Question

I would like to know how to make the UITabBarItem be highlighted when I choose to do so in the program. Is this possible?

THanks

Answer 1

You can change which tab is selected — which also changes the highlight — easily:

tabcontroller.selectedIndex = youNewIndexHere;

If your tabcontroller is in the app delegate (which is the case if you used the tab bar application template when you created your project) it would look something like this:

ProjectNameAppDelegate *appDelegate = (ProjectNameAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[appDelegate tabcontroller].selectedIndex = youNewIndexHere;