Question

Does anyone have any tips for this scenario.

My app delegate’s nib has a viewcontroller set as the rootviewcontroller, so it loads this view controller when the app loads.

This viewcontroller has a toolbar with various buttons. These buttons are meant to switch between different view controllers.

I have tried using addChildViewController, presentViewController, presentModalViewController nothing allows me to switch between view controllers BUT still keep the toolbar visible.

If I use addSubView then all the orientation stuff goes mental and I have to resize the view controller manually which doesn’t seem like something I should be doing.

EDIT: I want to keep the nav controller’s button visible even when pushing controllers on i.e. if I have an EDIT and DELETE button I want those same buttons to remain on the toolbar even when I push different controllers onto the stack

Answer 1

It sounds like you should be using a tab bar.

Alternatively, you should be using a navigation controller with a toolbar and push/pop view controllers on this when the toolbar buttons are pressed:

Please note the navigation bar does not have to be visible if you use a navigation controller.

    //create first button
    buttonOne = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"EDIT" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(editStuff)];
    [buttons addObject:buttonOne];

    //create second button
    buttonTwo = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"DELETE" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(deleteStuff)];
    [buttons addObject:buttonTwo];


    // Add buttons to toolbar and toolbar to nav bar.
    [buttonsToolbar setItems:buttons animated:NO];
    [buttons release];

    UIBarButtonItem *twoButtons = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:buttonsToolbar];

    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = twoButtons;
    [twoButtons release];