I'm trying to create from the delegate method didSelectAnnotationView a ViewController.
I've got following Code:
- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didSelectAnnotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view
{
DestinationViewController *destinationViewController = [[DestinationViewController alloc] init];
NSNumber *mynumberId = [NSNumber numberWithInt:1];
destinationViewController.mynumberId = mynumberId;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:destinationViewController animated:YES];
}
After I tap on a Annotation I'm seeing just a black ViewController Screen with the Navigation Bar. But the Log tells me that everything is loaded correctly. So it seems like my Destination ViewController is somewhere in the background.
If you create your VC from a Nib, you need to use initWithNibName: rather than just init.
If you load the view programmatically, you need to check your viewDidLoad method.
It is not a mapKit issue, but you are not loading your VC and its view the way you should.
I've researched on the Apple Developer Site and found the answer for my question. I'm using Storyboards, and here the code snippet from Apple:
- (IBAction)presentSpecialViewController:(id)sender {
UIStoryboard *storyboard = self.storyboard;
SpecialViewController *svc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"SpecialViewController"];
// configure the new view controller explicitly here.
[self presentViewController:svc animated:YES completion:nil];
}
and here the Link where you can find more Info about View Controller Programming:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/UsingViewControllersinYourApplication/UsingViewControllersinYourApplication.html
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Background: I would like to dismiss a modalView that I have presented earlier and right away present the same viewController that I just dismissed with new information.
Problem: I have not been very successful in doing so without an explicit pointer to the parent ViewController that presented the first ViewController modally. I am trying to write this class that works without messing around with the previous viewController's code.
Possible lead: There are couple of things I have been experimenting with:
1.) Trying to get access to the parent ViewController, which at this time I don't know how to.
2.) Once access to the parent is gained, I can simply apply the following code:
UIViewController* toPresentViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{
[parentViewControllerAccessor presentModalViewController:toPresentViewController animated:YES];
}];
In theory this should work given the access to parent viewController. I am open to other ways of doing this.
Assumption: You do not have permission to change any code in the parent ViewController.
Your code looks like it should work. If you are using iOS 5 there is a UIViewController property called presentingViewController.
#property(nonatomic, readonly) UIViewController *presentingViewController;
So you can use this property to get the view controller that presented your modal controller.
Note: In iOS 4 parentViewController would be set to the presenting controller, so if you are supporting both iOS 4 and 5 you will have to check the OS version first to decide which property to access. In iOS 5 Apple have fixed this so that parentViewController is now exclusively used for the parent of contained view controllers (see the section on Implementing a Container View Controller in the UIViewController documentation).
Edit: Regarding accessing self.presentingViewController from within the block: By the time the block is called (after the modal view controller is dismissed) the presentingViewController property may get set to nil. Remember that self.presentingViewController inside the block gives the value of the property when the block is executed, not when it was created. To protect against this do the following:
UIViewController* toPresentViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
UIViewController* presentingViewController = self.presentingViewController;
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^
{
[presentingViewController presentModalViewController:toPresentViewController animated:YES];
}];
This is necessary not because self is gone/dismissed (it is safely retained by the block), but because it is no longer presented, therefore its presentingViewController is now nil. It is not necessary to store the presentingViewController anywhere else, the local variable is fine because it will be retained by the block.
You could accomplish this using notifications.
For example, fire this notification from outside the modal view when you want it to be dismissed:
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:#"dismissModalView"
object:nil
userInfo:nil];
And then handle that notification inside your modal view:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(dismissMe:)
name:#"dismissModalView"
object:nil];
}
- (void)dismissMe:(NSNotification)notification {
// dismiss it here.
}
the solution for ios5:
-(void)didDismissModalView:(id)sender {
// Dismiss the modal view controller
int sold=0;
if(sold==0){
//Cash_sold.delegate = self;
// Cash_sold.user_amount.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",somme];
Cash_sold = [[CashSoldview alloc] initWithNibName:#"CashSoldview" bundle:nil];
CGRect fram1 = CGRectMake(200,20,400,400);
Cash_sold.view.superview.frame = fram1;
Cash_sold.view.frame=fram1;
Cash_sold.modalTransitionStyle= UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
Cash_sold.modalPresentationStyle=UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
UIViewController* presentingViewController = self.parentViewController;
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^
{
[presentingViewController presentModalViewController:Cash_sold animated:YES];
}];
}
}
Try the following code:
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO
completion:^{
// instantiate and initialize the new controller
MyViewController *newViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
[[self presentingViewController] presentViewController:newViewController
animated:NO
completion:nil];
}];
I'm trying to do a switch view. My first view is a storyboard and i want to switch for view2, i have no problem when click the botton in my first view everything is fine. The prolem is when i am trying to go back, the screen is going black and is not going back to the first view. Here the code that i'm using.
ViewController.h
- (IBAction)View2:(id)sender;
ViewController.m
- (IBAction)View2:(id)sender {
View2 *second = [[View2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];
}
And here the code that i am using to go back from the second view to the first.
view2.h
- (IBAction)back:(id)sender;
View2.m
- (IBAction)back:(id)sender {
ViewController *second = [[ViewController2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];
}
Am I doing some kind of error?
Thanks
Your issue is in View2.m
- (IBAction)back:(id)sender {
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
should do the trick
Apple has a View Controller Programming Guide that I suggest skimming through
UPDATE
If you need to jump back more that one ViewController, you should use NSNotificationCenter or keep a reference to the viewController you need to jump back to.
In my experiences, the following line does 1 of 2 things (where self is a subclass of UIViewController)
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
1) If self has presented another view controller, the line above will dismiss all view controllers that have been presented on top of self
2) If self has not presented any other view controller, the line above will dismiss self back to the previous view controller
I am currently developing an iPhone App for my company and i ran into a strange thing.
My View Hierachy looks like this:
UITabBarController containing 5 Tabs with every Tab containing a UINAvigationController.
So far everything works perfect.
Now i want to present a modal View controller via the presentModalViewController method on the
UITabBarController using this lines of code:
-(void)callFilterOptions
{
FilterOptionsView *filterView = [[FilterOptionsView alloc] init];
[filterView setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal];
[self.tabBarController presentModalViewController:filterView animated:TRUE];
}
The FilterOptionsView is a normal UIViewController containing nothing but a black background at the
moment.
What happens is that the view is presented and after a couple of seconds misteriously disappears.
Why is this happening? At no Point i am calling the dismissModalViewController method.
I already ran into this problem when presenting a mailcomposer.
greetings,
Florian
UINavigationController *myNavController = [self navigationController];
[myNavController presentModalViewController:filterView animated:TRUE];
or a better approach might be:
UIApplication *myApp = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
noIBAppDelegate*appDelegate = (noIBAppDelegate*)myApp.delegate;
[appDelegate.tabBarController presentModalViewController:filterView animated:YES];
to dismiss:
UIApplication *myApp = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
noIBAppDelegate*appDelegate = (noIBAppDelegate*)myApp.delegate;
[appDelegate.tabBarController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
p.s. I recommend not naming a view controller "filterView" it would be better named "filterViewController"
I have an iPad app that uses the storyboard board feature and then I have a separate .xib file for another view. I can switch to the separate view and its fine:
-(IBAction)SecondView:(id)sender{
SecondView *Second = [[SecondView alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:Second animated:NO];
}
But when I am in the Second View and try going back I do everything the same just with the first view controller, but It just goes to a black screen:
-(IBAction)FirstView:(id)sender{
FirstView *First = [[FirstView alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:First animated:NO];
}
What do you guys think? Am I doing something wrong? What is the best way to switch views?
initWithNibName:bundle is for loading nib or xib files.
If you are loading from a storyboard, you need to use
FirstView *First= [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"IDENTIFIER"];
IDENTIFIER is defined in your storyboard, it's in the Utilities, Attributes Inspector on the right side.
HOWEVER your real problem is that you shouldn't be loading from the storyboard at all. you should just be calling
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
That call will clean up the presentModalViewController:animated: that you used to put the modal view controller up in the first place.
You presented SecondView using presentModalViewController:animated:, so you need to dismiss it using dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:.
- (IBAction)FirstView:(id)sender
{
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
I'm trying to use a UINavigationController but I'm uncertain how. Up till now (for about a year), I've been using presentModalViewController and dismissModalViewController to present/dismiss view controllers.
So, this is what I did. My main view controller (the first one that shows on launch) is called MainViewController, and it extends UIViewController.
So I made this launch function in my app delegate:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
MainViewController *controller = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:controller];
[self.window addSubview:navigationController.view];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
And in my MainViewController's viewDidLoad method:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.title = #"Title";
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [Constants barColor];
....more code...
}
But, in my MainViewController, I'd like to present another view controller called SecondViewController, which needs a UINavigationBar with a back arrow button. So do I make SecondViewController extend UIViewController and do the same thing by setting the title and backButton in the viewDidLoad method? And how do I present it? What should I do to accomplish this?
You'll need to set a root view controller up, it's easiest starting from the apple template.
Here's where the magic happens:
UIViewController *controller = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyNib" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
The nav controller does all the work for you (back buttons, titles, animations) - it keeps track!
My workflow is this:
Setup MutableArray in the viewDidLoad, add controllers to it, e.g:
NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
MyCustomViewController *customView = [[MyCustomViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"nib" bundle:#"nil"];
customView.title = #"Second Level";
[array addObject:customView];
self.controllers = array;
Then in your delegate:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSUInteger row = [indexPath row];
UIViewController *childControllerToBe = [controllers objectAtIndex:row];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:childControllerToBe animated:YES];
}
This, along with a lot more can be learnt by reading a decent beginner book such as Beginning iPhone Development
Also, apple docs are always good :)
UINavigationController is a subclass of UIViewController, but unlike UIViewController it’s not usually meant for you to subclass. This is because navigation controller itself is rarely customized beyond the visuals of the nav bar. An instance of UINavigationController can be created either in code or in an XIB file with relative ease.
Please visit "How to add UINavigationController Programmatically"
You should Push it onto the navigation stack.
This Lecture by Stanford's iPhone Course will teach you a lot about Navigation Bars. (It's a quick read)
Basically at the heart of it you need this code:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:SecondView];
You can use PopViewController to go back programmatically, but the Back Button is automatically created.
Here's some source code from the Lecture. It covers exactly what you are having issues with.