Programmatically pressing a UITabBar button in Xcode

Question

Sorry for the newbie question. I have a UITabBar in my main window view as well as an array of UINavigationControllers for each Tab. The structure is similar to the iPod a

Answer 1

For this, You just need to take UITabBar controller -

.h File -

UITabBarController *_pTabBarController;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet  UITabBarController *_pTabBarController;

.m File -
// synthesize it 
@synthesize  _pTabBarController;    

At initial load 

// You can  write one function to add tabBar - 

// As you have already mentioned you have created an array , if not 

_pTabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
    NSMutableArray *localViewControllersArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:4];
    UINavigationController *theNavigationController;

    _pController = [[Controller alloc] initStart];  
    _pController.tabBarItem.tag = 1;
    _pController.title = @"Baranches";
    theNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:_pController];
    theNavigationController.tabBarItem.tag = 1;
    theNavigationController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"icon_branches.png"];
    [localViewControllersArray addObject:theNavigationController];
    [theNavigationController release];

than you can set index as per your needs

self._pTabBarController.selectedIndex = 0; // as per your requirements