How would I hide the tab bar in the bottom of tabbed application programmatically in swift?

hi michael,

i ran into the same problem when i was trying to follow the ribbit tutorial using swift instead of objective-c. there's a lesson there teaching how to hide the tab bar in the bottom (but it's based on objective-c). anyway, after several trials, i was able to hide it in swift using the following code in the scene that leads to the scene with the tab bar i wanted to hide (not in the scene with the bar i wanted to hide) :

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    if segue.identifier == "showLogin"{
        println("showLogin seque called")
        let bottomBar = segue.destinationViewController as LoginViewController
        bottomBar.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
        bottomBar.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
    }
}

Roderick Kar I appreciate the quick response. Would you be able to explain what is happening in this snippet? I'm guessing prepareForSegue is a built in function from the ViewController right? and it looks like you set the boolean values for its UI elements in this case the bottom tab through it, but for the rest I'm having trouble following

Also... how can I set the segue.identifer?

Thank you very much. I've wasted way too much time on this problem.