = [[MyAppViewController alloc] initWithCategory:i strCategory:[tempNames objectAtIndex:i]];
         break;
   }

   UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController];
   UITabBarItem *tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:[buttonNames objectAtIndex:i] image:[UIImage imageNamed:[imgNames objectAtIndex:i]] tag:i];
   nav.tabBarItem = tabBarItem;
   [controllers addObject:nav];
   [viewController release];
   [nav release];
   [tabBarItem release];
}

// Create the toolbar and add the view controllers
tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
[tabBarController setViewControllers:controllers animated:YES];
tabBarController.customizableViewControllers = controllers;
tabBarController.delegate = self;

// Set up the window
[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];

==== Solved ====

All I needed was a es.lproj directory in my project. I create a new file in XCode (File > New File... > Mac OS X / Other > Strings File), I name it Localizable.strings and save it in es.lproj. Any strings that need to be localized need to be defined in this file (see Localizing iPhone Apps - Internationalization), but all other strings generated by the OS (the More, Edit and Done buttons in the tabBar, video controls, etc.) will be automatically translated.

Answer 1

If you are using the built in defined types it should automagically work. If they are your own text, you'll need to be using NSLocalizedString from the code, run genstrings from Terminal, and then provide a Spanish lproj inside your bundle.