Modal ViewController has white stripe on bottom - iphone

I have a ViewController subclass that I'm presenting as a modal view:
MyViewController *myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
[self presentModalViewController:myViewController animated:YES];
However, the modal view showing up with a white stripe on the bottom, approximately the height of the title or navigation bar. My app is otherwise navigation controlled. How do I get rid of the white stripe (and ideally add a title bar)?

I'm not sure if this is one of two things from your question, are you trying to add a navigation controller to your modal view controller, or are you trying to hide your navigation controller from your modal view.
I suspect you may want to in fact change your code to the following to present your modal view controller from your NavigationController
MyViewController *myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
[[self navigationController] presentModalViewController:myViewController animated:YES];
Then call setTitle: on you MyViewController object to set the title for it.

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Modal View with Navigation Controller's Bar

When I try to present a modalViewController, it covers up my navigation controller's navigation bar. Any tips? Thanks.
UPDATE (with code):
ComposeText *compText = [[ComposeText alloc] initWithNibName:#"ComposeText" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
compNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:compText];
UIBarButtonItem *doneButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:compNavController action:#selector(compDoneTapped:)];
compNavController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = doneButton;
[self presentModalViewController:compNavController animated:YES];
compText.title = #"Compose";
[doneButton release];
Everything seems to be in order, but the button is still not appearing on the navigation bar.
That's what it is supposed to do. If you want a navigation bar, present a new UINavigationController modally and set it's root view controller to your modalViewController.
The question you need to ask yourself is: "why do I want to show my navigationbar". If it is to give the user access to some buttons then it is the wrong reason. Modal view controllers are there to take full control of the screen and to not allow the user to manipulate anything else in the app until the controller is dismissed. If you don't want that do as Cyprian suggests and push a viewcontroller on your navigation stack.
If it is just a visual thing (logo ...) duplicate it in your modal view controller.
UINavigationController has it's own method to show another viewController.
-(void)pushViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
It uses stack, to push new viewController so it can handle its navigation with buttons.

Maintain Title Bar in ModalViewController

When using the modalViewController, I found that that only way to keep a title bar and buttons on the screen that I jump to was to create a navigation controller and set the modalView screen as the rootView of the navigation controller (as below).
userNameViewController = [[UserNameViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *cntrol = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:userNameViewController];
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:cntrol animated:YES];
[userNameViewController release];
[cntrol release];
Why can't I simply this by using the original viewController as the modalView (as below)?
userNameViewController = [[UserNameViewController alloc] init];
[self presentModalViewController:userNameViewController animated:YES];
Because the navigation bar you usually see belongs to the navigation controller, not to its children view controllers.
You could create your own navigation bar and add it to your controller's view. However, it would require some relayout (and that's probably why it's easier to just recreate a navigation controller).

Presented modal navigationcontroller under current navigationcontroller iphone

In my application the modal navigationcontroller that I am presenting is going under the current navigationcontroller so I'm not able to view the new navigationbar as it's disappearing under the current one.
I'm presenting the modalview on self and not self.navigationcontroller because self.navigationcontroller doesn't present the modalviewcontroller.
Also how to push a view on this modal navigationcontroller?
I'm using following code in one of my viewControllers:
fullListTopCompanies *fullListTopCompaniesInstance = [[fullListTopCompanies alloc] initWithNibName:#"fullListTopCompanies" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:fullListTopCompaniesInstance];
fullListTopCompaniesInstance.navigationController.navigationItem.title = #"F";
[self presentModalViewController:navigationController animated:YES];
[navigationController release];
[fullListTopCompaniesInstance release];
Can anybody please help?
Thanx in advance.
use animated with transition
according to me you have to change the animation style
i done it before but forgot the code i will post it when i get it
self.navigationController.navigationItem.title = #"F";
Add the above line of code in viewDidLoad method of "fullListTopCompanies" class.
Actually your navigation bar hides because of the modal view and modal view by default doesnt have Navigation bar.To add a navigation bar to modal view you can try the below code:
In Header File
IBOutlet fullListTopCompanies *fullListTopCompaniesInstance;
In Implementation File
UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithNibName:#"fullListTopCompanies" bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:nav animated:YES];
[nav release];
Also on the "fullListTopCompanies" View Controller dont forget to put a left navigation bar button item for dismissing the modal view.
So add that left bar button (Ideally Cancel Button on navigation bar) and event handler for that left barr button should contain the code
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Hope this helps.

presentModalViewController NOT animating when showing a TTMessageController

I have a subclass of TTMessageController that shows ... BUT it is not animated even though it should be. The code that displays the modal view looks like this (where PostToWebMessageController is the subclass of TTMessageController:
if (self.toWebMsgController == nil) {
self.toWebMsgController = [[PostToWebMessageController alloc] init];
}
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navController pushViewController:self.toWebMsgController animated:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];
What happens though is this: The screen goes black ... the keyboard scrolls up into view ... and THEN the TTMessageController view shows up (not animated). When I dismiss the view via a Cancel button the screen goes black and then just disappears (no animation again).
Any ideas why this is happening? I've this with a number of other TT* controllers and I can't get one to animate right with showing modally.
Thanks
UPDATE:
This is happening in EVERY UIViewController that I try to present modally. Screen goes black, keyboard animates upwards and then view displays. Any ideas why this might be happening???
A day to figure this out ... hopefully someone will benefit from my pains!
Here is what is happening:
The UIViewController calling presentModalViewController is itself nested inside a UIScrollView that is contained in ANOTHER UIViewController. Apparently, cocoa touch doesn't much like this. Anyhow, to rectify the problem I did the following:
Add a property of type UIViewController to the UIViewController that will present a modal view controller (e.g. #property (nonatomic, retain) UIViewController *owningController;)
Set that property = to the topmost UIViewController (the one that contains the UIScrollView in this case)
In the UIViewController that shows the modal view ... change this
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
to this ...
[owningController presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
I'm not sure why you are using a UINavigationController. If it is because you would like your toWebMsgController controller to have a nav bar when it loads in the modal view, try the following alterations to your code:
if (self.toWebMsgController == nil) {
self.toWebMsgController = [[PostToWebMessageController alloc] init];
}
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:toWebMsgController];
//[navController pushViewController:self.toWebMsgController animated:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];
If you don't require a nav bar in your modal view, you probably don't need a UINavigationController at all.
I had same issue.
Check that you root controller (if you present controller over it) for presentationStyle DOES NOT set to UIModalPresentationCurrentContext

UINavigationController and modalViewController problems

Hi I'm having this problem:
I have a UITabBarController with UINavigationControllers in each tab.
However, I'm trying to implement an action that, when I click on a button, should present me a new view with a UINavigationController (since it will be multi-view) in a modal way.
What I've tried is to implement a new UIViewController, with a NavigationBar. And then on the button handler I wrote something like this:
SendMessageViewController *v = [[SendMessageViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SendMessageView" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *t = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:v];
[(UINavigationController *)[tabbar.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0] presentModalViewController:t animated:true]; // hardcoding 0, I know
However, the modal view that's pushed appears with 2 navigation bars, one empty, and my other defined on the "SendMessageView" XIB.
Is there a way to solve this? I don't want to create a XIB just to contain a UINavigationController.. I thought I could do it programatically.
What you want to do is this:
[tabBarController presentModalViewController:t animated:Y];
Basically, get a handle to the tab bar ViewController, and then you'll have the single nav bar you were seeking.