self.title sets navigationController and tabBarItem's title? Why?

iphone uinavigationcontroller tabbarcontroller
runmad picture runmad · Oct 8, 2009 · Viewed 36.5k times · Source

I do this in a UIViewController for one of my tabs:

self.title = @"Welcome";

However, it's overwriting whatever I have for the tabBarItem. I have tried:

self.tabBarItem.title = @"Home";

and

[self.tabBarItem initWithTitle:@"Home" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iconHome.png"] tag:0];

But still, self.title overwrites the tabBarItem, regardless of whether I am trying the two latter pieces of code after the title has been set. The code even runs without errors, but the self.tabBarItem.title or initWithTitle doesn't do anything?

Answer

runmad picture runmad · Oct 20, 2009

OK, I figured it out! Here's what I am doing:

self.title = @"Title for TabBarItem"; // TabBarItem.title inherits the viewController's self.title
self.navigationItem.title = @"Title for NavigationBar";

the navigationBar would inherit self.title, unless otherwise set using self.navigationItem.title

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