How can I customise UITabBarController or make my own?

[bluemonkey]

Hi,

I have been messing around for hours now trying to get this to work.

I am building an application which needs to have a very customised Tab Bar Controller, initially I was adding each button to the UIView as a button with the image set then setting up the IBAction to do the following when clicked

[currentView.view removeFromSuperview];
[currentView release];
currentView = [[aboutView alloc] init];
[self.view addSubview:currentView.view];

I am now running into problems where i need to click a UITableViewCell on the news view for example and that needs to push the next view into place NewsViewDetail and for this I need the navigationcontroller.

It seems i have made a complete mess of this and have loss any sense of direction.

I'm now thinking this could all be so much easier if I use UITabBarController along with UINavigationController (hidden) but I am unsure of how I can customise the tab bar to look like the attached screenshot.



Any tips or advice would be much appreciated, this problem has been driving me crazy.

Thanks

[HHuckebein]

Originally Posted by bluemonkey

Hi,

I have been messing around for hours now trying to get this to work.

I am building an application which needs to have a very customised Tab Bar Controller, initially I was adding each button to the UIView as a button with the image set then setting up the IBAction to do the following when clicked

[currentView.view removeFromSuperview];
[currentView release];
currentView = [[aboutView alloc] init];
[self.view addSubview:currentView.view];

I am now running into problems where i need to click a UITableViewCell on the news view for example and that needs to push the next view into place NewsViewDetail and for this I need the navigationcontroller.

It seems i have made a complete mess of this and have loss any sense of direction.

I'm now thinking this could all be so much easier if I use UITabBarController along with UINavigationController (hidden) but I am unsure of how I can customise the tab bar to look like the attached screenshot.



Any tips or advice would be much appreciated, this problem has been driving me crazy.

Thanks

Hi Aron,

to have the radio button behaviour of a UITabBar and a complete new ui design, you need to implement your own classes.
But if you feel you can live with less, you can customize the UITabBar e.g. background color to fit into you design.
There are several links out there (e.g Stack Overflow)

Bernd

[bluemonkey]

Originally Posted by HHuckebein

Hi Aron,

to have the radio button behaviour of a UITabBar and a complete new ui design, you need to implement your own classes.
But if you feel you can live with less, you can customize the UITabBar e.g. background color to fit into you design.
There are several links out there (e.g Stack Overflow)

Bernd

Hi

Thanks for the reply Bernd, I am still struggling trying to get to grips with this and have also searched stackoverflow without much luck.

Basically on I need to have the blue buttons on the bottom of all my views which act like the Tab Bar Controller, any help or points you could offer would be great, so far i am just hitting dead ends.

Thanks

[HHuckebein]

Originally Posted by bluemonkey

Hi

Thanks for the reply Bernd, I am still struggling trying to get to grips with this and have also searched stackoverflow without much luck.

Basically on I need to have the blue buttons on the bottom of all my views which act like the Tab Bar Controller, any help or points you could offer would be great, so far i am just hitting dead ends.

Thanks

Well Aron, you should think about your reinventing the wheel.
Apple has spent a lot of efforts to create UI elements. In my opinion you should use Apple design elements as much as possible and only do some customizing (color etc.). User are happy if they recognize ui elements and know immediatly how the work.

Anyway, here is the link to an article which might help you
Changing Tint / Background color of UITabBar - Stack Overflow

http://www.lehigh.edu/~sol0/TabBarGradient.jpg

Good luck
Bernd