I'm having trouble in customising a tab bar controller. Please understand that I'm not allowed to post image since I joined just before. My app has a tabbar controller as a root view controller. Only the first tab is connected to a navigation view with a three-level hierarchy (1st Table view - 2nd Table view - Detail view).
Like the 'run keeper' app's UI, I want a 'shortcut' button at the center of my tabbar that show the (instantiated) detail view of the first tab. In other word, please imagine an iPhone Music app, with adding a 'Now Playing' button in tabbar.
For UI of the tab, I added a button as a subview of root view controller upon the center of tab bar. It worked, but I failed to implement other things; methods for the 'shortcut behaviour.
After touching the center button, the steps I suppose to happen are like these:
(i) to show the first tab
(ii) move to the 1st table view
(iii) select a cell from the 1st table view (depending on a number that is saved before)
(iv) select a cell from the 2nd table view (also depending on a number)
Sadly, the only step I successfully implemented is step (i), by tabbar controller's method
[self setSelectedIndex:0];
Since the touch from tabbar item [0] and the center button should be distinguished (by the navigation view controller), I add a boolean variable in appDelegate.m. So The navigation view know whether it's shown from tabbar item [0], or the center button.
Still, I couldn't find a way to do the three steps (ii),(iii), and (iv), in the navigation controller. Well, for (iii) and (iv), actually they are doing the same thing, and I partly figured out by post like this, though I used
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"showPlaces" sender:self];
instead of
[self.tableViewForSchools.delegate tableView:self.tableViewForSchools didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPathSchool];
Well, since the step (ii) doesn't work well, I'm not sure I'm doing right in the following steps.
In short, I wonder if I could...
Q. force a navigation view controller to show the top master view.
Q. Or, there's other ways to do the same thing, to show a detail view by touching a button in tabbar embedding a navigation controller.
