2 UITabBarItems weird behavior : 1st visible & 2nd hidden until clicked

[hatembr]

hi,

I have a weird behavior with tab bar items.

I have 2 items in the tab bar. when the app is launched, the 1st one's image is visible but not the title. while the second is completely visible. when clicked the 2nd's text disappears.

any idea please ? here is my code :

ArticlesViewController *articlesViewController = [[ArticlesViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ArticlesViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
	WebTVViewController *videosViewController = [[WebTVViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"WebTVViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
	
	UINavigationController *articlesNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:articlesViewController];
	UINavigationController *videosNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:videosViewController] ;
	
	// tab bar items
	UITabBarItem *itemArticles = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Top News" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"v2-tabbar-une.png"] tag:1];
	articlesNavController.tabBarItem = itemArticles;
	[itemArticles release];
	
	UITabBarItem *itemWebTV = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Web TV" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"v2-tabbar-webtv.png"] tag:1];
	videosViewController.tabBarItem = itemWebTV;
	[itemWebTV release];
	
	tabBarController.viewControllers  = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:articlesNavController, videosNavController, nil];
	
	
	[articlesNavController release];
	[videosNavController release];
	[articlesViewController release];
	[videosViewController release];

I have attached 2 screenshots to see this behavior.

[hatembr]

seems like the attachments are not working.
here are the links :

[hatembr]

I moved the bar item creation to the init function as described in the apple docs :

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
	if (self = [super initWithNibName:@"ArticlesViewController" bundle:nil]) {
		
		// tab bar items
		UIImage *tabImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"v2-tabbar-une.png"];
		UITabBarItem *itemArticles = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Top News" image:tabImage tag:0];
		itemArticles.enabled = YES;
		self.tabBarItem = itemArticles;
		[itemArticles release];
		
		self.title = @"";
	}
	
	return self;
}

Now I get this :




any idea please ?

[hatembr]

plz, any idea why is this happening?

[wuf810]

Originally Posted by hatembr

plz, any idea why is this happening?

Not sure as I only ever use IB to create tabBars.

Anyway a long shot: could it be they have the same Tag number?

[hatembr]

no :s
I tried different ones but it looks the same.

[hatembr]

ok I moved to IB. It is solved.
But I am still curious to know why it wasn't working. I checked Apple's tutorials and few blogs, the code is the same. Weird.

[wuf810]

Originally Posted by hatembr

ok I moved to IB. It is solved.
But I am still curious to know why it wasn't working. I checked Apple's tutorials and few blogs, the code is the same. Weird.

Not sure but it could be something minor and easily missed.

Anyway glad to hear it is working now!