Question

I made two applications that each one of them is tabbar based.
Now I want to combine them to one app that will be struct like that:
-Main menu with 2 buttones.
– button 1: tab bar app no 1.
– button 2: tab bar app no 2.

from each tab bar app, I want an Home button on the left side of the nav bar that will take me to the main menu.

I found this link http://www.pushplay.net/blog_detail.php?id=27 but it’s not good to me..
I will be happy if you will able to post some simple code for my problem..
Thanks.

Answer 1

App’s 1 & 2 need to be based around viewcontrollers, each of which has a tabbar. The root windows can then just alloc/init and then [self.navigationController pushViewController:viewController animated:YES]; to launch the tabbar controller.

If you have relied on IB to build your tabbar applications, its quite difficult to translate them into view controllers. I create my tabbars programatically (i just find it easier) like this

tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];          // creates your tab bar so you can add everything else to it

searchTableViewController = [[SearchTableViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *searchTableNavController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:searchTableViewController] autorelease];
[searchTableViewController release];

searchMapViewController = [[SearchMapViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *mapTableNavController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:searchMapViewController] autorelease];
[searchMapViewController release];

atestViewController = [[AboutTableViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *AboutNavController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:atestViewController] autorelease];
[atestViewController release];

tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:searchTableNavController, mapTableNavController, AboutNavController, nil];

[self.view addSubview:tabBarController.view];