Question

In my iPad application, I use a tabBarController. I run the following code to select to a specific tab :

[tabBarController setSelectedViewController:myNavigationController];

(I modify the property selectedViewController of the class UITabBarController, see apple docs)

This works perfectly ; the only issue is that when the users navigate back to the “More…” screen with the upper left button, the icon for the previously selected tab is missing :

When I navigate manually, there is no problem. The icons are always visible in “More” screen. The issue occurs only when I use the method setSelectedViewController.

The tab bar items are created as follows :

newVC = [[SynchronizeViewController alloc] init];
newVC.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] 
    initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"SYNCHRONIZE", @"synchronize tab label") 
    image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"02-redo.png"] tag:0];

Has someone encountered the same issue and found a way to fix this ? Thanks in advance !

Answer 1

Could you please add next method to Synchronize controller:

- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidDisappear:animated];
    AppDelegate* appDelegate = (AppDelegate*)[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
    UITableView *view = (UITableView *)appDelegate.tabBarController.moreNavigationController.topViewController.view;
    [view reloadData];
}