I need to make a button to dismiss the child view controller from a pushViewController. The action is exactly like the left (back) button on the top navigation bar.
How can I dismiss a pushViewController? Which method should I use ?
Thanks.
UINavigationController's popViewControllerAnimated: method should do it.
In my case where [self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"showAllContacts" sender:self]; pushes a new ViewController, in order to close(dismiss) that view controller which has been pushed I use:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
This is called for a custom button which I added to the navigation bar!
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I have looked everywhere for this.
I have a navigation controller. I like using the navigation controller with all the animation however the bar irritates me so i have disabled it.
I would like to create a UIButton that will push the navigation controller back a page instead.
Is this possible? can someone tell me how to achieve this and get hold of the correct item that allows to push back to the previous view.
Thanks
Create a button with a target on a function that do:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]
Since navigation controller works as a stack your current view controller is poped out from the stack and the previous view controller is showed
Look at the UINavigationController documentation, you can have your UIButton call the navigation controller's popViewControllerAnimated:
Did you try these methods in the UINavigationController class:
– pushViewController:animated:
– popViewControllerAnimated:
– popToRootViewControllerAnimated:
– popToViewController:animate
Call the pop methods from your button's action method.
Assuming you have a valid reference to the Nav Controller, set up the button action to use:
Pops view controllers until the specified view controller is at the top of the navigation stack.
- (NSArray *)popToViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
When I click the table row, go back to previous view without clicking back button.
I try
[self.navigationController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
it's not working. How to dismiss pushViewController ?
dismissModalViewControllerAnimated is used to dismiss a Modal View Controller. These are the view controllers that slide up from the bottom of the screen. An example would be when you tap the button to compose a new email in the Mail app.
If you want the navigation controller to pop back to the previous view controller try using
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Here's a link to the documentation for UINavigationController
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UINavigationController_Class/
[self.navigationController popViewController:YES]
With that line you are dismissing a modal view. That is not the same thing as popping controllers from the navigation controller stack.
You should instead do this:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
This will pop the top controller.
Here is a link to the documentation.
I'm trying to implement a navigation controller with some hierarchical views. I want to use a regular UIViewController to present choices for drilling down, I don't want to use the navigation bar - I want to have my own, custom buttons for returning back up a level.
I see examples like:
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:nextViewController animated:YES];
and my questions are these: Is navigationController a property of all UIViewControllers? Can I refer to self.navigationController regardless of the view that's on the stack? If I'm at an arbitrary view, can I have a button action that contains something like [self.navigationController popToRootViewController animated:YES];
Each view I present will need a button to return to the previous view, or to the root view, depending on the situation. I want to create that button in each view controller and control which view in the stack it returns to. Am I on the right track?
Is navigationController a property of all UIViewControllers?
Yes.
Can I refer to self.navigationController regardless of the view that's on the stack?
Every UIViewController on the UINavigationController's stack will return the UINavigationController object when calling navigationController on it.
If I'm at an arbitrary view, can I have a button action that contains something like [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Yes. popToRootViewControllerAnimated: will take the user to the root UIViewController for the UINavigationController, and you can use [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; to just pop off the top UIViewController. This last one does the same as tapping the Back UIBarButtonItem.
Am I on the right track?
Yes :)
I have created View based application, here i need to navigate between views when button pressed.
so in first view controller i have created action for button pressed.
-(IBAction)loadSecondView:(id)sender
{
SecondView *sView = [[SecondView alloc]initWithNibName:#"SecondView" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:sView animated:YES];
[sView release];
}
this code is not working, anything i am missing,
i can do this by [self.view addSubview:sView]; but i need navigation effect.
Thanks in advance.
You can't just hook a UIView instance to a navigation controller, that's not how they work.
Take a look at the "Navigation-based Application" template in Xcode, to learn how navigation controllers work.
You can use view controllers while hiding the navigation bar:
[[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
You can then map UIButton instances to selectors that push or pop view controllers, while keeping the navigation bar hidden.
These button instances are subviews of the view controller's view property.
Hiding the navigation bar can help provide the illusion that you are not using a navigation controller, while giving you all the functionality of the navigation controller.
Alex is right, if you create just a "View Based Application" project, no UINavigationController was created so when you push something on it nothing happen, that's normal.
You have to create a UINavigationController and make you main view its rootViewController, then you can push on it a new viewController.
I have got a solution for this,
In View based application the appdelegate file creates object for, view controller and added that view to main window, to do our task, delete the controller in mainwindow.xib and add a UINavigation controller,and create a object to it, and connect outlet to it,and then add this navigation controller view as a sub view,
its work fine.
I am having trouble getting my modal view controllers to display properly. I have a parent view controller that is the delegate for modal view A. In modal view A I am presenting modal view B, and having the delegate dimiss modal view A.
When modal view B appears it seems to display but the screen dims, and the UI locks up, but the app doesn't crash. I set animation settings to NO and I am still getting the same issue.
Order of events:
Parent View show Modal View A
Modal View A shows Modal View B in Modal View A controller
Parent View dismisses Modal View A in Modal View A controller via delegation
This is where my UI hangs, I can see Modal View B but can't click on it, or do anything
You could use this
[[[self presentingViewController] presentingViewController] dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
A modal view controller must have a parent view controller in order to display. If you dismiss the parent view controller ("modal view A", in your case), behavior will be unpredictable.
If you're certain that nested modal view controllers are what you really want, you'll need to dismiss them in reverse order; wait until you're done with "B", then dismiss "B", then dismiss "A".
If you don't need the modal presentation style, you would be better off using a UINavigationController to maintain your stack of view controllers.
Update: here is how I would rearrange your order of events. Presented as code for clarity.
[parentView
presentViewController:modalViewControllerA
animated:YES]
[modalViewControllerA
presentViewController:modalViewControllerB
animated:YES]
[modalViewControllerA
dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]
[parentView
dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]
Solved by having my parentViewController act as the delegate. Here is my order:
[parentView presentViewController:modalViewControllerA animated:YES]
[parentView dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES]
[parentView presentViewController:modalViewControllerB animated:YES]
//Modal B dismisses himself
In my delegate method, I needed to make sure that I dismissed Modal A before presenting Modal B
For iOS 6+ and - presentViewController:animated:completion:
[[[self presentingViewController] presentingViewController] dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
in Swift 2.1
you can try
self.presentingViewController?.presentingViewController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
works for me
View A -> View B -> View C
Apply this code in view C , you will be landing to View A
I have a main view and need to show a modalview1 where a button present a modalview2. Looks the same you needed.
But there is a button in the modalview2 which forwards to the main view.
So the solution is:
Main view presents UINavigationController with modalview1 as rootController. Then modalview1 present modalview2 by "[self.navigationController modalview2 animated:YES];".
When modal2 needs to forward to the main view, just make "[self.parentViewController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];" and UINavigationController is hidden.
Hope it's clear.
Simple:
Dismiss all views:
[self dismissModalViewController animated:YES];
[self dismissModalViewController animated:YES];
[self dismissModalViewController animated:YES];
[self dismissModalViewController animated:YES];
(one for each added modal view)
then present a new modal view controller
may be after long but.. I am in same problem and this is the only post with some answer.
I am not getting what you mean by setting delegate of a parentViewController to self is not allowed .
what I am doing right now is
[self presentModalViewController:ViewControllerA animated:YES];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];// inside ViewControllerA
[self presentModalViewController:ViewControllerB animated:YES];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];// inside ViewControllerB
Problem is after viewControllerA , viewControllerB view is not presenting.
Thanks,
Apple document about dismiss(animated:completion:) method.
In section Discussion, it said:
any intermediate view controllers are simply removed from the stack.
If you present several view controllers in succession, thus building a stack of presented view controllers, calling this method on a view controller lower in the stack dismisses its immediate child view controller and all view controllers above that child on the stack. When this happens, only the top-most view is dismissed in an animated fashion; any intermediate view controllers are simply removed from the stack. The top-most view is dismissed using its modal transition style, which may differ from the styles used by other view controllers lower in the stack.
In other words, if the view controller stack like following
Root -> A -> B -> C -> D ... -> Z
D calls dismiss method, all view controllers behide D, ex: (E ... Z), will be removed from the stack.