How can i dismiss modalViewController without leaving current view? - iphone

My application is view based app. First view is login view. After login view i have MainMenuCcontroller which has a tabBarController:
#interface RunnoMainMenuController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UITabBarController *tabBarController;
}
From login view controller, i am going to MainMenuController using this line of code:
[self presentModalViewController:mainMenu animated:YES];
this controller has 4 tabs. Now i need to do some stuff in viewWillAppear of a tabBarItem. viewWillAppear is not called when i tap a tabBarItem. I have a button in one of those tabBarItem's view which pops up a table view controller using presentModalViewController. This tableView uses dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES to disappear it. When i pop up this tableview and dismiss it then viewWillAppear of every tabBarItem works fine. If i will dismiss modalViewController in MainMenuController then it will again go back to login view. How can i dismiss modalViewController without leaving current view or any other solution? Thanks in advance.

You may need to consider how your views are presented. The tab bar controller should always be the window's root view controller. From the Apple docs:
When deploying a tab bar interface, you must install this view as the
root of your window. Unlike other view controllers, a tab bar
interface should never be installed as a child of another view
controller.
Rather than present your login view as the root view and the tab bar as a modal view controller, try it the other way round. The tab bar controller as root, with the login view as presented as a modal view controller from the view controller of whichever tab is shown initially. Dismissing this will then reveal the tab bar controller.

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I am presenting a modal view controller with a tableView, and then want to perform a push segue when a cell is tapped inside the modally presented view controller.
I set up a view controller and a show (push) segue from the modal view controller to the new view controller, but when I call performSegueWithIdentifier, the new view is presented in a modal fashion (slides up) on top of the initial modal view, instead of coming in from the right.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks!
For anyone who has this issue in the future, I figured it out:
You need another navigation controller. So I perform a modal segue to a new navigation controller, and set the modal view controller as the root view controller of the navigation controller. I can then perform a show segue from the modal view controller to any other as normal.
:)
As of Xcode 11.4 (possible earlier) you can also just select the destination view controller and in the right inspector pane under the attribute inspector you have the option: "Transition style" and "Presentation" which will allow you to change from Automatic to Full Screen for example. That way you can overwrite that when you use "push" from a modally presented view controller, the segue will always present the next view controller modally.

Add a default view on a navigation view controller

I have a navigation controller and a tab bar where I have buttons for multiple options. When a button is ever pressed it pushes its respective viewcontroller in navigation controller. That's fine, but when I again press the button in tab bar after loading any other suboption viewcontroller in navigation controller, it shows blank screen instead of that "options screen" which it shows when I touch it first time.
I am using this code:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:accountOptions animated:NO];
You're pushing same view controller twice without ever poping it from navigation controller.
You can either pop view controller when switching to another one or push view controllers once on navigation controller in tab bar and be done with it.

Designing an Application with different ViewControllers

after reading a lot of tutorials and threads here on stackoverflow there is one basic question left in my head.
The structure of my App should be the following:
MainMenu - fullscreen without a navigation bar but 2 buttons (button1 and button2)
Page1 - should appear by pressing button1 and should have a navigation bar at the top with a "back"-button to get back to the MainMenu.
Page2 - should appear by pressing button2 without a navigation bar at the top. Page2 should be a UISplitView. There must be a back button somewhere.
(I think this is where the problem starts, a UISplitView can't be presented modally, can it?)
You should be able to add subpages to Page1.
So how can I do that? I don't need executable code but just a hint on how the structure of my app should be. For example where to add the navigation controller, how the MainMenu looks like.
Thanks in advance!
Are you trying to create an Application for iPad?
Your Application's UI sems inconsistent being First View the only view without navigation Bar.
You will be using standard navigation to navigate to page1 from home page. So you will be adding a navigation Controller with Home View Controller as a Root View COntroller with hidden navigation bar.
eg.
-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:...
{
HomeViewController * hvc = [[HomeViewController alloc]init];
UInavigationController * nvc = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:hvc];
nvc.navigationBar.hidden = YES;
[window addSubView:nvc.view];
}
Then on tap of first Button you will be pushing the Page1 View Controller
-(IBActtion)button1Pressed:(id)sender
{
Page1ViewCOntroller * p1vc = [[Page1ViewCOntroller alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewCOntroller:p1vc animated:YES];
}
In viewWillAppear: method of Page1ViewController unhide the NavigationBar and hide it in the viewWillDisappear: method
Your Page 2 needs to be splitViewController.
Now about Split View, Apple says
The split view controller’s view should always be installed as the root view of your application window. You should never present a split view inside of a navigation or tab bar interface.
But as there is no "must" written in the above statement, and since its finally a View Controller in itselt, you should be able to add it on the window or another view.
Try to create a VIewController, with split VIew added on it, and like page1, push the View on the navigation Controller.

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Is there a way to unload a UITabBarController when it is popped off the stack of a UINavigationController, so that it is reloaded fresh when pushed back on the stack? I need to clear all of the data in all of the view controllers in the tab bar.
I've tried various methods of iterating through the tab bar's view controllers and setting each to nil, and setting the tab bar's view to nil, and I've also tried sending the didReceiveMemoryWarning message to each of the views.
In my main nib file (MainWindow.xib), I have a UINavigationController and a UITabBarController. Both are wired up to the app delegate as IBOutlets to ease in automatically loading the controllers, especially the tab bar controller.
The nav controller first loads another view as its root view, and when the user taps a button, the UITabBarController is pushed onto the UINavigationController stack.
This all works fine.
Now I want to be able to pop the UITabBarController off the nav controller stack, so the root view of the nav controller is redisplayed, and have it reset all of the data on all the views in the UITabBarController while it is hidden (off the stack).
From one of the view controllers in the tab bar controller, I can call [self.tabBarController.navigationController popToRootViewController:YES] and that works fine.
But how do I unload and reload all of the UITabBarController's views?
You should be able to re-init the view controllers and pass them into your tabBarController's setViewControllers: method.

UINavigationView in modal view

I would like to place a UINavigation View within a Modal view but I am having loads of problems. I managed to get the modal view working, but when trying to put a UINavigationController in it it just comes up with a blank screen.
Does anybody know how to do that properly?
Create a UINavigationController, initialize it with your UIViewController at its root, and then present the navigation controller modally.