ios - I'd like to have a UITabBarController, with no UITabBar -

i'm building akin uisplitview on ipad. "master" panel have buttons, instead of list.

the detail panel have @ 7 different screens (corresponding buttons in master pane).

so, i'd build uitabbarcontroller in interfacebuilder (for no other reason it's easy view). each button press in "master" view tell tab-bar controller show different panel.

can done, or approach silly? suppose create container view, , swap view-controllers in , out. using uitabbarcontroller in ib makes obvious (visually) these views connected.

thanks advice.

i did same thing, unable hide tab bar in clean , legal way.

so, decided change approach: use uitabbar in storyboard "placeholder" connections , fill viewcontrollers array of splitcontroller, when loading splitcontroller, load programmatically uitabbarcontroller storyboard, copy content of viewcontrollers array and, finally, dismiss uitabbarcontroller.

with approach have manage transition between vc , another, have:

• the possibility set viewcontrollers storyboard (that best part imho)
• the possibility use tabbaritem icon menu controller

so, more schematic:

• create splitcontroller instance nsarray* viewcontrollers instance variable
• you can add initwithtabbarcontroller: instance method splitcontroller , pass programmatically loaded tabbarcontroller instance.
• in initwithtabbarcontroller method, fill viewcontrollers array using tabbarcontroller.viewcontrollers property. can "trash" tab bar controller instance, don't need it
• you have manage transition 1 controller yourself. this, suggest use main view container view controller.

i think approach have clean , readable storyboard, i'm updating projects use it.

regards fabio