UITabBarController (kind of) inside a Modal child view

I've been playing quite a bit with MonoTouch - love it

It won't be a long term solution I feel (I *think* Silverlight is coming to the iPhone soon!) but it is a good solution for me right now.

One of the problems I've had is trying to get a UITabBarController to work in a child View - basically I just can't work out how to do this in Interface Builder.

To work around it I tried this code instead - using a UITabBar and custom linking code rather than using the "full" UITabBarController.

public override void ViewDidLoad ()

{

base.ViewDidLoad ();

childOne.Text = "one";

childTwo.Text = "two";

mainView.AddSubview(childOne.View);

mainView.AddSubview(childTwo.View);

mainView.BringSubviewToFront(childOne.View);

tabbar.SelectedItem = tabitemOne;

tabbar.Delegate = new MyUITabBarDelegate(this);

}

class MyUITabBarDelegate : UITabBarDelegate

{

TabViewController tvc;

public MyUITabBarDelegate (TabViewController _tvc)

{

tvc = _tvc;

}

public override void ItemSelected (UITabBar tabbar, UITabBarItem item)

{

if (item.Tag == 0)

{

tvc.mainView.BringSubviewToFront(tvc.childOne.View);

//while (tvc.mainView.Subviews.Count() > 0)

// tvc.mainView.Subviews[0].RemoveFromSuperview();

//tvc.mainView.AddSubview(tvc.childOne.View);

}

else

{

tvc.mainView.BringSubviewToFront(tvc.childTwo.View);

//while (tvc.mainView.Subviews.Count() > 0)

// tvc.mainView.Subviews[0].RemoveFromSuperview();

//tvc.mainView.AddSubview(tvc.childTwo.View);

}

}

}