Add a UIButton as a subview to a UITabBar

Question

I am trying to implement a hideable UITabBar in my app. I've set up all the animations, and they work very well. I'm just having an issue getting my UIButton "pull-tab" to show the tab bar. It is not responding to the touch event UIControlEventTouchUpInside. I add the pull-tab to the UITabBar in the UITabBarController:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
//Add pull
    pullButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"TabBarPull.png"];
    pullButton.frame = CGRectMake(self.tabBar.frame.size.width - image.size.width, -image.size.height + 3, image.size.width, image.size.height);
    [pullButton setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [pullButton addTarget:self action:@selector(pullBarTapped:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    pullButton.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    [self.tabBar addSubview:pullButton];
}

Here is what the tab bar looks like open and closed:

Edit: I've determined that the problem is because the button falls outside the UITabBar's frame. Looks like I'm going to have to put the button outside of the UITabBar... Animation nightmare.

Answer 1

You can still add the UIButton to the UITabBarController's main view, not in the UITabBar though.... [myUITabBarController.view addSubview:pullButton]