How to access the views of the MoreViewController and change their titles? - iphone

Question

on language switch within my App, I need to access the views of the MoreViewController in a TabBar and change their titles.
Could anyone pls tell me how to do that?
Your help is much appreciated.
Cols

Answer 1

Here are some snippets that might work for you. Note that all of the below is subject to break on each and every new iOS release at it is not meant to be done.
Customizing the More view title as itself as well as the title while it is being edited by the user.
- (void)customizeTitleViewWithNavigationItem:(UINavigationItem *)navigationItem
{
VASSERT(navigationItem != nil, #"invalid navigationItem supplied", navigationItem);
UILabel *titleView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
titleView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
titleView.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.0f];
titleView.text = navigationItem.title;
[titleView sizeToFit];
navigationItem.titleView = titleView;
[titleView release];
}
This needs to be implemented within the UINavigationController's delegate;
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController
willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
animated:(BOOL)animated
{
if (navigationController == tabBarController_.moreNavigationController)
{
if ([viewController isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UIMoreListController")])
{
[self customizeTitleViewWithNavigationItem:viewController.navigationItem];
}
else
{
NSLog(#"viewController (%#) does not seem to be a UIMoreListController", viewController);
}
}
else
{
NSLog(#"navigationController (%#) does not seem to be the moreNavigationController", navigationController);
}
}
This needs to be implemented within the UITabBarController's delegate;
- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)controller willBeginCustomizingViewControllers:(NSArray *)viewControllers
{
//get the second view of the upcoming tabbar-controller
UIView *editView = [controller.view.subviews objectAtIndex:1];
//did we get what we expected, which is a UITabBarCustomizeView?
if (editView != nil && [editView isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(#"UITabBarCustomizeView")])
{ //yes->get the navigation-view
UIView *navigationView = [editView.subviews objectAtIndex:0];
//is that a navigationBar?
if (navigationView != nil && [navigationView isKindOfClass:[UINavigationBar class]])
{ //yes->...
UINavigationBar *navigationBar = (UINavigationBar *)navigationView;
[self customizeTitleViewWithNavigationItem:navigationBar.topItem];
}
else
{
NSLog(#"the navigationView (%#) does not seem to be a navigationBar", navigationView);
}
}
else
{
NSLog(#"the editView (%#) does not seem to be a UITabBarCustomizeView", editView);
}
}

Answer 2

I was able to change the title of one of the tabBar items for my 6th view controller (the last one in the more list) with the following code:
NSArray *vcs = [(UITabBarController *)self.window.rootViewController viewControllers];
[[vcs.lastObject tabBarItem] setTitle:#"New Title"];
Is this what you want to do?
After Edit: To change these titles after they are set up the first time, you need to re-set the viewControllers property of the tabBar controller. In this code example, I connected a button in my 6th view controller to an action method that changes the titles of 3 of my controllers, 2 in the more list and one in the regular list.
-(IBAction)changeNames:(id)sender {
UITabBarController *tbc = (UITabBarController *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate].window.rootViewController;
NSArray *vcs = tbc.viewControllers;
[[vcs.lastObject tabBarItem] setTitle:#"New Title"];
[[[vcs objectAtIndex:4] tabBarItem] setTitle:#"New VC"];
[[[vcs objectAtIndex:3] tabBarItem] setTitle:#"New VC2"];
tbc.viewControllers = tbc.viewControllers;
}