Nesting UITabBar into UINavigation Controller

Question

Hiya, I would like to know if there's an example of this anywhere. Basically I would like to push the UITabBar, and keeping with apple's guidelines I can only do this by placing the UITabBar(not the controller) in a viewController. Examples of this are in the Music selection on your iPhone/iTouch when you hit the "Now Playing" nav item, notice the tab bar pushes over.
This is somewhat of the flow I'm trying to accomplish
-----> Table (cell 1)----> Detail View
|
Navigation Controller ----> UITabBar-|----------> view 2
|
-----> view 3
So when the app launches I'm greeted with my tab bar and when I select a cell from the tableView the detail view is pushed onto the stack resulting in a possible customized button bar at the bottom of that view.
Another good example of this functionality is the NYTimes app (it's free if you want to check it out)
Now I got the basics of this running, but I'm getting crashes when trying to wire IBOutlets to the tab items in IB. Would appreciate some insight on this.
Thx much!

Answer 1

Well I've dabbled a little more since posting, so the error is different. It's inconsistent tho, since sometimes it just quits on startup. Here's what I have so far
AppDelegate.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface AppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate>
UIWindow *window;
UINavigationController *navigationController;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWindow *window;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UINavigationController *navigationController;
@end
AppDelegate.m
#import "AppDelegate.h"
@implementation AppDelegate
@synthesize window;
@synthesize navigationController;
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application
// Override point for customization after application launch
// Configure and show the window
[window addSubview:[navigationController view]];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
- (void)applicationWillTerminate:(UIApplication *)application
// Save data if appropriate
- (void)dealloc {
[navigationController release];
[window release];
[super dealloc];
@end
TabViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface TabViewController : UIViewController <UITabBarDelegate>
IBOutlet UITabBar *tabBar;
IBOutlet UITabBarItem *featuresTabBarItem;
UIViewController *selectedViewController;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITabBar *tabBar;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITabBarItem *featuresTabBarItem;
@property (nonatomic, retain) UIViewController *selectedViewController;
@end
TabViewController.m
#import "TabViewController.h"
#import "FeaturesTabViewController.h"
@implementation TabViewController
@synthesize selectedViewController;
@synthesize tabBar;
@synthesize featuresTabBarItem;
// The designated initializer. Override to perform setup that is required before the view is loaded.
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
if (self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil]) {
// Custom initialization
FeaturesTabViewController *featuresTabViewController = [[FeaturesTabViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"FeaturesTabView" bundle:nil];
[self.view addSubview:FeaturesTabViewController.view];
self.selectedViewController = featuresTabViewController;
[featuresTabViewController release];
return self;
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
tabBar.selectedItem = featuresTabBarItem;
[super viewDidLoad];
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
- (void)viewDidUnload {
// Release any retained subviews of the main view.
// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
- (void)dealloc
[tabBar release];
[featuresTabBarItem release];
[selectedViewController release];
[super dealloc];
@end
And the FeaturesTabView .h/.m are generic
Thx for any help!
Message was edited by: lildragn