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Originally Posted by jdandrea

Ha! Interesting. So you're in a Nav controller, but you want the Tab Bar to show up after the fact, not before.

It's interesting that you mention this because some folks, when starting out to go the usual direction (tab bar controller, then a nav or view controller in each tab bar item), sometimes end up with what you're looking for ... by mistake!

I've never set out to do this, so I'm going to wing it here a bit. Bear with me ...

So ... what if we set up a new view controller (that you'd push onto the nav controller stack), and that controlled a view that contained a tab bar controller? So far, so good.

Then, for each of those tabs, you would likely not add nav controllers, but just basic view controllers (so that the nav at the top stays put and doesn't change). Each of those VC's views should have autoresizingMask set such that they resize gracefully. (You have the nav bar at the top, so the size isn't full-height anymore, else you hide the nav bar, "... and that would make folks sad.")

You probably don't need to worry about hidesBottomBarWhenPushed on the view controller, since you don't want to hide it before a new VC appears, you want to show it as part of the new VC appearing.

I hope this helps draw a bead on things! Keep us posted.

That is exactly what I am looking for. I am essentially on that path, just not there yet. (I had to stop working on that project while I fixed an Apple rejection...lol)
I hear your concept and it sounds very promising, now I just need to sit down and try to figure out the code.

I'll start now...Ha

PS. I really do believe that it WOULD make folks sad....lmao!!!