UINavigationController not working (pushViewController ignores the view) - iphone

there are a lot of questions regarding UINavigationController. I modify my code to follow Apple examples, but the pushViewController method is not working:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[window addSubview:navController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
LoginController *login = (LoginController*)[self.navController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];
if([login already_validated] == TRUE) {
self.timeline = [[TimelineViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"Timeline" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
[navController pushViewController:timeline animated:YES];
[self.timeline release];
}
return YES;
the view is loaded correctly in the line:
self.timeline = [[TimelineViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"Timeline" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
...but
[navController pushViewController:timeline animated:YES];
does not present the view. I've checked and navController is not null.
Any ideas?
Best!
Lucas.
FIXED!!
The problem resides on the MainWindow.xib.
Do NOT set the rootViewController on the window class!
If you set the attribute on the XIB file, this view will be on top of everything else.

You should never send a release to a property directly! Memory management is done in the setter method for you!
instead of:
[self.someProperty release];
write:
self.someProperty = nil;
Normally you do this in the dealloc method.
In your case simply remove the line [self.timeline release]; or don't use a property at all.
EDIT:
add an autorelease:
self.timeline = [[[TimelineViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"Timeline" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] autorelease];

Try out this one..
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
[window addSubview:navController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
LoginController *login = (LoginController*)[navController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];//here remove self
if([login already_validated] == TRUE) {
self.timeline = [[TimelineViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"Timeline" bundle:nil];//remove the nsbundle mainbundle
[navController pushViewController:self.timeline animated:YES];//here u have to use with self.timeline
[self.timeline release];
}
return YES;

Related

App not navigating to second view

The code I am using
NSLog(#"before Navigate to second activity");
Signature *temp = [[Signature alloc]initWithNibName:#"Signature" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:temp animated:YES];
NSLog(#"after Navigate to second activity");
On console,both the log statements are getting printed, but my app is not navigating me to the next View.Please correct me.
if you are not using a UINavigationController on your app you can not call pushViewController, use presentViewController:animated:completion: instead:
[self presentViewController:temp animated:YES completion:nil];
for more information check the documentation
The log messages would show anyway, so no surprise there. Add a callback to the delegate for that navigation controller (you must first set a delegate of course) for
navigationController:didShowViewController:animated:
There you can make sure that the viewController passed (make sure Signature is a ViewController instance).
i think your application is not with navigationController so in AppDelegate.m file assign rootViewController like this..
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
self.window = [[[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]] autorelease];
RootViewController *viewController1 = [[[RootViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"RootViewController" bundle:nil] autorelease];
UINavigationController *navviewController=[[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:viewController1];
self.window.rootViewController = navviewController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
after that check its working..
CreditsViewController *viewController = [[CreditsViewController alloc] init];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:viewController animated:YES];
[viewController release];
you can try with above code

Show View Controller Modally on First Startup

I'd like to have a view with instructions on how to use my app show up on the first time the app is opened. I have handled the problem of the only showing this view on the first startup using NSUserDefaults, but I am having trouble getting the view to display the way I want it to modally, not as the rootViewController. Here is my AppDelegate.m code:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
self.window = [[[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]] autorelease];
self.viewController = [[[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ViewController_iPhone" bundle:nil] autorelease];
self.window.rootViewController = self.viewController;
BOOL hasShownStartup = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:kAppHasShownStartupScreen];
if (!hasShownStartup) {
[self showInstructions];
}
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
- (void)showInstructions
{
NSLog(#"showing instructions");
InstructionsViewController *howToView = [[InstructionsViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"InstructionsViewController"
bundle:nil];
self.instructionsViewController = howToView;
[howToView release];
UINavigationController *howtoNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:self.instructionsViewController];
self.instructionsViewController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self.viewController presentModalViewController:howtoNavController animated:NO];
[howtoNavController release];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:YES forKey:kAppHasShownStartupScreen];
}
I want my rootViewController to remain self.viewController. I want to be able to click 'Done' on the instructionsViewController nav bar to transition back to the rootViewController. Executing the code as written never shows the instructions view. The only way I can see instructionsViewController is if I change the line [self.viewController presentModalViewController:howtoNavController animated:NO]; to self.window.rootViewController = self.instructionsViewController; but this is obviously not what i want (unless I could modally transition back to viewController).
Hopefully I've made it clear enough what I am trying to accomplish. Thanks in advance.
Try moving [self showInstructions]; to applicationDidBecomeActive: instead.
Try putting the [self showInstructions] after [self.window makeKeyAndVisible]:
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
if (!hasShownStartup) {
[self showInstructions];
}

Starting an App up with a different XIB

I want to start my app up with a different Xib. How would I do this?
Thanks
If you're using interface builder:
Under SupportingFiles, in -info.plist, look for a key named "Main nib file base name". Change that to the XIB you want it to load first
You can also take that entry out of the plist altogether an in main.m give it your appDelegate's name:
int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, #"HelloViewAppDelegate");
Then in your appDelegate, you can manually load your first view controller based on your code and logic. Personally, I like this better because it's much clearer to - here's my delegate and code to load it. It doesn't have all the bindings in IB I need to remember.
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// Override point for customization after application launch.
CGRect screenBounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
CGRect windowBounds = screenBounds;
windowBounds.origin.y = 0.0;
// init window
[self setWindow: [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:screenBounds]];
// init view controller
_mainViewController = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
[[self window] addSubview:[_mainViewController view]];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
EDIT:
Answering your comment below. You pasted this invalid code:
// init view controller
ViewController = [[ViewController alloc] init];
[[self window] addSubview:[ViewController view]];
That's not valid. you need an instance variable name. By referring to it as "ViewController" your attempting to call class member variables. If your class is called ViewController then it should be:
// notice the instance myviewController is of type ViewController
ViewController *myViewController = [[ViewController alloc] init];
// notice calling view against instance (myViewController)
[[self window] addSubview:[myViewController view]];
At this point, if it's not compiling you need to edit your question and paste your main.m and appDelegate exactly as is into the question.
The MainWindow.xib file is just a shell that provides the application's UIWindow. While you can put a UIViewController in MainWindow.xib, you can also just have an unconnected UIViewController outlet on your app delegate and pick which nib to load at runtime in your application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method, e.g.:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)options {
if (case1)
self.viewController = [[[MyViewController1 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil] autorelease];
else if (case 2)
self.viewController = [[[MyViewController2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil] autorelease];
else
self.viewController = [[[MyViewController2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil] autorelease];
[window addSubview:self.viewController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}

Presenting Modal View Controller before window is visible

I would like to present a view controller modally before calling -makeKeyAndVisible on the application's window. However, this code only shows the mainNav view controller:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
MainViewController *main = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *mainNav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:main];
if ([[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:#"Restore"])
{
DetailViewController *detail = [[DetailViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *detailNav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:detail];
// changing main to mainNav does not help
[main presentModalViewController:learnNav animated:NO];
[detailNav release]; [detail release];
}
self.window.rootViewController = mainNav;
[main release]; [mainNav release];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
What am I missing?
You should better make the window appear and then present the modal view with animated=NO. What's the point of presenting the modal view before everything else is instantiated and displayed?
Edit
To try to make your code work, here are a couple of hints. Try this:
[mainNav presentModalViewController:learnNav animated:NO];
or this:
[main.navigationController presentModalViewController:learnNav animated:NO];
I'd say that these two methods work best if they're put after the makeKeyAndVisible call.

How to show UINavigationController on view

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
// Add the view controller's view to the window and display.
[window addSubview:viewController.view];
MainPageDialog *overviewViewController = [[MainPageDialog alloc] initWithNibName:#"MainPage" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *nav_obj = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:overviewViewController ];
[self.viewController presentModalViewController:nav_obj animated:YES];
[overviewViewController release];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
This code shows the blue bar of navigation controller, but no buttons on it.It seems like to be that the UINavigationController allocated as empty.
Who knows what problems is?
UPD:Archive http://www.mediafire.com/?lbjjvl6fcue2q18
Please help me, I'm new in objective-c
You need to create the button for it, for example:
UIBarButtonItem *doneButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:launcherView action:#selector(endEditing)];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = doneButton;
[doneButton release];
The correct way to use a UINavigationController is to push view controllers on to it. That way they will be stacked and the navigation bar will be populated with a back button when it is case (i.e., when you can actually go back to a previous controller). You control the label that appears in the "back" button by defining the title of the controllers you push.
The technique shown in another answer (setting explicitly the button) is useful with defining the right button, if you ever need one.
You could try with this code:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
MainPageDialog *overviewViewController = [[MainPageDialog alloc] initWithNibName:#"MainPage" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController* navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navigation pushViewController:overviewViewController animated:NO];
[overviewViewController release];
[window addSubview:[navigation view]];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Instead of doing:
UINavigationController* navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navigation pushViewController:overviewViewController animated:NO];
you could also use initWithRootController, but to display the general case of how you push a view controller I preferred this one.
Notice that since you are pushing just a root controller, you should see no back button at the moment, but if you push a second view controller, then it will appear.
EDIT: I gave a look at your project. Summary of what you should try and do:
objects you need in your NIB: File's Owner (UIApplication), First Responder, FBFun App Delegate (iVkAppDelegate), Window (UIWindow); remove the rest;
File's owner delegate outlet is FBFun App Delegate;
FBFun App Delegate window outlet is Window.
With this simple setup (more or less what you have), use this code :
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
UINavigationController* navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
//-- MainPageDialog *overviewViewController = [[MainPageDialog alloc] initWithNibName:#"MainPage" bundle:nil];
iVkViewController *overviewViewController = [[iVkViewController alloc] init];
overviewViewController.title = #"First";
[navigation pushViewController:overviewViewController animated:NO];
iVkViewController *overviewViewController2 = [[iVkViewController alloc] init];
overviewViewController2.title = #"Second";
[navigation pushViewController:overviewViewController2 animated:NO];
[overviewViewController release];
[window addSubview:[navigation view]];
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
In the code above, as you notice, I instantiated twice your iVkViewController just to have a second controller to push onto the navigator.
Please, delete your existing app from the simulator, and the run this in order to see that the navigation bar is correctly created and you can go back from the second controller to the first one.
I removed usage of MainPageDialog, because the MainPage nib has many problems.
But I hope this skeleton is sufficient for you to go forward with your development.
You had missed the line as you are not adding view to window.Add this line in your code
[window addSubview:nav_obj.view];