Storyboard - UITabBarController

Question

I was playing around with iOS 5 and storyboards today. I currently have it so that the main storyboards starts with a uitabbarcontroller then a navigationviewcontroler and f

Answer 1

For me I can access the tabbar using self.navigationController.parentViewController; This always return the tabbar controller.

Answer 2

Your app delegate will have a window property. That can be used to get a pointer to the storyboard's initial view controller (which will be your UITabBarController), like this example from one of my app delegates application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

UITabBarController *tabController =
   (UITabBarController *)self.window.rootViewController;
tabController.selectedIndex =
   [defaults integerForKey:kOptionLastTabSelectedKey];
tabController.delegate = self;