Comments on: Creating a Tabbar

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:50:06 +0000

Thank you!!! I have been fighting with this for days.

Your tutorial was simple enough for me to get it working. Other tutorials added in core data and sqlite and custom managed objects and it was a little over my head at first. The only thing I would suggest that could make it easier would be to have a link to your source code.

Thanks again, really saved me some frustration.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:57:30 +0000

Jared,

You would have created a root view controller that the xib files are loaded into, or you are using the main window. I would subclass a view controller, and load it with the xib files I want as my GUI, and at the top or bottom, add a UIToolbar to the root view controller. think of it hierarchically –
UIWindow
UIViewController
UIToolbar (as subview)
UIView (the first UI xib file)
And so on through the views

This way, you can add buttons, views and more to your toolbar, and your view controller holds all your views.

Cheers,

Joe

By: LiveCity

LiveCity — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:34:26 +0000

I have built a navigation based application with drill down. I need to add a subview with a tabbar after touching a cell. So far, I have been unsuccessful. I can get the view to show, but can’t seem to get the tabbar to work. Can this be done? If so, is there a tutorial out there? I am a newbie to programming trying to learn as much as I can. Tutorials seem to work better for me.

Thanks in advance,
Dustin

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:51:36 +0000

I’m making an app that has many nib/xib files in it. All have different backgrounds and buttons on them. The buttons trigger actions that changes the xib files shown to the user. The xib files are 320 wide by 480 high. I animate the transition and everything works perfectly.

What I want to do (but can’t figure out yet) is have a header image (say 100 high to make things easy to explain) that always stays in the same spot even during transitions from one xib to another. Can I do something like [portraitWindow addSubview:someXibName]; jointly with an animation?

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:19:26 +0000

As you may of already discovered, if you add more tabs than can be shown on the screen, a “More” tab is created by the framework.

As far as vertical arrangement of a tabbar, this is something that you would need to code yourself. I created something similar to this by aligning a vertical row of images from the top to the bottom of the screen.

John

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:11:33 +0000

You don’t by any chance know how i might go about creating a tab bar that goes vertically instead of horizontally do you? it’s just that i want to fit a lot more than 3 or 4 icons