How to set a tab bar item's title from a child view controller in interface builder?

Question

I know programmatically I can set a child view controller's title and it will updated its related tab bar item's title but how do I set that up in Interface Builder?

Answer 1

Interface Builder doesn't have an exposed property for a view controllers title but it does allow you to set properties in the "User Defined Runtime Attributes" section under Identity Inspector tab. Just set the key path to title, type to String, and Value to your desired title. Also check out Apple's documentation. Or check out this blog for a visual walkthrough: http://ios-blog.co.uk/tutorials/user-defined-runtime-attributes/

You can also have finer grain control by setting these different properties:

self.navigationItem.title = @"my title"; //sets navigation bar title.

self.tabBarItem.title = @"my title"; //sets tab bar title.

self.title = @"my title"; //sets both of these.