tabPress no longer a part of the listeners Prop. Cannot override bottom-tabs button press behavior anymore

[1mike12]

Current behavior

https://stackoverflow.com/a/62056423/2532762

There is supposed to be a way to override the buttons on the bottom navigator. For instance, to have one of the buttons skip the bottom tap navigation altogether and instead navigate to a new page. This was working around a year ago when I was working with this funcitonality but no longer works.

 <Tab.Screen
            name="log"
            component={() => null}
            options={{
              tabBarIcon: LogButton as any
            }}
            listeners={{
              tabPress: (e) => {
                // Prevent default action
                e.preventDefault()
                this.props.navigation.navigate("foo")
              }
            }}
          />

Expected behavior

should intercept button press and prevent default behavior

Reproduction

none

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Windows
• MacOS

Packages

• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs
• @react-navigation/drawer
• @react-navigation/material-top-tabs
• @react-navigation/stack
• @react-navigation/native-stack
• react-native-tab-view

Environment

• I've removed the packages that I don't use
  "@react-navigation/bottom-tabs": "^6.5.7",
  "@react-navigation/native": "^6.1.6",
  "@react-navigation/native-stack": "^6.9.12",
  "@tsconfig/react-native": "^3.0.0",
  "react": "18.2.0",
  "react-native": "0.71.7",
  "react-native-date-picker": "^4.2.13",
  "react-native-device-info": "^10.6.0",
  "react-native-elements": "^3.4.3",
  "react-native-fast-image": "^8.6.3",
  "react-native-image-picker": "^5.3.1",
  "react-native-linear-gradient": "^2.6.2",
  "react-native-localize": "^3.0.0",
  "react-native-pager-view": "^6.2.0",
  "react-native-safe-area-context": "^4.5.2",
  "react-native-screens": "^3.20.0",
  "react-native-svg": "^13.9.0",
  "react-native-tab-view": "^3.5.1",

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[1mike12]

couldnt repro in the virtual sandbox, will create a project and update link

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[ian]

Related #10637

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[murilogok]

According to official docs the event "tabPress" should exists but we can't find it in any 6x version.