Question

I constructed a tabbar with more than 5 tabs and the remainders were automatically added into the “More” view. That is fine, but along with that, the user is able to “Edit” the configuration of the app’s tabs.

I do not want the user to be able to do that. Is there a way to prevent the user from doing this?

Answer 1

Take a look at the UITabBarController documentation. Search for “customizableViewControllers”

customizableViewControllers

The subset of view controllers managed
by this tab bar controller that can be
customized.

@property(nonatomic, copy) NSArray
*customizableViewControllers

Discussion

This property controls which items in
the tab bar can be rearranged by the
user. When the user taps the More item
on the tab bar view, a custom
interface appears displaying any items
that did not fit on the main tab bar.
This interface also contains an Edit
button that allows the user to
rearrange the items. Only the items
whose associated view controllers are
in this array can be rearranged from
this interface. If the array is empty
or the value of this property is nil,
the tab bar does not allow any items
to be rearranged.

Changing the value of the
viewControllers property (either
directly or using the
setViewControllers:animated: method)
also changes the value of this
property. When first assigned to the
tab bar controller, all view
controllers are customizable by
default.

Basically what you have to do is use the following code, to set the value to nil:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application
{
tabBarController.customizableViewControllers=nil;
}

Cheers,
VFN