Comments on: Change iPhone/iPod app orientation within a UITabBarController

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:26:22 +0000

Bug filed with Apple. Includes minimal test case app. :(

http://openradar.appspot.com/7139857

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:46:04 +0000

Greetings! I’ve got this working like a charm … except for the cases where the view controller in question originated from within the MoreNavigationController. Then things go all haywire.

See this (over-descriptive) thread on Stack Overflow for the full scoop. Any ideas? :(

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1269704/uitabbarcontroller-moreviewcontroller-and-the-holy-grail-of-device-rotation

By: Vic

Vic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:30:46 +0000

I implemented RotatingTabBarController in my app. It works fine for change of orientation. But it causes a new problem.

I have more than 5 tab pages. iPhone automatically adds the “More” button (handled by moreNavigationController). The “Mote” view shows an Edit button on top right. It is supposed to allow users to rearrange the tab icons. But the edit button no longer works.

Is there a way to fix that?

By: Daniel Drysdale

Daniel Drysdale — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:03:21 +0000

This post fixed an issue I wasted a few hours on last night, I should have googled earlier :(

Thanks for the clear and concise directions….

By: some joe

some joe — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:55:12 +0000

UITabBarController calls shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation: on all of its child view controllers in order, breaking as soon as one returns NO. If all your view controllers return YES for a given orientation, it will autorotate.

It seems a little limiting that the UITabBarController can’t rotate to the best supported orientation when a tab button item is selected, but there it is.

By: Adam Freeman

Adam Freeman — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:39:59 +0000

This is yet another lame thing about the iphone sdk. I figured that out too but only after hours of frustration. Wish I had read this first …

By: SamJ

SamJ — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:07:18 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for the tutorial. It was really helpful. However, I am facing one problem. I have two tabs on my controller. What I did was I clicked the second tab and changed the orientation. But when I click the first tab, the orientation is still the original one. I am not able to understand why. Also, how can I catch the event when the user selects a tab? I tried applying the UITabBarDelegate protocol, set the tabbar delegate to the appdelegate class and have coded the
-(void)tabBar:(UITabBar *)tabBar didSelectItem:(UITabBarItem *)item

method in the appdelegate class. But this method is not getting called.

By: Arash

Arash — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:57:30 +0000

@QP Here is the Apple doc for hidesBottomBarWhenPushed. If you would like to see it in action, I recommend looking at my Prayer Book app in the app store. When you select a prayer, I set hidesBottomBarWhenPushed to YES in my UIViewController subclass' init method, and the tab bar disappears as expected when pushed.

By: QP

QP — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:25:58 +0000

Everywhere I’ve seen references the “hidesBottomBarWhenPushed” but as far as I can tell this is just a myth. This value seems to only be recognized for UINavigationControllers. No one that I’ve seen has been able to demonstrate working code with UIViewControllers and UITabBarControllers.

Very frustrating and the propagation of this stock answer (no offense intended) has just complicated finding a solution.

If you (or anyone else out there) can demonstrate this working in code, then there are hundreds of threads out there that would benefit from your insight!

By: Rust

Rust — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:33:22 +0000

ah, wish that were true. Some of my UITableViews get re-framed. Others do not. I have no idea why as they are set up with resizing masks and such. The documentation is certainly less than stellar. I also will add that I think some of it is wrong. In addition, I believe the sdk platform is full of bugs.

Thanks for this insight. I may try to crawl down this path to accomplish what seems like such a simple, simple thing – hide the tab bar when a certain view is focused so that the user cannot navigate to the table views that refuse to resize themselves in landscape. Grrrrrrr.

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