Using AwesomeMenu with a UITabBarController tabBar - ios

Question

I have been playing around with adding an AwesomeMenu button to my UITabBar. My plan is to have the icons arc above the tab bar with looks pretty cool. I have played with it a bit and have been able to get the icons to display. I to call the menu, I just used the same button that I already had, added an AwesomeMenu behind the tab bar (so the icons bounce up from behind) then hid the Awesome menu. I added an action to my button in the tab bar to simulate a tap on the awesome menu, as well as show the AwesomeMenu, which then shows the buttons perfectly. The problem is that when I try to tap on any of these button, nothing happens. I assume that this is a problem because they are above the UITabBar, but I cannot be sure. I have added a normal AwesomeMenu in the middle of a blank view controller with the same set up as I have on the tab bar (except being on a tab bar and being called by another button) and it works. When I press a button, they work. Based on this, I figure that it is a problem with the buttons being displayed above the UITabBar or maybe simply the way the buttons work. Any help would be very much appreciated!
Here is how I add the button to the UITabBar (pretty standard):
UIImage *storyMenuItemImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Fill.png"];
UIImage *scaledImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:[storyMenuItemImage CGImage] scale:(storyMenuItemImage.scale * 2.0) orientation:UIImageOrientationUp];
UIImage *storyMenuItemImagePressed = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Fill.png"];
UIImage *starImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Camera_Fill"];
AwesomeMenuItem *starMenuItem1 = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:scaledImage
highlightedImage:storyMenuItemImagePressed
ContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Camera_Fill"]
highlightedContentImage:nil];
AwesomeMenuItem *starMenuItem2 = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:scaledImage
highlightedImage:storyMenuItemImagePressed
ContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Video_Fill"]
highlightedContentImage:nil];
AwesomeMenuItem *starMenuItem3 = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:scaledImage
highlightedImage:storyMenuItemImagePressed
ContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Pen"]
highlightedContentImage:nil];
AwesomeMenuItem *starMenuItem4 = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:scaledImage
highlightedImage:storyMenuItemImagePressed
ContentImage:starImage
highlightedContentImage:nil];
AwesomeMenuItem *starMenuItem5 = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:scaledImage
highlightedImage:storyMenuItemImagePressed
ContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"Selector_Music_Fill"]
highlightedContentImage:nil];
// the start item, similar to "add" button of Path
AwesomeMenuItem *startItem = [[AwesomeMenuItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"bg-addbutton.png"]
highlightedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"bg-addbutton-highlighted.png"]
ContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"icon-plus.png"]
highlightedContentImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"icon-plus-highlighted.png"]];
startItem.center = CGPointMake(self.tabBarController.tabBar.center.x , 30);
//22
self.menu = [[AwesomeMenu alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 568) startItem:startItem optionMenus:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:starMenuItem1, starMenuItem2, starMenuItem3, starMenuItem4, starMenuItem5,nil]];
self.menu.startPoint = CGPointMake(160.0, 22.0);
self.menu.rotateAngle = M_PI / 180 * -60;
self.menu.menuWholeAngle = M_PI / 180 * 120;
self.menu.timeOffset = 0.036f;
self.menu.farRadius = 140.0f;
self.menu.nearRadius = 110.0f;
self.menu.endRadius = 120.0f;
self.menu.delegate = self;
self.menu.hidden = YES;
[self.tabBarController.tabBar addSubview:self.menu];
[self.tabBarController.tabBar sendSubviewToBack:self.menu];
Here is how I call it from the button in the UITabBar:
[self.menu touchesBegan:nil withEvent:nil];

Answer 1

You have to add a UIButton into the Tabbar which triggers to initialize an empty view containing all the AwesomeMenu stuff. You can pass the touch event from the button to the awesome menu with - (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event. Don't forget to dismiss the ViewController when -(void)awesomeMenuDidFinishAnimationClose:(AwesomeMenu *)menu. You also have to pass the selected MenuItems though a delegate to the parent vc.