Tab bar controller selectedIndex or SelectedViewController accessor

Question

I have created a tabbar based application which contains, let say, 3 tabs. In my first tab, I have 3 UIButtons. on clicking button 1, a new viewcontroller 1 is loaded and the tab 1 is highlighted as selected. On clicking button 2, a different view is loaded (Viewcontroller 2) and tab 2 should be highlighted as selected tab (Remember, this viewcontroller 2 is not the root view controller of tab 2) and on clicking button 3, again a new view is shown (viewcontroller 3) and tab 3 should be highlighted as selected (Remember, this viewcontroller 3 is not the root view controller of tab 3). So, what I want to do is, I want a particular tab to be shown as selected (or highlighted), but dont want to load its root view controller. I have tried using tabbarcontroller.selectedindex = 1 on clicking of button 1, but it went in vain. Because what happened was tab 1 got selected and the view being shown to me was not viewcontroller 2. Instead it was the root view controller of tab 2. Somebody pls get me out of this mess....

Answer 1

If that is indeed your requirement, the best way is to create a 'fake' tab bar using custom uiimageview. You will need three imageview and change the images accordingly as you tap the buttons.