In my app I have a tabBarController and in it a navigationController. One of my view controllers is a TableViewController and under the navigationBar i added a uiView as a subview to the view like this:
rectangleInfo = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame].size.width,26)]; rectangleInfo.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth); rectangleInfo.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor]; [self.view addSubview: rectangleInfo];
when I click on a cell in the tableView I push an UIViewController like this:
[feedViewController setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve];
[[self navigationController] presentModalViewController:feedViewController animated:YES];
After i pop the modal view for a couple of times with it from the tableViewNavigationController disappears the rectangleInfo UIView.
I pop my modalview like this:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
[self setModalTransitionStyle:UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
any idea why that subview (rectangleInfo) of the tableViewController dissapears after i remove the modal view from the superview?
thank you in advance.
I'm curious as to what you are trying to do with your rectangleInfo view? By the size of it, it looks like you are trying to mimic the status bar. Why? You can just hide the status bar if you want.
Another thing you can try is to create the UIView visually in Interface Builder. Don't actually add it to your main view, but create it as a separate UIView in the XIB with the appropriate size, etc. Then create an outlet for it in Xcode and connect it. Next, add it as a subview in code when your view controller loads. See if that makes a difference. This is especially strange since you say it only disappears after popping it several times. Do you get the same problem if you push and pop the non-modal way, e.g.:
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:feedViewController animated:YES];
[[self navigationController] popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
i solved the problem by implementing correctly the viewDidLoad and viewDidUnload methods for creating and releasing my subviews.
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I have an activity view that I have added in AppDelegate class to tap bar:
[self.mainTabBar.view addSubview: spinner];
When there are connection problems it is visible in each view controller and is spinning.
There is some button at certain view controller, makes to present some modal view controller.
That modal view controller overlaps the spinner. How to make that spinner always be on top of all views or at least on top of that modal view controller?
I tried to make such a thing in view controller that presents modal view controller:
[self presentModalViewController:selectionViewController animated:YES];
[self.view bringSubviewToFront:[self.tabBarController.view viewWithTag:15]];
Not works.
Add the view to the main window.
UIWindow* mainWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
[mainWindow addSubview: spinner];
While phix23's answer is correct, here is a more complete example:
//The view you want to present
UIViewController *viewControllerYouWantToPresentOnTop = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
//Create transparent host view for presenting the above view
UIWindow* mainWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
UIViewController *viewControllerForPresentation = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
[[viewControllerForPresentation view] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[[viewControllerForPresentation view] setOpaque:FALSE];
[mainWindow addSubview:[viewControllerForPresentation view]];
//Make your transparent view controller present your actual view controller
[viewControllerForPresentation presentViewController:viewControllerYouWantToPresentOnTop animated:TRUE];
Remember to clean up after yourself when you don't need these any longer.
This code can be used from anywhere in your app, even a library :)
An app normally displays its content within a single window throughout its life.
But there are situations where an extra window may be used to add content on top of everything else. Apple ensures UIAlertView always stays on top by adding it in a separate window.
UIView *contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:contentFrame];
contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
UIWindow *window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x,y,contentFrame.size.width, contentFrame.size.height)];
window.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert;
[window addSubview:contentView];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
Show and hide your window by setting window.hidden = Yes or No as needed.
This will always show your contentView on top of everything else in the app.
The modal controller is in a completely different layer, you cannot make any subview of the presenting controller to overlap it.
Use a UIAlertView with a spinner inside. The alerts are displayed in a layer which overlaps even modal controllers.
Place the view to the keyWindow, as suggested above. You might also need to set Presentation style of the modal view as Current Context, otherwise, it can still pop on top
I have a viewController and I am trying to add a subview to it such that it will cover the whole screen, however this has a navigationController in it so that adding a subView always adds it below the navigation bar, is there a way to simulate a presentModalViewController in cases like this?
You can add the subview to the view controller and then hide the navigation controller from the top or you could still push it to the navigation controller and then just remove the navigation controller from the top again and then you could use pop to go back and forth.
the code to push a view controller is
if(!self.YOURVIEWCONTROLLER){
self.YOURVIEWCONTROLLER = [[YOURVIEWCONTROLLER alloc] initWithNibName:#"YOURVIEWCONTROLLER" bundle:nil] autorelease];
}
[self.navigationController pushViewController:self.YOURVIEWCONTROLLER animatedLYES];
and on the next NEXTView.m add
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
remember to create an instance of YOURVIEWCONTROLLER in the .h file. Or you could do a simple
[self.view addSubview:NEWVIEW];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];
at least at bear minimum the line for making the navigationController hide is there.
I seem to recall once having a similar problem, and I seem to recall the solution was to add the subview to the navigation controller (as the view controller is already a sub view of the navigation controller) rather than adding it to the view controller.
I recently have similar problems and after spending 5 to 10 min I get the exact solution...
According to my solution I simply add my custom UIView to subview of navigationController.view
Like This :-
[self.navigationController.view addSubview:popOver];
popOver - Your custom UIView
Happy Codding :)
Add the view to the superview of the navigationController's view.
[navigationController.view.superview addSubview:viewController.view];
Perhaps you could hide the navigation bar when you add the subview. I have a method on my ViewController that looks like this:
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
UIView *v = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
v.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
[self.view addSubview:v];
When that code executes, my navigation bar disappears and a full screen red view replaces it.
I have a subclass of TTMessageController that shows ... BUT it is not animated even though it should be. The code that displays the modal view looks like this (where PostToWebMessageController is the subclass of TTMessageController:
if (self.toWebMsgController == nil) {
self.toWebMsgController = [[PostToWebMessageController alloc] init];
}
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navController pushViewController:self.toWebMsgController animated:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];
What happens though is this: The screen goes black ... the keyboard scrolls up into view ... and THEN the TTMessageController view shows up (not animated). When I dismiss the view via a Cancel button the screen goes black and then just disappears (no animation again).
Any ideas why this is happening? I've this with a number of other TT* controllers and I can't get one to animate right with showing modally.
Thanks
UPDATE:
This is happening in EVERY UIViewController that I try to present modally. Screen goes black, keyboard animates upwards and then view displays. Any ideas why this might be happening???
A day to figure this out ... hopefully someone will benefit from my pains!
Here is what is happening:
The UIViewController calling presentModalViewController is itself nested inside a UIScrollView that is contained in ANOTHER UIViewController. Apparently, cocoa touch doesn't much like this. Anyhow, to rectify the problem I did the following:
Add a property of type UIViewController to the UIViewController that will present a modal view controller (e.g. #property (nonatomic, retain) UIViewController *owningController;)
Set that property = to the topmost UIViewController (the one that contains the UIScrollView in this case)
In the UIViewController that shows the modal view ... change this
[self presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
to this ...
[owningController presentModalViewController:controller animated:YES];
I'm not sure why you are using a UINavigationController. If it is because you would like your toWebMsgController controller to have a nav bar when it loads in the modal view, try the following alterations to your code:
if (self.toWebMsgController == nil) {
self.toWebMsgController = [[PostToWebMessageController alloc] init];
}
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:toWebMsgController];
//[navController pushViewController:self.toWebMsgController animated:NO];
[self presentModalViewController:navController animated:YES];
If you don't require a nav bar in your modal view, you probably don't need a UINavigationController at all.
I had same issue.
Check that you root controller (if you present controller over it) for presentationStyle DOES NOT set to UIModalPresentationCurrentContext
I have a dilema, I want to present to the user a semi-transparent view.
I found out by experimenting that if I simply pushed the transparent view to the top of my NavigationController's stack, that it would not render the transparency level I wanted. So I decided to simply add the view as a subview of the current view at the top of the stack.
This solution works, the view below is still visible, and the View is 'semi-modal'. The problem is, if the parent view inherits from UITableViewController (as mine does), then the view I 'push' onto it, does not cover the navigation bar at the top.
I really don't want to get into a situation where I am forced to enable / disable controls on the navigation bar every time I push this view, so I was wondering, if anyone knew of any solutions that I could use so that the view I push onto the UITableViewController will actually 'push over' the navigation bar?
Funny, I was just doing the same thing yesterday. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible. Once the modal view controller is in place, the previous view becomes hidden.
See this previous question on the topic.
You can still use the view controller and NIB files you have set up - here's my sample code
- (void)showUpgrade {
[self.upgradeVC viewWillAppear:NO];
[self.view addSubview:self.upgradeVC.view];
[self.upgradeVC viewDidAppear:NO];
}
- (void)hideUpgrade {
[self.upgradeVC viewWillDisappear:NO];
[self.upgradeVC.view removeFromSuperview];
[self.upgradeVC viewDidDisappear:NO];
}
- (UpgradeViewController *)upgradeVC {
if (_upgradeVC == nil) {
_upgradeVC = [[UpgradeViewController alloc] initWithNibName:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"UpgradeView_%#", self.deviceType] bundle:nil];
_upgradeVC.delegate = self;
}
return _upgradeVC;
}
You will need to store a reference to the parent view controller in the modal view controller so that you can access the -hide method. I did this through a delegate.
It would also be easy to add some animation to -show and -hide if you want it to animate up from the bottom of the screen - I was just too lazy to do this.
iOS 8 added the UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen presentation style. Set this as the presented view controller’s modalPresentationStyle. For more advanced needs, look into creating a custom presentation controller.
There is now a way to achieve this using iOS7 custom transitions :
MyController * controller = [MyController new];
[controller setTransitioningDelegate:self.transitionController];
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCustom;
[self controller animated:YES completion:nil];
To create your custom transition, you need 2 things :
A TransitionDelegate object (implementing
<UIViewControllerTransitionDelegate>)
An "AnimatedTransitioning" object
(implementing <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)
You can find more informations on custom transitions in this tutorial : http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/09/ios-7-custom-transitions/
Try this:
ViewController *vc = [[ViewController alloc] init];
[vc setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext];
[self presentViewController:vc animated:YES completion:nil];
Have you tried looping over the Modal View Controller's subviews and setting the background color to clear for every view? This is a DFS recursive function.
- (void)setBackgroundToClearForView:(UIView *)view {
if ([view subviews]) {
for (UIView *subView in [view subviews]) {
[self setBackgroundToClearForView:subView];
}
}
if ([view respondsToSelector:#selector(setBackgroundColor:)]) {
[view performSelector:#selector(setBackgroundColor:)
withObject:[UIColor clearColor]];
}
}
To use it call:
[self setBackgroundToClearForView:self.view];
in viewDidLoad.
This will do the trick.. Try this one.
// for clear color or you can easily adjust the alpha here
YourVC *vc=[[YourVC alloc]initWithNibName:#"YourVC" bundle:nil] ;
vc.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;
[self presentViewController:vc animated:NO completion:nil];
So that the view will be full screen unlike UIModalPresentationFormSheet..
I have a UINavigationController and I have seperate UIViews that I switch between using a UISegmentControl. On switching the views, I add the view as a subview to my navigation controller's view:
[self.view addSubview:segmentTab1.view];
and
[self.view addSubview:segmentTab2.view];
Then, in the subViews, each has a UITableView, but my issue is, that I am unable to push a new viewController into view in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method.
The method is called correctly and by setting breakpoints, I can see the method for pushing the view gets called as well, but nothing happens. This is my code for pushing it:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailsViewController animated:YES];
I also tried
[super.navigationController pushViewController:detailsViewController animated:YES];
What am I doing wrong - or is is just not possible to do it with a subview?
When you call -pushViewController, which view controller is self? If you are calling that from within one of your tab subviews, self likely doesn't have a reference to the navigation controller from the top level view that you added it to. You can verify this by getting the memory address of the navigation controller from within the top level view and comparing it to what you have in the subview. Obviously if it's nil or doesn't match, then that's your problem.
You only get a navigation controller "for free" when it's been added to the navigation stack itself with -pushViewController which your subviews haven't been added that way.
I had a similar issue when implementing a common header for all the views
After many tries , i have fixed it by this -
In all the viewController
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[self.view addSubview:[[(NavAppAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] headerview] view]];
[[(NavAppAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] headerview] viewWillAppear:YES];
}
I have referred following post to implement the header view
Common XIB in multiple View Controller in iPhone
[self.view addSubview:[[(NavAppAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] headerview] view]]; // line will load the header subview
[[(NavAppAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] headerview] viewWillAppear:YES]; // this is to call the viewWillAppear method of HeaderController where we can write code to check the user is logged or not and change the login button to logout button etc ..
Instead of
[self.view addSubview:segmentTab1.view];
and
[self.view addSubview:segmentTab2.view];
you may use
[self pushViewController: segmentTab1 animated: NO];
and
[self pushViewController: segmentTab2 animated: NO];
to add your viewControllers to the navigation hierarchy, and make [super.navigationController pushViewController:detailsViewController animated:YES]; work.
It is not entirely clear to me what your view hierarchy is, but in general if your navigation controllers view is not the first subview of a window or an element of one of Apple's collection views (either another navigation view controller's content view or a tab controller's content view) it won't work correctly.
One possibility, if you are not averse to singletons, is to make your product's UINavigationController object be a singleton, accessible from (for example) your application delegate.
You would invoke it thus:
[[((MyApplicationDelegate*)[UIApplication delegate]) navController]
pushViewController: viewControllerToPush animated: YES];
where within MyApplicationDelegate, navController returns the singleton object.
LogEntryDetailViewController *leController = [[LogEntryDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"LogEntryDetailView" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
[leController setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", [logEntriesArray objectAtIndex:row]]];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:leController animated:NO];
[leController release], leController = nil;