ModalView doesnt show up with tabbarcontroller - iphone

Question

I am building an app that has a login screen that leads to a tabbar. I followed this example on how to push a modal view once you launch the app (as the "sign in" page) and then dismiss it.
Example --> Show / Hide tab bar
From some reason, it's not really working - when I launch the app, I see the tabbar view with the two view controllers. no sign in page.
here is my code:
AppDelegate:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// Override point for customization after application launch.
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
UIViewController *viewController1 = [[FirstTab alloc] initWithNibName:#"FirstTab" bundle:NSBundle.mainBundle];
UIViewController *viewController2 = [[SecondTab alloc] initWithNibName:#"SecondTab" bundle:NSBundle.mainBundle];
UINavigationController *secondNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:viewController2];
self.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
self.tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:viewController1, secondNavController, nil];
self.window.rootViewController = self.tabBarController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
My first tab (which is where I understand all this modal view business needs to happen)
.h
#interface FirstTab : UIViewController
#end
.m
//UPDATED CODE PER COMMENT BELOW
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
SignIn *loginview = [[SignIn alloc] initWithNibName:#"SignIn" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *controller = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController: loginview];
self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
}
And of course, I dismiss the modal view in the SignIn view controller, though I never get there as I mentioned.
What am I doing wrong here? Thanks for the help!!

Answer 1

You could use :
[[self tabBarController] presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
since first viewController1 is your first tab, and self.navigationController might be nil.
In your custom view controller subclass called SignIn implement initWithNibName:bundle: instead if init.
-(id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil
bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
// init here
}
}
Now when init/alloc it call either :
SignIn *loginview = [[SignIn alloc] initWithNibName:#"SignIn" bundle:nil];
if your interface is in a NIB file, or :
SignIn *loginview = [[SignIn alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
if there no NIB.
Also why putting it as a root view controller of any navigation controller ? unless you need to go deeper in some model data presentation, just present it directly :
// why ?
//UINavigationController *controller = [[UINavigationController alloc]
// initWithRootViewController: loginview];
//self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
//[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
[self presentModalViewController:loginView animated:YES];

Answer 2

You have to include this in your code,
yourModelController =[[Yourmodelcontroller alloc]init];
UINavigationController *controller = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController: yourModelController];
self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
[[self navigationController] presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
[controller release];
hope this will help you out.

Answer 3

I've encountered issues where modals don't like showing from viewDidLoad. Try adding your code to your viewWillAppear and it should show.