Question

Ok, this one has to have been asked before but sometimes you’re so lost you don’t even know what to look for. I created an iOS project with a tab bar template (default basic one from Xcode). Now I don’t care so much about this template and want to use a single view. I designed what I needed in the story board and modified its custom class to the controller I use.

(Custom class subclass UIViewController)

Those are the only steps I have done so far. When the simulator is launched, the old template, that doesn’t exist anymore in the story board, is used and is still functional. I created a new project with the template I want and I don’t see anything special that I have to do in my main project to have it that way.
If someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

I’m not entire sure what custom class you’re setting. Obviously you can’t make the class of a UIViewController a UIView. Try to include the word ‘Controller’ in the name of any UIViewController subclasses.

Storyboarding a project

Do you see the storyboard at at all? If not –

Your AppDelegate.m should look something like this:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    return YES;
}

To ‘use’ the storyboard,

• Hit cmd-1 to see your files in the left side bar
• Select your project (top most item)
• In the Summary section you should have 1 or 2 targets, select your target (ie: the non-test target)
• Set your storyboard under iPad/iPad Deployment Info

Alternatively under the Info tab you can set the Main storyboard file base name plist entry.

Adding a View Controller

After deleting everything in the storyboard except the Tab Bar Controller Scene, ensure you’re not directly setting it’s view or anything special.

Drag a View Controller into the Storyboard canvas, then ctrl-drag from the centre of the Tab Bar Controller to the centre of the new controller, creating a relationship segue.

Then hit shift-cmd-k to clean and cmd-b/r to build/run 🙂

Hope this helps!