Question

I have already posted my this problem another time but i have not got my answer perfectly.Here i am going to explain my problem another time, it is very important for me so at any cost i have to solve it.Now my problem is…

Suppose, I have 4 tabbaritem in a tabbarController and items “dashboard”,”order”,”product”,”customer”.

every item of these tabbar is a calling there respective uiviewcontroller.

dashboar calling “DashboarViewController”;

order calling “orderViewController”;

product calling “ProductViewController”;

customer calling “CustomerViewController”;

Now, i have to set a scrolling menubar at every uiviewcontroller and this menu bar containing 4 buttons. These button names are same as tabbar items name “dashboard”,”order”,”product”,”customer”.

Now when i press the button of the menu bar then respective controller will show same as for tabbar items. suppose i am pressing “order” tabbar item then it will show the “orderviewcontroller”. when i will see this view controller it will also show me that menu bar at the top of the viewcontroller.Now, if i am click “product” button in this “orderviewcontroller” then it will sent back to me “productViewcontroller”.

thats mean tabbar item and button of the scroll menubar will work same.

still now i have done these, my previous post image
How can i make same button in multiple view controller?

If some know how can do that then please explain it step by step.I do not need to give any code from you.just explain it step by step how can i do that after reading my previous post

Thanks In Advance.

Answer 1

Ha ha ha …..it was so much fun when i solved it.whatever i solved this problem in different way, i did not use scrollview button controller for controller just, in every controller i have made function to where buttons within a scrollview create and on action of button i have just change the selected index of the tabbar controller.

in -(void)viewDidload i wrote this code

     UIView *scrollViewBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 45)];
scrollViewBackgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"topmenu_bg.png"]];

menuScrollView = [[UIScrollView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(5,0,320,40)];
menuScrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = FALSE;
menuScrollView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = FALSE;
menuScrollView.bounces = TRUE;
[scrollViewBackgroundView addSubview:menuScrollView];
[self.view addSubview:scrollViewBackgroundView];

[self createMenuWithButtonSize:CGSizeMake(92.0, 30.0) withOffset:5.0f noOfButtons:7];   

here is the button create and action

-(void)mybuttons:(id)sender{    
NSLog(@"mybuttons called");
UIButton *button=(UIButton *)sender;
NSLog(@"button clicked is : %iBut \n\n",button.tag);
int m = button.tag;
for(int j=0;j<8;j++){
    if(button.tag == m){
        self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = m;
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_hover.png"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted]; //sets the background Image]            
    }
    if(button.tag != m){
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]
    }
}
}       

 -(void)createMenuWithButtonSize:(CGSize)buttonSize withOffset:(CGFloat)offset noOfButtons:(int)totalNoOfButtons{

NSLog(@"inserting into the function for menu bar button creation"); 
for (int i = 0; i < totalNoOfButtons; i++) {

    UIButton *button = [[UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom] retain];
    [button addTarget:self action:@selector(mybuttons:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    (button).titleLabel.font =  [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:12];
    if(i==0){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Dashboard"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_hover.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]
    }
    if(i==1){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Order"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    if(i==2){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Product"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    if(i==3){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Customers"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    if(i==4){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Content"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
    }
    if(i==5){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Site Analysis"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    if(i==6){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Store Settings"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    if(i==7){
        [button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"CMS Settings"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];//with title
        [button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_topmenu_normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; //sets the background Image]

    }
    button.frame = CGRectMake(i*(offset+buttonSize.width), 6.0, buttonSize.width, buttonSize.height);
    button.clipsToBounds = YES;
    button.showsTouchWhenHighlighted=YES;
    button.layer.cornerRadius = 5;//half of the width
    button.layer.borderColor=[UIColor clearColor].CGColor;
    button.layer.borderWidth=0.0f;
    button.tag=i;
    [menuScrollView addSubview:button];
}
menuScrollView.contentSize=CGSizeMake((buttonSize.width + offset) * totalNoOfButtons, buttonSize.height);
[self.view addSubview:menuScrollView];

}