Question

Im using the new storyboarding features with ios. I have a tab bar which also has a class name called mytabbarcontroller. However I do not have a seperate class for this as in a .h/.m file for this since all its implementation is in different views which is sorted. Now i have a view controller which appears before the tab bar with an activity indicator. Once it stops it has to move to the tab bar controller. However i cant initialise it with mytabbarcontroller since i dont have .h files to import. Currently it goes to a tab bar controller with nothing on it – basically it creates a new tab bar controller. My code is as follow. I also tried initwithnibname and gave the nib name – i.e mytabbarcontroller. However this throws an error.

UITabBarController *controller = (UITabBarController *)[[UITabBarController alloc] init ];
controller.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];

Answer 1

because you are declaring a new UITabBarController, try this instead, import and intialize the first view of the tab bar, for example

FirstSceneController.h

import "FirstTabViewController.h"

…

FirstTabViewController *firstTab = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"mytabbarcontroller"];
[firstTab setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical];
[self presentModalViewController:firstTab animated:YES];

….
and also be sure to add a navigation controller and connect it to your first scene.