I have a storyboard as seen in this picture:
From a table view cell, I modally present a new view controller which is a subclass of UITableViewController. In the scene on the RHS I have a UINavigationBar. But when my view is presented, it does not have it. Why is that? Thanks!
You'll need to embed your subclass of UITableViewController that you want presented modally inside of a UINavigationController.
To do this, click the view you want presented modally in your Storyboard, then go to Editor>Embed In>Navigation Controller.
Basically once I dismissed the modal view, my customized UIToolbar no longer clickable.
Here is my design:
a customized UIToolbar at the bottom of the screen
top part of the screen is associated with a container view controller
[note] I added the top two items above into a root view controller and assigned to UIWinow's root view controller. The container view can be changed whenever toolbar items are clicked.
then, each toolbar item associated with a UINavigationController so that it's navigable.
within a UIViewController of a navigation, I present a view modally. The modal view does NOT cover the full screen as a result of the entire design...
after i dismiss the modal view, the UIToolbar items are no longer clickable.
I think the 'bug' is resided in where i presented the modal view, so I also tried to present modal view using root view controller, then there is also other issues...
maybe someone has more insight on this, that will be really appreciated :)
Thanks.
Try releasing the modalViewController as soon as its no longer needed. If you are using ARC, set it to nil. Allocate a new one when a modalView is needed.
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.
I've created my own ProfileUIViewController class that is a UINavigationControllerDelegate. I display this view in two ways:
From an IBAction within A-UIViewController.m, as a UIModalViewController. A-UIViewController has a UINavigationBar when it's loaded, but when I display the modal, it no longer has the navigation bar.
From clicking a table cell row within B-UIViewController.m, by pushing it onto the stack. B-UIViewController has a UINavigationBar when it's loaded, and the ProfileViewController keeps the navBar as desired :)
What I am looking to do is keep the UINavigationBar when the view is loaded as a modal in case 1, filling in INSIDE the UINavigationBar instead of laying over the entire view. (IE, I would like the modal to appear within A-UIViewConroller underneath the navBar - making it a smaller size)
Can someone help me with this? Do I need to make my own custom ModalViewController class - wouldn't this be ProfileUIViewController? Does it need some instance methods that I'm not giving it? Any direction would be great:)
The navigation bar is managed by the navigation controller, not by your view controller. When you push your view controller into the navigation controller, the navigation controller uses the information in the navigationItem to determine what to put in the navigation bar. But when you display your view controller modally, it's not inside any navigation controller so there is no bar.
One simple solution for the modal case is to create a new UINavigationController with your view controller as its root view controller, and display that modally instead of displaying your view controller directly.
Interface builder does not let me click and drag a Navigation Bar onto a Table View Controller!!! It is super frustrating.
All I want is a table view with an edit button (done in interface-builder). If this is not possible, then how do I add a navbar progammatically?
From the outline view, make sure your Table View Controller is selected.
Then go to the Editor menu, and click on the Embed In submenu, and choose Navigation Controller and voila. You have your navigation controller pointing to your tableview controller with a relationship built in.
For a table view with an edit button at the top, use a UINavigationController, with a UITableView as the rootView. That means you're going to make a custom UITableView subclass for your table view, and use that as the rootView of your UINavigationController instance. (Programatically, it's set with UINavigationController's -(id)initWithRootViewController. It's also settable through IB.)
Then, in your UITableView subclass, uncomment the following line:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Uncomment the following line to display an Edit button in the navigation bar for this view controller.
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
}
and voilà, your UINavigationController's view shows up as a table view with an edit button on the right side of the navigation bar.
Since the controller is at the top of the stack, there's no "back" button on the left, so you can use self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem for whatever UIBarButtonItem you create.
I agree that it's difficult to figure out how to do things like this in Interface Builder, but luckily it is possible to add a Navigation Bar and Bar Button Item to a Table View this way. Here's how to do it:
Drag a blank View (an instance of UIView) from the Library to the area near the top of the Table View. As you drag near the target area, Interface Builder will highlight it in blue to show you where to drop the View. Let go, and the View will be added as a subview of the Table View's header view.
Drag a Navigation Bar from the Library and drop it on the blank View you just added.
Drag a Bar Button Item from the Library and drop it onto the Navigation Bar.
EDIT
The problem with the above approach is that, as Bogatyr points out, the Navigation Bar will then scroll along with the Table View. Apple recommends using a custom subclass of UIViewController that owns both the Navigation Bar and an instance of UITableView resized to fit. Unfortunately, that means you would have to implement the UITableViewController behavior needed by your UIViewController subclass yourself.
Another approach that seems to work well is to create a custom subclass of UIViewController that owns a blank background view containing the Navigation Bar as well as a blank content view (an instance of UIView) that fits under the Navigation Bar. Your custom subclass would have an outlet pointing to an instance of UITableViewController in the same nib file.
This has the advantage of allowing all the view components to be created and configured in Interface Builder, and doesn't require implementing UITableViewController methods from scratch. The only detail you'd need to take care of in the Table View Controller's parent would be to add Table View as a subview of the parent's content view in viewDidLoad.
The parent could implement the action methods for the Navigation Bar's button items, and implement the delegate pattern if necessary.
From iOS6 onwards, you can use container view. So what you have to do is take View controller, add the navigation bar to it, then add a Container View to same view controller. It will automatically, add the new view controller link to your container view. Now simply delete that, and your table view controller in the story board. Now embed the table view controller to container view by control drag. Hope it helps.
First add a navigation controller and put the table view controller (as root view controller) onto the navigation controller. This is how it is done in Code because I don't use IB.
Why in the world you can't drag a navigationItem into a .xib file with File's Owner set to a subclass of UIViewController and hook the navigationItem up to the UIViewController's navigationItem outlet is beyond me. It seems like a real hole in IB / XCode integration. Because you can certainly drag an instance of ViewController to a xib file, and drag a navigationItem into the ViewController, and then set the title and barbuttonitems that way.
So if you want to define your UITableViewController subclass object's navigation bar in IB, you have to create your TableVC object in a xib file (not the one .xib file that contains the tableview for your UITableViewController, though!). You then either hook the TableVC object up to be an outlet of another object (like your application delegate), which works if you need just one instance of your TVC throughout the lifetime of your app, or if you want to dynamically create instances of your TableVC in code you load this extra .xib file manually via loadNibNamed:owner:options method of the NSBundle class.
These steps worked for me in iOS 9:
Add a View Controller to the Storyboard. Make UITableViewController as base Class.
Add a Navigation Bar object onto view controller at the top.
Add a Table View below Navigation bar.
Add a Table View Cell into Table View.
Add constraints.
This is the other easy way ;
Choose your TableViewController screen on storyboard.
Click Size Inspector symbol on the right menu and find Simulated Size
Change Fixed to Free Form
You can add navigation bar easily.