Question

My iPhone app has a login page (shocker i know) but when the user successfully logs in, I want a view with a tab bar at the bottom to load and populate the buttons with data from the specific user. I can not find any tutorials on the tab bar, just the tab bar controller and from what i’ve read and seen, you can only have a tab bar controller on the MainWindow.xib. If thats not true, please show me how to have a tab bar controller on a view other that the main window. This is driving me nuts. Beer on me for a solution. Thanks

Answer 1

I have the same exact thing going on in my app and I can sympathize with you. There really isn’t much to go on out there.

For me, it starts in your AppDelegate. I would validate the login info there, if it was good, push out the tabbarcontroller. If not, just present the logincontroller instead. It can be a tad tricky, but if you start there, you should be able to use everything else to get what you need.

Use the AppDelegate to determine which controller to push. When you push the login and it is good, call back to your appdelegate to push the tab bar controller and kill off the login.

Hope this helps. Good Luck.