I want a single startup view with a button and a welcome screen. When the button is pressed I then want to navigate to a second view which contains a table view and toolbar.
I've tried creating a ViewController but my button is shown on all views. I just want a single view, then when it's pressed i go to the next view and the 'real' app starts. Can someone please try and explain the best architecture to do this?
(like in chapter 6 of beginning iPhone 3 Development by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche )
Thanks
Are u developing for the iphone or ipad, if its for the iphone then have u looked into UINavigationControllers? These allow you to interchange from view controller to view controller in an easy fashion.
So for your problem I would have 2 view controllers one for the startup and one for the table view view controller. Assuming you set up the Navigation controller right (which you can easily by starting a new project with a navigation based viewcontroller through xcode), then you can use [navigationController pushViewController:viewCOntroller) method to present your view controllers view, also viewcontrollers have their navigationController as a property, so when the button is clicked all you should have to do it
new up the viewcontroller whose view you want to display
and call (from the current view controller ) [self.navigationController pushViewController:] method to display your second view controller.
release the view controller u just pushed
Navigation Controllers also have a navigationBar property which you can use to go back and forth between view controllers.. heres the class reference and it contains a guide of how to use these..Navigation Controller Reference
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Im writing an application which the main view controller is a UIViewController. It has some icons in a grid and I want to dismiss (sliding down) this grid when one of the icons is clicked. This I've done already. The problem is: when the grid is dismisseed I want another View to come from the top of the screen. This view is in this same root view controller. But I want to display the content of other view controllers in this view. For example: I want this view to show a UINavigationController with a UITableView inside it, so the user can navigate through TableViews.
I'm doing this:
HorariosViewController *horarios = [[HorariosViewController alloc] init];
[vuashView addSubview:horarios.view];
HorariosViewController is a UINavigationViewController. It shows me only a blue NavigationBar and changes like self.navigationItem.title = #"Title" won't work.
Thanks!
You can show another view controller's views as subviews but their outlets and actions remain linked to their original view controller unless you write code to make new connections, so self.whatever shouldn't be expected to affect the other view controller's properties.
(Also, if HorariosViewController is a UINavigationController, it shouldn't be created as a UIViewController.)
One approach is to have the navigation controller already there, with the icon grid presented modally on top of it. (you can set the view up this way without animations, so the user doesn't see the navigation controller underneath).
Then, when it's time for the grid to go away, it can call dismissModalViewController on itself with animation.
I am currently developing an app that has a TabBarController and each of the tabs contains a navigation controller. This way on each tab I can show details of the rows selected on a view by pushing the viewcontroller to the navigation controller. Each of the views also have an UINavigationItem above them. In this navigation item I placed a button.
But now I would like to change the viewcontroller for a certain tab, when clicking the button in the UINavigationItem, BUT the view(controller) I want to change to has to act like the root view controller of that tab.
So I do not want to push another view on the navigation controller, but just switch to that view (in the same tab) and have that act as the root view controller.
I cannot find a good way to do this, with actually having the views work correctly. They either do not dealloc when I switch views (which would be nice, because I want to keep memory usage to a minimum).
One way of solving this, might be that I add more tabs to my TabBar Controller and just switch to the right tabs when I click the button, but that would be a last resort.
Not really sure if I described this correctly, but I was wondering what the best way is to do this. My preference is having 3 viewcontrollers and switch between them.
Hopefully I understand your question correctly: you want to basically 'reset' your navigation controller to have a new root.
You can do this by telling your navigation controller that you want to display a new set of view controllers:
[navigationController setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObject:newViewController]
animated:NO];
This will get rid of all view controllers currently on that navigation controller's stack, and reset the root view to newViewController.
I am having a bit of trouble with my navigationController in my app. I am using the Kal Calendar component - https://github.com/klazuka/Kal.
I have created the view controller and have go it to appear in the correct position within in my app i.e. Click on a new tab and init the rootviewcontroller as the KalViewController and it sort of loads correctly but the back button is visible on the navBar when it should be the rootView and it is clickable 5 times before going to the true root, it's hard to explain but I have no idea what is wrong.
i have tried it with a table view and clicking on the first element in the tableView takes you to the calendar which works perfectly but this is not what I want/need in the app.
Thanks.
It sounds like you have both a UINavigationController and a UITabBarController. Make sure that the tab bar controller is your “main” view and that there are separate UINavigationControllers for each view controller in the tab bar. The different tabs’ view controllers should not be in the same navigation controller’s view heirarchy.
I have 2 page controls in my app, one for category and when i click details button of that category other page control comes.
I have pushed the first view controller and used present modal view controller. Now a need to go back to the home page from the category page control but the view did load and view will appear wont work. That is where i have added my navigation bar programmatically. is there any way i can call them?
i am new to iphone programming. Please help me if you can....
Thankyou
You can use delegate.
Set the object that created your new view controller as delegate. When you presenting your view controller add it to navigation bar. Setup your view controller with cancel/done buttons and set them up to pass the messages to delegate.
When user selects cancel/done the delegate method is called. Delegate can then dismiss the view controller.
See the example in View Controller programming guide for iPhone OS.
You'll have to setup the buttons and call to delegate when you create your view controller.
If you have used "present model view controller"
then you required to use "dismis model view controller" instead of using "pop view controller" for going back...
I've been reading the Head First iPhone Development book and I understand how to get to a new view from a table but how exactly would I be able to get to a new view or view controller, by just simply pressing a button? Is that even possible?
I mean there are some apps where you click a button, not a table cell and it loads a new view. How exactly is that done? If someone could help out a newbie it would be greatly appreciated!
I think what you're looking for is a modal vew controller. THis presents a modal view like you described on top of everything else. If rootViewController is the view controller that is displaying your current view, and myNewViewController the view controller you want to display modally:
[rootViewController presentModalViewController:myNewViewController animated:YES];
There's plenty of examples of this kind of thing on the net, just search for presentModalViewController
Like bpapa said in the comments, it's hard to be specific without code. However, generally what you want to do is:
Build a navigation controller that contains one original view.
Create a button in your original view using the Interface Builder.
Build a callback method (usually defined with IBAction) that is run when the button is pushed.
In that callback method, create a new view and push it onto the navigation controller the same way you would using a table view cell.
Alternately, if you only want one level of hierarchy, you could use a modal view controller; instead of pushing onto the navigation controller in the last step, just present the modal view controller.
The general answer is that you have an object that manages which view controller loads when.
The most commonly used is the UINavigationController. It is a UIViewController that instead of controlling views, controls other view controllers. It works like a simple stack. You push views you want to display onto the nav's controller stack and when you want them to disappear you pop them off.
A common (though sloppy) way of using a nav is to make it a property of your app delegate. Then anywhere in your app you can references it by:
UINavigationController *nav=[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] navigationController];
The view controller for the first the user sees is held in the nav's topViewController property. If you want to load a view based on a user action in the topViewController.view, you would have something like this:
- (IBAction) loadNextView:(id) sender{ // Action called by a a UI event such as a button press.
UINavigationController *nav=[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] navigationController];
UIViewController *nextViewController=...// load from nib, connect with IBOutlet, create programmatically
[nav pushViewController:nextView animated:YES];
}
The first view disappears to be replaced by the next one. To return to the first view, you have a method in the next view controller like so:
- (IBAction) unloadSelf:(id) sender{ // Action called by a a UI event such as a button press.
UINavigationController *nav=[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] navigationController];
[nav popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
... and the nav returns you automatically to the previous view regardless of what that view was.
When you first start out, especially if you use Interface Builder, the structure of the app is largely hidden. Behind the scenes all view controllers and their views exist in a hierarchy of some kind that leads back up to the app delegate. You should train yourself to think in hierarchal terms even if it is not immediately obvious how that hierarchy is constructed.