Section 3.3 Tab Title Question

I’m on section 3.3, adding the UITabBarController. When I run rake, the app pops up in the simulator as shown in the picture on page 36. However, taking any action—including tapping “Top Color” changes the title of the top_controller from “Top Color” to “Detail”.

Am I making a mistake, or is there something about iOS that changes titles back to their defaults (that needs to be overridden)?

Maybe this is addressed later in the book but I didn’t see it when quickly glancing through the remainder of the chapter.

Hey Matt,

I just got notified of this, sorry for the delay. Can you compare your source to the code in http://pragprog.com/titles/carubym/source_code ?

Specifically the ./code/ColorViewer_tab project, I can’t reproduce exactly the behavior you’re experiencing :(

I had this same problem and after checking the source code (code/controllers/ColorViewer_tab) it appears that the line self.title = "Detail" is in the wrong method in the book.

Page 33 in the book says to put this line in the ColorDetailController’s viewDidLoad method where as the source code has it in the initWithColor method.

I switched mine and it worked as expected.