Please Help: Tab Bar + Navigation Buttons

paulkreuzer · 08-09-2010, 06:13 PM

Please help me with this.

I'm trying to create an app with a tab bar and view swithing buttons.
I was able to do both seperately, one app with a tab bar to switch between views and one app with buttons to switch views.
But when I try to connect the two it doesn't work.

I got an app where the main window has a tab bar switching between viewController1, viewController2, viewController3, viewController4 and viewController 5.

Now I want to add 4 buttons to viewController1 that direct me to ViewController1v1, ViewController1v2, ViewController1v3 and ViewController1v4. And a button on each of theese viewControllers that take me back.
I don't want a navigation controller, just simple Round Rect Buttons.

How do I do that?
Do I have to delete the viewController1 .h & .m files and the View in the .xib file and then act like viewController1.xib is the MainWindow.xib of the "Navigation Buttons App"?

And what do I need to do different if I try some tutorials and don't want to create single apps for all of them but include them all as a view in my tabBar app?

Thanks,
Paul

kapps11 · 08-09-2010, 06:17 PM

Ok Im a little confused... so u have a tab bar app and the views inside of that have buttons that will take you to more views.

The easiest way to do that would be to actually use navigation controllers (I knw u said u didnt want to) but then just hid the nav bar and everything and itll work great. Then to load a view controller just use pushViewController and the custon back buttons u wanna make just need to call popViewController.

paulkreuzer · 08-09-2010, 07:45 PM

I tried it with a navigation controller again and this time it worked.
the problem was that I just had put them both in the mainwindow.xib window in the interface builder instead of putting the navigation controller into the tab bar controller...

but i don't know how to hide the navigation bar, could you tell me?

Jake · 08-09-2010, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulkreuzer

I tried it with a navigation controller again and this time it worked.
the problem was that I just had put them both in the mainwindow.xib window in the interface builder instead of putting the navigation controller into the tab bar controller...

but i don't know how to hide the navigation bar, could you tell me?

I can't be sure because I'm not near my computer, but I'm pretty sure that there's a checkbox in Interface Builder to hide the navigation bar. It should be the "hidden" attribute.

kapps11 · 08-09-2010, 09:38 PM

Im not on my comp either, but if you cant do it in IB in code its just like

[navController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:NO]; or something like that

paulkreuzer · 08-09-2010, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jake

I can't be sure because I'm not near my computer, but I'm pretty sure that there's a checkbox in Interface Builder to hide the navigation bar. It should be the "hidden" attribute.

Thanks, I just had to uncheck "show navigation bar"

Thats all I wanted to know for today, but I'll probably have alot more questions tomorrow