Question

I have searched and searched but as yet still cannot figure this ole problem out! 🙁

I have in my main.xib a TabBarController that is setup with five viewControllers.

I am trying to get the first viewcontroller to be a nav controller so that if the first tab is selected I can push and pop views into view.

But for the life of me I cannot get this to work?

I tried this in my app delegate didLaunch method:

UITabBarController *tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tabBarController.delegate=self;
FirstViewController *first = [[FirstViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"FirstView" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
UINavigationController *firstNav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:first];  
NSArray* controllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:firstNav, nil];  
tabBarController.viewControllers = controllers;  
[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];

for which I see my view displayed but no buttons appear on the tab bar?

Any tip please?? thnx

Answer 1

For that, you have to add View Controllers in TabBar programatically. Like below:

oFirstViewController.title = @"First View";
oFirstViewController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"ico.png"];
UINavigationController *myNavigationController1 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:oFirstViewController]; 
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:myNavigationController1, myNavigationController2, myNavigationController3, myNavigationController4, nil];

This way, you have to add remaining view-controller to your tabbar controller.

Hope it will he helpful to you.

Let me know in case of any difficulty.