uitabbarcontroller

loading a view on top of tabbarcontroller

Hi, I have a tabbar controller and on touching a button in one of view's navigation right button i want to load a (nav controller + view )on top of it. The view which is on the top of it is semi transparent and i should be able to see the content in the tabbar controller. I tried using the [self.tabbarcontroller.view addSubview:navCon...

IBAction crashes TabBarController App

I have a Window-based TabBarController app and I'm trying to present a ModalView from one of the tabs (FirstViewController). The app builds just fine and the tabs work, but upon clicking the "Open Modal View" button, it crashes and gives me: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UIViewContro...

UIScrollView in UITabBarController

Hi all, thanks in advance, i am developing an application by using Tab Bar application, with navigation controller. In first view controller i am displaying table view, after selecting the cell, it will navigates to another view controller, there i have to use UIScrollView. in scroll view i have taken the frame width and height is 32...

adding a navigator controller + view to window not rotating to landscape

Hi, I have a tabbar based application. The tabbarcontroller is on the top of the window. I tried to add a navigation controller+view on the top of the window. It works fine. but when i try to press the button which actually intiates this in landscape view it is still getting displayed in the potrait view. I set those parameters in shoul...

MPMoviePlayerController inside UITabBarController

Ok, so here's the thing. I have a UIViewController that contains a UITabBarController. That tab bar has a UIViewController for each tab button. Now, inside one of the tab buttons is an MPMoviePlayerController that is playing a stream from over the network. Playing the stream works just fine and you can see the video and hear the audio. ...

iphone - TabBarController rotation question

My app has 4 tabs. All the view controllers support rotation, and indeed are rotated when I rotate the device. For one of the view controllers, I need to reposition some of the subviews upon rotation. I do this in willRotateToInterfaceOrientation of that view controller, and it works fine. The problem comes when I switch to a different ...

UITabbarController setting view

Hi, I have a UITabbarController set by the Interfacebuilder. The tabbarcontroller has 5 tabs, the first is a welcome page, and the second is a UITableViewController. Both have a NavigationController. The 2nd tab should show a category list. When I launch the app, all is fine. When I press the 2nd tab, it load the view perfectly with the...

iphone: "preload" a view (tab bar controller)

Basically my app loads two RSS feeds - a blog feed and a twitter stream. These are in two different views in a tab bar controller. There is also a Home view which is the default view when the application launches. Ok, so basically when you go from the Home tab to the blog or twitter tab then it takes a while to load. Fair enough, its tr...

setSelectedIndex has no effect on UITabBarController

I'm attempting to add view controllers to my tabbarcontroller, and then make the first one the selected one using the following code: [self setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:self.detailController,self.mapController,nil] animated:NO]; [self setSelectedIndex:0]; When this code is called, the correct view controllers/tabs are ...

UIButton in a UITabBarController crashing when clicked!

I tried to include a custom button programmatically inside a UIView which is a subview of UITabBarController. The button is displays fine but when I click it, it crashes without an error message. Its strange that sometimes it does inconsistently: Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[NSCFSt...

Switch and Hide TabBarItems

Hi, I have an iPhone application that is setup as follows: UITabBarController CustomViewControllerLogin (UIViewController) UINavigationController CustomViewController1 (UIViewController) CustomViewController2 (UIViewController) CustomViewControllerLogout (UIViewController) How do I switch to CustomViewController1, when the user ...

Multi view navigation controller within tabs

So I'm trying to make an app with 3 tabs and one of the tabs has a navigation controller. I have succeeded in making the 3 tabs, and also turning one of them into a navigation controller. The part where I'm now stuck is trying to add additional views to the navigation controller tab. Example: Click button 1 on view 1 and it goes to view ...

Managing NSNotification along with UITabBarController interactions

I have 1 main UIViewController that contains a UITabBarController. The tab bar controller has 4 UIViewControllers (each managed by UINavigationControllers). Succinctly, it looks like this: MainViewController | |--- FirstUIViewController | |--- SecondUIViewController | |--- ThirdUIViewController | |--- FourthUIVi...

TabBars inside a viewController

Iam having a headache trying to find a solution to my problem. I have a login screen on my window application so that when the user is logged in, he/ she can do what she wants in that view. In that view, i inserted a button to flip to another view (SecondViewController). I wanted the SecondViewController to have the TabBars. i successful...

ModalViewController rotation issues within TabBarController

Hi all, I cant quite see why Im having this issue but I am..... Basically I have a Tabr bar controller with a navigationController in one of the tabs. In this particular tab I want the user to be able to rotate the device and see a completely different view, not the original view rotated! In order to achieve this (at full screen) I have...

viewWillAppear, viewDidAppear not being called, not firing

(This is both question and answer since it took quite a bit of digging to find the real answer.) Symptom: viewWillAppear, viewDidAppear were not being called in my UIViewController. Cause: Embedding a UINavigationController or UITabBarController (my case) in a UIViewController somehow interrupts with the calling of these methods. Sol...

How do I add logic to a view controller inside of a tab bar controller

I have setup a tab bar application with four tabs on the bottom (as set inside IB) Three of them are UIViews and one of them is a UITableView, and the empty shell of an app switches between tabs fine. Now, being that I have no experience with tab bars, I am not sure where my logic for the view controllers goes. I am used to setting up a...

How do I hook up a UIViewController to a TabBarController?

How do I hook up my viewcontroller to the TabBarController? Is there something I need to do in IB? I am just using the generic tabbar template from xcode and I can see where you can make new view controllers inside of the Main.xib file in inspector but I don't know how to hook up my custom view controller to a tab in the controller. Plea...

TabBar of TabBarController loosing background color

Hi there, I have a question. I'm developing an application which loads a first UIViewController, used to show some logos while fetching some data on the net. When it has finished, it discard itself as subview and loads a UITabBarController. In a first time, this process started when the user tapped the screen, and I had no problems. Now...

iPhone/iPad/iOS: tricky use of tab bar controller

Hello, Trying to implement the following behavior on an iPad. I have a map-centric application which uses a tab-bar interface. The tabs at the bottom allow the user to choose between looking at the various different types of points that are marked on the map (e.g, think of the tab-bar items "food", "lodging" and "gas", where the "food...