Customizing tap bar controller

Question

Well i have two navigation controllers on a tab bar controller this is my code
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
navController = [[UINavigationController alloc]init];
tabBarController =[[UITabBarController alloc]init];
PersonListViewController *personListViewController = [[PersonListViewController alloc]initWithNibName:@"PersonListViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
recent = [[UINavigationController alloc]init];
[navController pushViewController:personListViewController animated:NO];
personListViewController.title=@"contacts";
recent.title=@"recent";
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:navController,recent,nil];
// Override point for customization after application launch
[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
and i want to customize the tab bar buttons with an image and a title. The title is already set up with the image now i know i have to use this part of code - (void)viewDidLoad {
UITabBarItem *item = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@“recent”
image:[UIImage imageNamed:@“contact.png”]
tag:0]; self.tabBarItem = item;
[item release];
But nothing shows up.
Message was edited by: ZaaBI_AlonSo
Message was edited by: ZaaBI_AlonSo

Answer 1

ZaaBI_AlonSo wrote:
i want to customize the tab bar buttons with an image and a title. ... i know i have to use this part of code ...
It might be more logical to make the tab bar items in applicationDidFinishLaunching:, but you can make them in the root view controller of the first tab if you prefer. However, the tab bar items need to belong to the controllers which are connected directly to the tab bar controller. In this case, those would be the navigation controllers:
// PersonListViewController.m
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
UITabBarItem *item = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"eggplant"
image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"contact.png"] tag:0];
self.navigationController.tabBarItem = item; // <-- corrected line
[item release];
- Ray