uitabbarcontroller

Showing a one-time UIViewController via presentModalViewController upon launch

Greetings! I have a working iPhone app (huzzah!) that uses a MainView.xib containing a fully-stocked UITabBar with several UINavigationController objects and views at-the-ready. I've now been asked to add a one-time registration view to this mix. This view would appear before the UITabBar at app-launch, get some info from the user, regi...

Update UIViewControllers after switching of the tabbar selection

I have two view controllers in a tabbar which can both edit data. Therefore, I need to call a reload_data function whenever the user makes a switch on the tabbar. How can I catch the switch or the appearance of the viewcontroller. Somehow viewDidAppear is not called on a tabbar switch. And I do not want to use the tabbarController delega...

viewDidAppear Not Firing in Tabbarcontroller>NavigationController>UITableView

I currently have a tab bar controller set up with a navigationcontroller on one of the tabs, then I have a UITableView nib set up for that Navigationcontrollers view. All of this has been set up through IB and I want to keep it that way. Kind of like this tutorial http://twilloapp.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-embed-navigation-controller.h...

Tab bar limits?

Is there any way to increase the number of items in the iphone tab bar beyond five? I know that it can create a "More..." tab, but it seems excessive for just one more tab. I have an app which needs six (Alternatively I will have to do some deep meditation to get rid of one). ...

iPhone - avoid "more" tab from showing up in tab-based iPhone app

Hi Is it possible to avoid the "more" tab to show up in my tab-based app? My app has 6 tabs and it feels stupid to have the More tab for just 1 extra tab. Thanks. ...

Use a UIButton to add a UITabBarController(and its view) or a UINavigationController(and its view)

Hi, i'm trying to load a simple uiview at the start with 2 buttons. I would like to do the following: -Press one of the buttons to go to a Tab bar view(and/or its controller) -Press another one to go to a navigation view(and/or its controller) -Also how to go back to the original view from those 2 views(tab bar and navigation) I kno...

Problems with TabBarController and NavigationController

Hi there, im trying to programatically do a UITabBarController using a UINavigationController inside each UIViewController called by the tabs... tried everything... read every article... but 100% of the tutorials ive found uses in the UITableViewControllers... here is the app delegate: // // mluThunderCamAppDelegate.m // mluThunderCam...

iPhone: AddressBook loaded in a Tab's View

I have what I thought would be a simple task. I have a sample project that will let a user click a button to pull up the AddressBook user interface within a view. From what I see most of the work is done here: -(IBAction) checkOutBookid)sender { ABPeoplePickerNavigationController *peoplePicker=[[ABPeoplePickerNavigationController alloc]...

Making the tab bar disappear on switiching views - iPhone programming

I am posting my own solution since I spent a lot of time hunting for it and finally figured it out using the clues from stackoverflows posts. http://kaustubhvibhute.blogspot.com/2009/11/making-tab-bar-dissappear-on-switiching.html ...

Set tabBarItem.badgeValue for not-yet-alloced viewController?

I have used the Tab Bar Application in New Project in Xcode. In IB, I have added NavigationControllers and I have five in total. On app launch the user login, and I would like to set a badgeValue for the fifth tabBarItem, but I am unable to do so, pretty much anywhere. I'd prefer to do it after the login code has run, but I am not sure ...

Question for Printer connection from iPhone and for more than 5 tabs in UITabBarController

Hi All, I am developing an application where I need to connect to the bluetooth printer via iPhone where I generated a ".txt" file which I need to print. So is there any information available which will help me in this. A sample code will be a great help. Also in the same example I am having 8 tabs, out of which 4 are shown in "More" s...

iPhone drill-down menus are resetting when current tab is touched

I'm building an iPhone app with a tab bar. The second and third tabs each contain an identical set of drill-down menus, implemented as a stack of (a subclass of) UITableViewControllers. Almost everything works fine, except this: when I drill down through the menus on the second or third tab, and then touch the SAME tab again, that set ...

tabbarcontroller and table view reload problem

I've same sort of typical table reload problem. I've a tabbar controller associated with the navigation controller. I've separate tableview controllers for two tabs. While the first tab - table reload works fine, in the second tab, table view reference is turning out to be nil. (Memory reference is coming as 0x0). Any help in this regard...

Tab/navigation hybrid like iPod/Music

I'm working on an application that I'd like to use the same hybrid of navigation and tab bars that the iPod/Music application uses to navigate playlists. Basically: Navigation to deal with delving deeper into a particular list tree. A tab bar along the bottom to switch between lists, which appears on most/all subscreens. The tab bar's...

How to preserve iPhone application state before terminating the application ?

Hi all, I have developed an iPhone application with tab bar and navigation controllers. It is working fine for now. Now I want the application to save its state before quitting. Suppose I have 6 tabs and If an incoming call comes , so after relaunching the app I should see the tab selected that was lastly selected . I have seen seve...

disable uitabbar

how can i disable uitabbarcontroller? I want to disable uitabbar and enable it after clicking a button. ...

Programatically resize a UIViewController based on its container

I have a simple UIViewController with just a UIWebView. The UIWebView should take all available space to show the content of an url. I would like to reuse this ViewController in various places. In some cases it will be pushed into a NavigationController, in some it will be shown as a ModalViewController. Sometimes it might be inside a T...

How to add view in UITabBarController

I find a problem is that when I use UITabBarController , each time viewController have to be define in the property 'viewControllers', this cause coder can not free the unused viewcontroller in freely, I meaning is that when shift to second tab view then I want free the first tab view immediately , but now , I can not do this action........

Prevent automatic popToRootViewController on double-tap of UITabBarController

The default behavior of a UITabBarController is to pop the contained UINavigationController to the root view controller when a particular tab is tapped a second time. I have a particular use case where I'm wanting this to not work automatically, and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to prevent this. Has anyone run into this, and i...

A Leak in Apple's iPhone project template?!

Today, I tried to fix a leak in my newly created iPhone app. After some search, I've discovered that Apple has a leak in it's Tab Bar application template. Have you discovered the same, or am I wrong? ...