iPhone: how to badge a TabBatItem?

I packaged a rough and dirty sample. You can download it at the following URL (to be removed in a week or so 😉 )

http://www.agitelsoftware.com/iDesigner.zip

Let me know if this helps. Basically it is what I tried to explain ...

Phil

Happy it helped 😉

To read the badge status you may use just the same :

- (IBAction)getBadge:(id)sender {
 iDesignerAppDelegate *ad = ((iDesignerAppDelegate *)([[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]));
 UITabBarItem *tbi = (UITabBarItem *)[ad.tabBar.items objectAtIndex:1];
 if ([tbi.badgeValue length] != 0) {
 UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Info" message:@"Badge exists" delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil];
 [alert show];
 [alert release]; 
 }
}

"badgeValue" is basically a read/write NSString ...

Phil

Congratulations 😉

Apple won't even know about the 29 warnings, they only check if the app works, does what it's advertised for, complies with the interface standards ...

But may be you should review those warnings anyway because they're often the sign of a potential trouble.

Yet many warnings come from the XIB compiler claiming that checking the Bounce Scroll option is meaningless on OS 2.0 ... no big deal ...

Distributing an application is not difficult, it's long !

Follow carefully every single step described in the portal and you should be fine.
Common errors are no 57x57 icon, pictures for the appstore not in jpg format ...

Once submitted you'll have to wait from a couple of hours up to a couple of weeks before being accepted or rejected. It's shorter nowadays than it used to be at the beginning !

Regards
Phil

Just created an iChat account 😉
Let me contact you that way ...

Your application gotta be approved some day if it doesn't use private frameworks, is offencive or duplicates some system features. If rejected they tell you why, you make the corrections and submit again 😉