I found some iOS sliding menu controllers (like Path 2.0 , Facebook iOS), such as ViewDeck https://github.com/Inferis/ViewDeck, ECSlidingViewController https://github.com/edgecase/ECSlidingViewController. But they does not work like UITabbar Controler.
I want to make left side menu controller work like UITabbar, and it can kepp state for each controller for every mene item. It should not create a new controller when I tap a menu item. When I tap a menu item to display a controller (as "controller a") and scroll to someplace, then I switch to another menu item, and switch back to "controller a", it should show me 'controller a' display without changed, just like a tap a UITabbar item.
Thank you.
The below link might help you :
https://github.com/stefanoa/SASlideMenu
I use ViewDeck, but I do not have the problem you mentioned. The menu calls the main view to perform a transition, not to instantiate a new view. Therefore, I can implement a back option on the menu to return to the original view in the same state as it was left.
Here is my implementation. It's a subclass of a UINavigationController, and very easy to use.
https://github.com/aryaxt/iOS-Slide-Menu
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I have a 'main menu' view controller with links to different types of calculators. When I click on the link to a new calculator, the "main menu" can still be seen behind the new page. I would like to have the calculator completely replace the main menu when I click the link. I've tried modifying the segue on the storyboard, but cannot figure out how to fix this.
Storyboard settings
Purple outlines the main menu hiding behind the new view controller. I want this to go away.
You will need to embed the "Main Menu" into a Navigation Controller. If you don't do this, no matter what type of segue (which you refer to as a "link") you use, that outline will always be visible. To do this, select the Main Menu View controller from the storyboard, and click a little button on the bottom right of the screen looking like this:
and select "Navigation Controller".
Next, you can do one of the following:
Click on each segue from the main menu to each type of calculator, and in the attributes inspector, change the "Kind" (Which you currently have as "Present as Popover" to "Show".
Alternatively, if you like the way the segue slides up, and would just like it to be full screen,change the "Kind" setting to "Present Modally", and change the "Presentation" setting (under "Kind") to "Full Screen", for as many of the segues as you'd like.
Thanks for reading my question!
I have a 5-part tabbar which I use for app navigation, the center tab is covered by a UIButton and is slightly larger (much like the instagram app). This works fine.
But what I want is the far right tab bar item to show a overlaying menu when clicked. I don't want it to switch to a viewcontroller with a menu. I want the menu to be displayed no matter which of the other views you're in at the moment. So I want it to act much like a button which is in the tabbar. But I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Should I use a overlaying button over the tabbaritem or should I catch the tabbarclick, but how can I prevent the view from changing in that case?
Thanks you for any help!
You need to implement UITabBarDelegate. Then override tabBar:didSelectItem: and implement your custom displaying here. See below for reference
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITabBarDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html
Then i would just make a custom UIView and fade it in when that specific tagged UITabBarItem is pressed.
I would like to develop a ipad apps which has a menu at the top of the screen as well as at the bottom.
There are four buttons on the top of the screen, and there are 10+ buttons at the bottom tab bar, which can be scrolled horizontally.
How can I write the root view controller as a framework for this operation?
Should I customize the UIViewController class or UITabBarViewController?
Thanks
EDIT:
Sorry for being unclear. Let me restate my question.
Actually my app will have the following hierarchy.
'Front Page' is simply a page (view controller) for user to choose language. After choosing the language, 'Menu Page' view controller is displayed.
Starting from Menu page and ALL view controllers (VC) in below, the page layout is something like this.
As you can see, there are top menu and bottom menu. Clicking on the buttons the app will quickly jump to the corresponding view controller (3rd level in the tree, VC1,VC2,VC3 etc) . And for every view, there is a BACK button on every page, clicking which will back to the parent view controller.
I was thinking to implement this by using a tab bar view controller and a navigation view controller but I still do not have a clear idea how to implement this.
Or maybe should I just use the navigation view controller and hide the top tool bar except the back button, and display an overlay UIView as menu which is on top of all other UIViews.
Can somebody help me? Thanks.
Since this is the outermost container for my app I hope to do it properly at start..
Sorry for my long question.
If you really want to develop a framework for this logic .You need to create Manager, ViewController, View, DAO ,Model and other classes according to your needs.
I assume you want to add the buttons dynamically to the tabbar (and if it scrollable , it must be a scrollview).You can use Toolbar for upper view but then it won't be in sync with the bottom-view(visually).In that case you will have to create your own customized views to look like a tabbar.
The manager will basically keep a track of all the buttons and different states of events and action on the views and the same information can be accessed via a static method form the viewcontroller.
Well you have not detailed on your needs , so it's difficult to predict the entire architecture.
You need a container view controller to manage selection of VC's 1-4.
clicking which will back to the parent view controller
Parent view controller is used to mean the container vc in a container view controller scheme - I'm not sure that's what you mean in this comment. Where exactly does the back button go?
See this link for more info about container VC's.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers/CreatingCustomContainerViewControllers.html
You should be able to embed a tab bar controller in the content view of the container VC. Should be able to but it might be really buggy if there is a lot of communication between the child vc's.
The hard part is the back button. Basically it must be a button that goes back to VC 1-4 depending on which section you are in. The easiest way to do it is to make sure that when you cycle view controllers, pass the back button information as to which VC is the current child so it knows which VC to navigate to when you press it.
What I want is to create iPhone application.
Everything will be static data. What I want is show menu (as Menu 1, Menu 2, ...) one by one at the down side. Once I click on Menu 1, I will display details of Menu 1 on next screen.
Right now what I have done is created home page. There I have button saying Menu. Once I click on that button, I am going to another screen which is TableViewController. Any idea how to show menu buttons there?
Any idea or suggestion would be greatful.
Thanks in advance to all...
It seems that you are looking for UITabBarController, check the reference.
If you don't want use the UITabBarController you could insert your "home page" controller into a UINavigationController and push your viewcontrollers with some IBAction associated to your buttons, or otherwise display your controllers in modal way.
I have an application with a maybe-strange navigation scenario. I'll try to explain:
1) first scene: select an available item from a list
1.1) once selected, you navigate to a tab view allowing you to view/edit the various attributes
2) if the desired item isn't available, you may create a new one (by selecting a "+" bar button) which navigates to an alternate scene
2.1) there may be multiple scenes required to create the item, all scenes are simply pushed on the stack to allow the user to go back, select different options, etc.
2.2) once all scenes have been displayed and all attributes have been collected, the new "item" will be created and saved.
2.3) now, I want to automatically act as though the user selected this item from the beginning, that is, I want to pop all previous views off the stack and navigate directly into the tabs (step 1.1).
Does this make sense? Easy to do? Is there a better way to go about this? I'm using xCode 4.2 with storyboards.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
If you want (+) button on TabBar you should subclass UITabBar: Fo ex. TabBarPlus and set this class in storyboard.
But easier place (+) button on navigation bar.
The max number of displaying tabsart is 5 for iphone and 8 for ipad. If the there > number of tabs the last is "More" tab thet displaing list of other tubs in tableview. I you want displaying more tabs on tabbar then you should subclass UITabBar :)
If you want by back button on naigation bar switching beetwing Views that references with TabBar buttons you must create stack in code and hide backbutton of navigationbar and use castom left button of navigationbar.
The other navigation can be easy done in storyboard