how to pass information between scenes objective c - iphone

Question

I'm completely new to objective c and ios development, I'm simply trying to navigate to a new scene on my storyboard, and upon navigating change the text of a UIlabel to something.
The way I have this set up is I have a View controller and a tableview controller, each with their own header and implementation files. I'm using a segue from a button on the view controller to navigate to the tableview.
I did read this stack overflow post (How do I pass information between storyboard segues?) which explains how to pass values on a segue and have implemented it as such:
-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{
NSLog(#"prepareForSegue: %#", segue.identifier);
if([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"navtotablebut"])
{
TableViewController *testcontroller = segue.destinationViewController;
testcontroller.testpass.text = #"Testing123";
NSLog(#"%#",[NSString stringWithFormat:#"testpass has been changed to %#", testcontroller.testpass.text]);
}
}
The logs verify that this segue method does get called, and it is able to correctly identify the id I gave it (navtotablebut). I then attempt to set the value of my UIlabel's text property on my tableview controller to a simple string "Testing123". However not only does this change not reflect on the new screen, but my print statement afterwards seems to think testcontroller.testpass.text is equal to (null).
Am I doing something horribly wrong here?

Answer 1

You are setting the value of label testcontroller in TableViewController before the view of `TableViewController ' is drawn.
Please note: update the view in viewdidLoad or viewDidLayoutSubviews if using Autolayout.
Best way is pass your value as a string to other view controller and then populate.

Answer 2

Simply grab a reference to the target view controller in prepareForSegue: method and pass any objects you need to there. Here's an example...
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
// Make sure your segue name in storyboard is the same as this line
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"YOUR_SEGUE_NAME_HERE"])
{
// Get reference to the destination view controller
YourViewController *vc = [segue destinationViewController];
// Pass any objects to the view controller here, like...
[vc setMyObjectHere:object];
}
}
also with performSegueWithIdentifier:sender: method to activate the transition to a new view based on a selection or button press.
// When any of my buttons are pressed, push the next view
-(IBAction)buttonPressed:(id)sender
{
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"MySegue" sender:sender];
}
// This will get called too before the view appears
-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"MySegue"]) {
// Get destination view
SecondView *vc = [segue destinationViewController];
// Get button tag number (or do whatever you need to do here, based on your object
NSInteger tagIndex = [(UIButton *)sender tag];
// Pass the information to your destination view
[vc setSelectedButton:tagIndex];
}
}

Answer 3

In TableViewController, You need to create property,
TableViewController.h
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *subject;
you pass value like that,
In ViewController,
-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
if([[segue identifier]isEqualToString:#"Detail"])
{
TableViewController *testcontroller = segue.destinationViewController;
testcontroller.testpass.text = #"Testing123";
detailView.subject = testcontroller.testpass.text;
}
}