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UINavigation Controller before Tab Bar Controller

Ben Coffman — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:29:19 GMT

Turns out this isn't too hard, just a few simple things to understand.
1. If you are creating a TabBar Controller, the TabBar Controller will always have to be the root view.
2. Once you know the last step the next step is to see what view or xib the TabBar controller calls first. Once you know what xib or view gets called first go to the view or xib's view controller code. In that code create function

- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated { }

Within the above function you can inject the navigation view, but first you must tell the navigation view what the first view you want to be displayed, done like this:

PersonalInfoVC *personalInfoVC = [[PersonalInfoVC alloc] initWithNibName:@"PersonalInfoVC" bundle:nil]; UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:personalInfoVC]; [self.tabBarController presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];

Next in each subsequent view in the navigation controller you can call the view after it like so

DepositDetailsVC *depositDetailsVC = [[DepositDetailsVC alloc] initWithNibName:@"DepositDetailsVC" bundle:nil]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:depositDetailsVC animated:YES];

Finally when you are done with the flow of the injected navigation controller run this code to go back to your original TabBar controller

[self.navigationController
dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];


Easy enough. :)

blackberry simulator no internet, blackberry simulator internet

Ben Coffman — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:57:10 GMT

Problem:
Internet won't work with Blackberry simulator.

Solution:
This one was a crappy crappy fix. I hated it largely because I hate Blackberry. Maybe this will prevent everyone from having the same issue. I will list the things you need to do in order to get the simulator to work in windows.

All of the install packages I'm about to list can be found with a simple Google search, I recommend always getting the latest versions.

JDK
BlackBerry_Email_MDS
Blackberry Simulator (which ever simulator you want to simulate)

Install all of these in the order listed above
Now you need to add and Environment variable

Click start button

Right click "computer"

Click "properties"

If it's windows 7, Click "Advanced System Settings" then click "envrionment variables", If it's XP click the "Advanced" tab then click "Environment Variables"

In "System variables" Click "New" and in "Variable Name" put "JAVA_HOME" and for "Variable value" put the path to your java folder
It should be something like this "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24"