How to closw webView? - iphone

I am designing a webView with a close button. When the application is launched, it opens the given url. When the button is touched, i want to close the webView.
I need some button event which closes the webView. Thank you for your answers.

UIWebView inherits from UIView. So the answer is: It depends!
If you're using a UINavigationController and used
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:newUIWebController];
you can close your UIView by using
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
If you're using some other method to display your view (like addSubView) you can utilize the corresponding method like removeFromSuperview.

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Button touchupinside action done automatically on view appear?

I want Button action done automatically when a view load. Is it possible?
The other answers are correct in that setting the action that your button is tied to, then in your viewDidLoad:, call that function will work. I will just chime in with another method for others info.
You can send it a control event telling it that the button should act as if it has been pressed:
[button sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
This is useful when you do not have an outlet to the button. For instance, I created an app where the user can press on a web view and launch a youtube video. It was also required that if the user presses a "video" button, then the same youtube video would launch. Basically, I had to fire a press event on the web view. So i searched through its views and found the button, from there I called the above line, and the webview pushes a video view controller for the youtube video.
Certainly Yes. Call your method as
assuming your method declaration as
-(IBAction)yourButtonTapEvent:(id)sender;
[self yourButtonTapEvent:nil];
Yes, in your viewDidAppear method, just call the action you are providing for that specific button.
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self yourButtonAction:nil];
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
}

iPhone: How to show pop-up windows and dismiss them

In my Universal App I have a long UITableView with custom cells..and for some cells I may need to show some long pop-up explanaiton about that cell when for instance user clicks a "i" label on the cell. In iPad popover view seems excellent choice for this, but don't know how can I implement this on iPhone, what are the possibilities? Also I want to spend as less time as possible when making it work for iPad- popover view. I want to re-use some of the code or logic i use on iPhone
Things came up to my mind;
-Show explaination in alert shild, but the current look and feel of alert shield is ugly can I customize it however I like and show wherever I line on screen and if I can make it scrollable;
-Or maybe I can make a uitextview to show on top, but then how will I dismiss it, I will need some buttons there..which sounds tricky.
-UIActionsheet with a uitextview on it, is reasonable here?
Also I found this code in S.O but dont know how to use this in my case;
newView.frame = CGRectMake(60, 140, 200, 200);
[parentView addSubview:newView];
Have a look at http://iosdevelopertips.com/open-source/ios-open-source-popover-api-for-iphone-wepopover.html. It's a Popover component for iPhone. I think it works best in your case. You can Google "iphone popover" for more options.
We built an open source library for iPad-like popovers on iPhone allowing you to customise the look and feel of the popovers and place any view or controller inside it.
Watch the project on Github and download it at http://www.50pixels.com/blog/labs/open-library-fppopover-ipad-like-popovers-for-iphone/
On dismissing it, see the following instructions:
Know when a new popover is displayed
- (void)presentedNewPopoverController:(FPPopoverController *)newPopoverController
shouldDismissVisiblePopover:(FPPopoverController*)visiblePopoverController;
Use this delegate method to know when a new different popover is displayed. If you want to dismiss the old popover, and release it, send the dismiss message inside this method.
- (void)presentedNewPopoverController:(FPPopoverController *)newPopoverController
shouldDismissVisiblePopover:(FPPopoverController*)visiblePopoverController
{
[visiblePopoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
[visiblePopoverController autorelease];
}
Know when the popover is dismissed
- (void)popoverControllerDidDismissPopover:(FPPopoverController *)popoverController;
Use this delegate method to know when the popover is dismissed. This could happen when the user taps outside the popover or when a dismiss message is sent by other actions.
Typically if you used a UIPopover on the iPad you use present a Modal view controller on the iPhone.
So if you create a subclass of UIViewController (e.g. called MyViewController), with the necessary subviews such as a UILabel.
MyViewController *infoViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
//pass data to the new view controller, e.g.
//[infoViewController setInfoText:...];
[self presentModalViewController:infoViewController animated:YES];
[infoViewController release];

TabBar Application with a View that has a UIButton on the View to goto another View outside the TabBar

I'm new to iPhone development, and multiple views (xib or nib) are really confusing me. This is what i'm trying to achieve...
using TabBarControllerAppDelegate
Have 5 different TabBar Items and have created 5 different Views thru the TabBarController
The First View has a UIButton that is a Next button that needs to go to another view called View2.XIB.
I setup a new UIViewController which references the View2 and an IBAction for the switchPage, etc but not able to get it to do anything when clicking on the button.
All of My TabBar buttons work but not able to Navigate to anything outside of the Tabbar
Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Anyone have any examples
IBAction switchPageButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
[self.tabbarcontroller.tabBar setSelectedItem:[self.tabbarcontroller.tabBar.items objectAtIndex:1]];
here 1 means ur 2nd tabbar
}
It is difficult to find the problem without the code, but I will assume your action code for the switchPage button is incorrect. You should use code similar to the following:
- IBAction switchPageButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
ViewController2 *view2VC = [[ViewController2 alloc] initWithNibName:#"View2" bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:nview2VC animated:YES];
[view2VC release];
}
If you are confident your method works, then you will want to verify that the action is hooked up correctly. The easiest way to do this is to place a breakpoint on the method and run the app in Debug. When you click the button, the debugger should break on your method, if it doesn't, you will need to check your connections in Interface Builder.

how to open an in app browser like the mailcomposion popup

is it possible to open an in-app browser that loads a pdf and the takes you back to the nib just like the mailcomposition does with the in-app email? If so, can anyone please help.
You should be able to use a UIWebView controlled by a custom UIViewController, which you present using the presentModalViewController:animated: method in the view controller that wants to pop up the PDF.
1) Create a .xib and corresponding view controller (both named WebViewViewController here). This should include a UIWebView (to display the PDF) and a UIButton (to close the modal view & return to your original view).
2) Present your WebViewViewController as a modal view. This will "pop-over" your current view with the new view.
WebViewViewController *webViewVC = [[WebViewViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"WebViewViewController" bundle:nil];
//I am showing it over a Navigation Controller, you may be using something different.
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:webViewVC animated:YES];
[webViewVC release];
3) In your WebViewViewController, wire up an IBAction method to your "Close" button. In that method use this to dismiss the "pop-over" view.
//
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Let me know if you need help with loading the PDF into the UIWebView.

How to create a Main Menu that links to another view? (When developing iPhone Apps)

I'm a newbie programmer and I have played around with the SDK for a while. How do you create a homepage that has a button that will bring you to another view (the content of the app)??? If you know can you list the steps in order or link a tutorial site (It woul be awesome if the steps had code with it I needed). Thanks!
I would recommend getting a good book on iPhone programming. What you want to do is set up a UINavigationController, add the button to the first view, set the action of the button's touchUpInside to call the showContent method. Then implement the showContent method to push the Content view controller.
- (IBAction) showContent{
ContentViewController *myContentController = [[ContentViewController alloc] init];
myContentController.title = #"Content";
[self.navigationController pushViewController:myContentController animated:YES];
[myContentController release];
}
Have a read up on the documentation for pushViewController and UINavigationControllers, then follow this tutorial.