Call UINavigationController from subview in UITableViewCell - iphone

Question

I have a table view in which I have subclassed the cells. In these cells I add a subview of a UIView. When sliding the cell I add another UIView to the subclass of UITableViewCell.
I would like to present a ModalViewController when pressing a button inside the second UIView (subview in UITableViewCell). I do not have a navigation controller in this view, therefore I am passing the navigation controller from the view controller my table view is inside of and down to my second UIView.
Here, I call it as you normally would but nothing happens.
ComposeCommentViewController *ccvc = [[ComposeCommentViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ComposeCommentViewController" bundle:nil];
[navController presentModalViewController:ccvc animated:YES];
Does anyone have an idea what I might do wrong or have another solution?
EDIT: This is how I set navController
First I pass it to my subclass of UITableViewCell.
if (feedCell == nil)
{
feedCell = [[FeedCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
[feedCell setNavigationControllerForSlidedView:[self navigationController]];
}
The subclass has the method setNavigationControllerForSlidedView: which looks like this:
- (void)setNavigationControllerForSlidedView:(UINavigationController *)navController
{
[feedSlidedView setNavController:navController];
}
In my FeedSlidedView I have declared and synthesized UINavigationController *navController;

Answer 1

The way you are going about this runs contrary to MVC (model-view-controller) design practices. You have a number of mechanisms for accomplishing what you want within the MVC framework that Apple provides in its SDK. Probably the simplest, in my opinion, would be to add a target-action to the button in the subview of your UITableViewCell. In your view controller's tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: method, add something like the following:
[button addTarget:self action:#selector(presentComposeComment:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
In this case, self would be the UIViewController that is responsible for the UITableView in question. You would then include the method for the selector above in that view controller:
- (void)presentComposeComment:(id)sender {
ComposeCommentViewController *ccvc = [[ComposeCommentViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ComposeCommentViewController" bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:ccvc animated:YES];
}
Note that I am not sending the presentModalViewController:animated: message to the navigation controller, but rather the view controller.