Doing the same project in code, no IB, is left as an execise for the reader, right?

I'm not sure why this would be hard, since it's explained quite clearly in the View Controllers document.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/

It's actually easier.
After having your TabBarController, set the required view controller's class to navigation controller, and just drag a generic table view controller directly on the tab bar controller window and you're done.

is the finished code available somewhere?

-bowerbird

Alex: Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Ash: Can you point to the precise page where Apple describes this?

Rudifa: Yes :-) Also, check out TheElements code that you can download from Apple as an example.

Bowerbird: no, but I'll see if I can make that happen

Got a couple of hints from Joe Heck on this app:

I don't need to explicitly identify the datasource and delegate protocols in BooksTableViewController; that comes by subclassing UITableViewController (just a small change, but worth noting).

Also: I don't need the BooksNavController class. I don't actually use it for anything, so I could have created a generic navigation controller without subclassing it, and used the navigationController property in the BooksTableViewController to access it (so I don't need to explicitly create the class and a reference to it in the table view controller). This means I can replace the lines (in BooksTableViewController):

ORBooksAppDelegate *delegate = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[delegate.booksNavController pushViewController:bookDetailViewController animated:YES];

with just:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:bookDetailViewController animated:YES];

A bit simpler and probably better coding style.

Thanks Joe.

AWESOME tutorial! Thank you sooooooo much!

I followed your tutorial and have my app working correctly. My next step however is that I'd like for when the user selects each row they are taken to a separate view. Currently with your tutorial you have all the clickable rows going to the same view.

Do you have a tutorial for this?

Thanks again!!!!

I guess what I mean is I'd like to parse an XML file and the data that's loaded into a view is determined by the row that's clicked. I'm just completely stumped on this...

A huge help in getting started building a UI with IB - thank you!

Great tutorial! Now what if I want to allow the individual rows in the UITableView to be clicked so they are each pushed to a new view (with its own data)?

I realize this is the section of your code to work with (and I believe another controller and its xib must be built per row):
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NSInteger row = [indexPath row];
if (self.bookDetailViewController == nil) {
BookDetailViewController *aBookDetail = [[BookDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"BookDetailView" bundle:nil];
self.bookDetailViewController = aBookDetail;
[aBookDetail release];
}
bookDetailViewController.title = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [booksArray objectAtIndex:row]];

[self.navigationController pushViewController:bookDetailViewController animated:YES];
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How would I go about doing this?

Thanks Elisabeth for this great tutorial!

Amazing tutorial thanks so much! I was struggling on exactly this issue and found your vidcast on Google. It was a lifesaver. Thanks much!

Hi Beth,

Thanks, this was a really useful walk through. Your comments as you coded really solidified my newly learnt thinking about iPhone app development and your tutorial was much more on my level, versus the documentation. Thanks very much !

Ben

Thank you for an amazing tutorial....

Been struggling with that for a while :)

The best voice for an iphone app tutorial i have heard so far also

Good work :)

Love the latest tutorial. Thanks a ton. Now if I wanted to show info. like name, address and phone number on the detail view (instead of an image) how would I go about altering the code to do that?

Cheers!

Thank you so much for this Tutorial. I'm new in iPhone Development and it takes days to trying implementing this. After watching your Tutorial its so easy.

Thanks again.

Elisabeth,

I spent the whole day trying to put a navigation bar inside a tab bar controller. And when I decided to search for help, you appeared on the first page. You saved my day. Everything worked perfectly.

Thanks!

Joao

This definitely save me a great deal of time. I was combining a Tableview with navigation bar with the a Tab bar... your tutorial was great. thanks. Chuck

Thanks for exactly the right approach. It got me past a sticking point.

When I went past this tutorial to push other view controllers onto the nav stack, I got messed up by a typo in Apple's commented code (which leaves out "animated: YES)" at the end of the push code, and leads to a cryptic error. Come on, Apple!

If Elisabeth could lead us through bringing in simple flat database files via SQLite to populate a table view without the elaborate Core Data code, I'd buy all her books!

That's just brilliant, thanks a lot.
It helps a lot to see you in action, and to get the repetitive stuff about releasing the properties or connecting the views in IB

thanks elisabeth! i was trying really hard to combine both tabbar and nav controller before i saw ur page but failed to do so. U reali saved me a lot of time. hugs.

Thanks Elizabeth for this wonderful tutorial. Most of the examples/tutorials on the net, explain each thing separately. I got burned trying to combine them in one app. Here I got exactly what I was looking for.... tabbar with nav bar with table view. Could not have asked for a better simpler tutorial!

I have a another issue now. I am following the same steps you mentioned in my project. I noticed that viewDidAppear in root TableViewController is not getting called when I go to the screen initially, or when returning back to the screen from child screen. I have put in break point and fail to see what I am doing wrong. However, I did notice that if I switch to another tab and then come back, everything works great, including viewDidAppear that gets called.

I did see this behavior in your sample app.

Any ideas???

p.s. This is driving me crazy. ;-

Peter.

Very good tutorial on combining these controllers - Navigation and Tab Bar. Most iPhone development books that I've read so far handle them independently and then you're left with figuring how to incorporate both within the same app. Great job!!

Where was the vidcast on Google that explains how to set up different views for each cell/book when you click on the button?

Hi elizabeth yes must agree with everyone people like you don't know just how help you are. I spent ages creating a tabbarcontroller that has navigation controllers and table views using ib it took me a long while your explainations here actually clear up a lot of my misconceptions with how I did it. My biggest problem was with setting button on the navbar that can react with my code via the delegate but I think what you have said might cure it can't wait to try have you done any other vid cast? Be interested to view x

With help such as this tutorial, I successfully completed my first 3 apps, and am working on more. Thanks again to Beth for posting this.

In reviewing it, I am confused about your sizing of the view window when using the status bar, nav bar, and tab bar. As I understand it, these are 20, 44, and 49 pixels high, a total of 113 pixels of 480. That leaves 367 pixels, yet in the video you say to size the view as 346 pixels high. Why is that?

Beth, thanks a bunch for these Tutorials. They did help me kickstart my iphone knowledge. What an unfriendly developer environment! No wonder why the iphone is not getting any major corporate adoption. But my son loves it for video games !

Also wanted to mention that you have a beautiful voice. You should really come with more tutorials like these ones.

Thanks Elizabeth for the tutorial(s). Thanks to share your work. I can use now IB for this, very helpful.

I tried to add a "search display controller & search bar" following the TableSearch example from apple. But the structure is quite different. Can you give me a way to implement a search function ?

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for lovely explanation . I have a question " None of my pictures " Default.png" or two other images for button are getting displayed . Instead i am seeing just
black shadow . Please help .
Thanks

Thanks all for your comments, I'm slowly attempting to catch up and respond to you.

Nice tutorial. I need some help accessing navigation bar in this model. How do I change the color or title of navigation bar here ?

Elisabeth,
This is hands down the best iPhone tutorial on the web. You are really good at this and should consider doing an in depth series. I know books are your thing with O'Reilly, but honestly, books and newspapers are becoming a thing of the past. You have the chops to cross over so get your publisher to foot the bill and get cranking. I think you'll find there is a big market for it. Anyway, thanks so much, I learned alot!

As a matter of fact I found that link on my own shortly after I left you the message (thanks for the quick reply, just saw it today). I then promptly signed up for Safari Books online and had viewed the first 3 sections by 6AM the next morning! I had to work or I would have joined you online for the last installment. It seemed like forever before they posted it this past monday. In the meantime I got to compare your work to that of your peers on Safari Online (you're still the best :) ).

One of the viewers asked a question about the video link in the player app (it didn't make sense to you the way he had phrased it) and I think he was looking for a way to link to video stored on the phone as apposed to the website (faster load, less chance of breaking). The thought had crossed my mind as well.

I was wondering how I might do that. Is it possible to create a video resource like an icon in the resources folder? Perhaps, if I kept the vids separated amongst the other iTunes media and linked to them there, I could then make the content an add-on sale... How would these options change your url code?

MP

PS Please Go Native ASAP!