Implementing ECSlidingViewController - iphone

Question

I am trying to implement ECSlidingViewController & I am using segues in my storyboards. I am having a problem where the MainViewController's viewDidLoad is being called twice and
self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Menu"];
is always getting set to null. More information.
LogIn Screen ( InitViewController ) ------through segue---------> MainViewController.
In my MainViewController I have the following code.
-(void)addMenuViewControllerWithGesture{
self.view.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.075f;
self.view.layer.shadowRadius = 10.0f;
self.view.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
if (![self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController isKindOfClass:[rsMenuViewController class]]) {
self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Menu"];
}
}
In My InitViewController (LogIn)
-(void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{
MainViewController *controller = segue.destinationViewController;
// setting some values before going to the next view.
controller.id = 0;
controller.name = #"harish";
self.topViewController = controller;
}
By doing this, the MainViewController's viewDidLoad is getting called twice and the below value is always set to null.
self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Menu"];
Hope it's clear. I am kind of stuck here and looking for a solution.
Thanks

Answer 1

Okay, I figured it out. After a long, arduous experience, I figured it out. I asked a similar question here: iOS Adding Menu Causes Crash When Not First View and eventually answered it. I just recently came upon your question.
So let's say you have numerous files (.m and .h for each):
InitViewController
MenuViewController
MainViewController
SpeakersView
The objective was to switch from MainViewController using a button not on the slide menu to SpeakersView, but doing it directly caused the slide menu to be null, as was pointed out by Phillip Mills.
Instead, I put this in InitViewController.h, right underneath #Interface:
#property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *location;
Then this under #implementation in InitViewController.m:
#synthesize location;
I originally had this under ViewDidLoad in InitViewController.m:
self.topViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Main"];
I changed it to this:
if([location length] == 0){location = #"Main";}
self.topViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:location];
That way if the variable was empty, it defaulted to #"Main".
Then in MainView.m, where I execute the code after pressing the button, I have this:
InitViewController *ini;
ini = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Init"];
ini.location = #"Speakers";
And voilà, the view switches just fine to Speakers. More accurately, it switches to InitViewController which automatically switches to Speakers or whatever I set location to.
Hopefully this helps you.
Any questions, let me know.