UITabBar and rotating views, animation?

Animating view switching was a bit tricky because the TabBarController only receives a "didSelectViewController" event and no sort of "willSelectViewController" with old/new as parameters. So what I did was force all the ones not selected to fade out, and force the one selected to fade in. A bit hacky, but it works:

-(void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController*) tbc didSelectViewController:(UIViewController*) newSelection
{
 [UIView beginAnimations:@"TabFadeIn" context:nil];
 [UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0];
 for( UIViewController* vc in tbc.viewControllers )
 vc.view.alpha = (vc==newSelection) ? 1 : 0;
 [UIView commitAnimations];
}

Inside the method "didRotateToInterfaceOrientation..."
- you have to reset the frame of the view minus tabbar to be larger (don't forget to take into account the status bar)
- you have to hide the tabbar by setting .hidden=YES or animating it out of the screen, or both.

- Jae

Could you please provide an example of how you fixed this by Subclassing?

I'm trying to implement shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation in a couple of viewControllers in my TabBar application but this is not working.

I am also having the issue now, how to fix this? Thanks.

Are shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation suppose to be past all the way down to the middle controllers? Say you have tabbarcontroller->navbarcontroller->tableviewcontroller. Will the table view controller receives shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation? Because mine doesnt, only the top controller (tab bar one) does....

so say if I want to control different views being able to rotate or not, I have to set some sort of global variables and have that checked by the tabbarcontroller? Seems kind of dumb....