Is it possible to add navigation controller to a view controller? - iphone

My app have
AppDelegate ----> added MyViewController.view
MyViewController contains UINavigationController,
i.e. MyViewController.view = MyViewController.aNavigationController.view
With this I able to see the added view correctly
Then I created a NextViewController
Added one button to MyViewController with action
On button click , i wrote code for navigating to next view using pushViewController
But it's not working, After clicking button the same view is getting displayed
Please help, if anybody gone through same issue and resolved it.
Is it possible to add navigation controller to a view controller?
EDIT:
#raaz thanks for reply ...
I tried by the way u specified here i.e.
Added a UINavigationController to MyViewController using IB
Created outlet for UINavigation controller in MyViewcontroller.h
Did required connection for IBOutlet, also created IBAction for button
Then On button click , created object of NextViewController and push the next view controller to navigation controller
But still , App window shows the current view and do not displays the next view
My query is that , can we add a navigation controller to this "MyViewController" i.e. UIViewController ???

As you are not providing what you are implementing in you code so it difficult to say what is you problem
Solution:
//First import the NextViewContoller.h in your MyViewController.m
//Then implement this method in your application
-(IBAction)goToNext:(id)sender{
NextViewContoller *nxt=[[NextViewContoller alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:nxt animated:YES];
}
//Finally release nxt in dealloc

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popToRootViewControllerAnimated doesn't modify attached navigationItem

My UIViewController calls a function on my rootViewController which then called popToRootViewControllerAnimated to return the view to the rootController. This all works - great!
Unfortunately the UINavigationItem (toolbar at the top) seems to display a mashup of both the rootViewController and the UIViewController that has just been removed.
What do I need to do? What have I done wrong?
The navigation bar doesn't remember changes that were made to it, so when you push a new controller, the navigation bar is altered to give the title of the new view controller, but it doesn't store what was there for the previous view controller.
You will need to recreate the items in the toolbar each time you come back to the view controller that has custom items.
You might be able to do this on viewWillAppear instead of viewDidLoad. I can't recall exactly, but you should recreate custom controls on navigation toolbar because it does not get preserved when a new view controller is pushed.
It seems that calling popToRootViewController from the rootViewController messes things up. TO rectify this I called the following from within the calling UIViewController
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Loading another UIView directly from the main ViewController

I am in the process of creating an application. In the main ViewController I have created the menu. But I want to have a login screen (UIView) to appear before the menu is visible.
But because the menu loads as soon as I run the application I have decided to create another UIView controller and have that loaded on top of the main ViewController.
Therefore at the end of my main ViewController viewDidLoad I have added the following code to open on top of that view the login view
LoginPageView *loginPageView = [[LoginPageView alloc] initWithNibName:#"LoginPageView" bundle:nil];
loginPageView.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:loginPageView animated:YES];
As I know the purpose of that code is to present another view, but unfortunately the login view does not appear. Only the main ViewController load.
Can anyone help me on that? Have you realised what exactly I want?
Thanks a lot
In the viewDidLoad method, the view exists, but there is no guarantee that the view is already part of the view hierarchy of your application. In fact, almost ain't.
What you can try is take that code in the viewWillAppear: or viewDidAppear:.
Make a UINavigationController. Use this as your window's root view controller. Set the UINavigationController to not show the navigation bar.
Set the navigation controller's child view controller to your login view controller.
When the user logs in successfully, create your main view controller and push it, like this:
MainViewController *mainVC = [[MainViewController alloc] initWithWhatever...];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:mainVC animated:YES];
When the user logs out, you can just do this to get back to the login VC:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

How is a navigation controller added to an existing view

I have a tableView and want to add a new viewController so that when the user selects an item the new view shows an image and the bar at the top will allow the user to go back to the tableView.
This navigation bar at the top will be present in both views. Is it also possible to add a button e.g. share to it and link my own actions to the button?
Thanks.
Your tableView should live inside a UIViewController subclass that is itself inside of a UINavigationController. You can get this structure set up for you by selecting the "navigation-based" app in the project creation wizard. Or you can create this structure yourself in code. In your app delegate, create a UINavigationController, and set your app's first ViewController as the root view controller. Then pushing and popping view controllers is easy, just call:
MyDetailVC *vc = [[[MyDetailVC alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyDetailVC" bundle:nil] autorelease];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:YES];
EDIT: so, to clarify, you don't "add navigation controllers to existing views," you "push and pop instances of your view controllers on to the navigation controller's stack."

Push UITabViewController from UIViewController is possible?

my app first viewController is UIViewController.
and when user click button firstView disappear and push UITabViewController
is it possible?
i can't find how to push UITabViewController from UIViewController.
UPDATE sorry, I misread TabVC for UITableViewController. Do you mean UITableViewController or UITabBarController? I'll leave my answer below anyways.
In this instance, it's usually best to have a UITabBarController be the root view object. Although it can be done, it's a messier implementation, in my opinion.
I would in fact make the UITabBarController the root and display the UIViewController modally from that UITabBarController on launch.
The user would be presented with the UIViewController and when they clicked the button, dismiss that modal view, revealing the UITabBarController.
Just use a UINavigationController.
Use the navigation controller to push the tableView as the second level in the hierarchy. As a bonus you'll get the back button for 'free' and you don't have to worry about delegates for getting back to the original UIViewController.
you may try this:
self.tabBarController.selectedViewController
= [self.tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:2];
it should work because selectedViewController property contains view of selected tab.
First of all you have view controller . And make Second view controller which contain tabbarcontroller . Now just push second view controller . And add tabbarcontroller's view as a subview to second view controller .
Hope you gets it ..

Help how to load UINavigationViewController from UIViewController

Here goes stupid question again :(
I am trying to create a sample app that loads UIViewController when the app loads and the view contains a button to load UINavigationViewController.
Now I created a project with "Window-based Application" and added "RootViewController" in the project with .m, .h, and .xib.
Next I added a view and a button in the "RootViewController.xib" file and it runs ok. After that, I added "UIViewController subclass" file naming "NavViewController" with .h, .m and .xib files.
Also I added - (IBAction)buttonPressed:(id)sender function in the "RootViewController" classes to load NavigationViewController.
Here is the code of the "buttonPressed:".
- (IBAction)buttonPressed:(id)sender {
NavViewController *navViewController = [[NavViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"NavViewController" bundle:nil];
self.navController = navViewController;
[self.view insertSubview:navViewController.view atIndex:0];
[navViewController release];
}
When I "build and go," it runs fine initially until I press the button. When I press button, program terminates it.
What am I doing wrong? Please help...
Thank you.
What are you doing wrong? Designing your app in a non-standard way - you are not supposed to be able to do this - the NavigationController is in charge!
Why would you have a button that then adds a navigation controller? - it goes against the user interface guidelines. I found it hard to get to grips with the interface guidelines to begin with but you really must because it will make your app so much more usable.
If you need a navigation controller then add it to the view to begin with - or create a new view with the navigation controller. Honestly try it out and you will feel the user interface feels much better.
If you really want a button that adds a navigation controller to the window then do the following:
Keep a reference to the AppDelegate in your code
Use this reference and pass in your current view controller to a method called reloadMainViewWithNavBar:(UNViewController*) viewController
This new method should remove the old mainViewController and create a NavigationController
using your viewController as the root view conroller
add the navigation controller view to window view
The navController has no view set in the nib. A UINavigationcontroller needs a root view. In the nib, connect the navigation controller to a another view controller.
In addition to the fix mentioned above, what you really want to do is create the first view controller contained in the navigation controller - but hide the navigation bar until the button press causes it to unhide. You cannot easily add a navigation controller to a view you are in.