Understanding tab bars

[ryubr]

Thanks cutemaster and Andy

[Mr.Magoo]

Hi,

Very useful. Thanks.

Is it possible with setTabBarForPage function to add one of the OS standard icons (see below) ?

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[sunny]

not yet, but that will be added later

[eras3r]

If you add more than 5 icons, instead of the 5th the icon "more" is shown.
Is there a way to translate change the text "more" in order to localize it? If so, where do we have to modify the script?

Eras3r

[sunny]

@eras3r: open your APP_NAME_info.plist file and add "Localization native development region" key with value "English", "Spanish", etc
@Mr.Magoo: added functionality to use standard icons, instead of image name you will need to specify number of the icon in set, for example:

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tabbar.setTabBarForPage("1.html", "1", "6"); // use 6th icon from the list (starting from 1, not zero) so the icon used is History 

Here is the list:
UITabBarSystemItemFavorites, // this is 1st, not 0!
UITabBarSystemItemFeatured,
UITabBarSystemItemTopRated,
UITabBarSystemItemRecents,
UITabBarSystemItemContacts,
UITabBarSystemItemHistory, // we used this one in example
UITabBarSystemItemBookmarks,
UITabBarSystemItemSearch,
UITabBarSystemItemDownloads,
UITabBarSystemItemMostRecent,
UITabBarSystemItemMostViewed

[Element]

I think there's an easier solution for this issue: the ability to hide NKTabBarController.

I think the intent is to have NKTabBarController provide the main divisions for an app. Applications should then use NKNavigationControllers to manage content within each division of the NKTabBarController.

This all makes sense except for one circumstance: Some of those divisions may contain content that should occupy the entire screen. Let's say one of my Tabs is "Movies". When I click that tab, it highlights and the display shows a list of movies. When I click a movie, it should take over the entire screen and obscure the NKTabBarController.

It's important to emphasize that I don't want to loose the structure that NKTabBarController provides, but I just keep running into situations where it's in the way momentarily. I need to be able to hide() and show() the NKTabBarController without destroying it.

By the way, I tried using destroy() and it seems to interfere with NKNavigationContrtoller. I can't destroy NKTabBarController without also taking away NKNavigationController.

[HalfMoon]

the ability to hide NKTabBarController.

That would be really handy - like you say for movies or image galleries. If there isn't one in there already, file a feature request.

[Element]

It's in there:

http://www.nimblekit.com/bugs/view.php?id=416