Tabs as buttons on UITabBar

Hi,
there's any way to make the tabs in an UITabBar behavior like buttons? I mean, normally, when one tab is selected it highlights and stays selected and highlighted until a new tab is selected and steal the focus. Everytime a tab is selected it generates an event. If the user clicks a tab that is already selected it will never generate an event.
What I need is a tab that can be unselected, unhighlighted and that can generate an event, even if it is already selected. Is that possible?

As far as generating an event even when selected, here's one way to do it. The trick is getting access to the tab bar controller's tab bar so you can act as its delegate (the tab bar controller API doc says "you should never need to, nor should you, access the tab bar directly", but I can't figure out any other way).
In your UITabBarController subclass:
-(void)loadView
[super loadView];
UIView *tabBar = [self rotatingFooterView];
if ([tabBar isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]]) {
((UITabBar *)tabBar).delegate = self;
- (void)tabBar:(UITabBar *)tabBar didSelectItem:(UITabBarItem *)item
// this is called when the user taps a tab bar button,
// whether it's current or not

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