How to push a new view controller from a view - ios

Question

I created a view in .xib. On it, I placed a button on which I want to open another ViewController. I assigned a storyboardID to this ViewController. But I can't push the new controller, how can this problem be solved?
My code:
class MyView: UIView {
...
#IBAction func buttonPressed(_ sender: Any) {
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "ViewController", bundle: Bundle.init())
let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC") as! ViewController
let navigationController = UINavigationController.init()
navigationController.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}
...
}
class ViewController: UIViewController {
...
}
Xcode gives this error:
'Could not find a storyboard named' ViewController'
but I checked there are no errors. I reloaded Xcode - no result.

Answer 1

Seems you have more than one issue.
You are trying to push a UIViewController into a non presented UINavigationController
You are creating an instance from a UIStoryboard with wrong identifier
First you need to choose the correct UIStoryboard which I am assuming it's main, then you have to present the UINavigationController from the holder UIViewController or trying to push from that UIViewController if it's has a UINavigationController,
Part 1: Fixing the instances,
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "main", bundle: Bundle())
let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC") as! ViewController
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc)
Now you have a navigationController that holds a your VC
Part 2: You want to present this navigation from your holding VC you can either add a listener to the UIButton from that VC and present/push from there
so lets wrap this up create a function in your VC that holds the UIView
#objc func pushToMyVc() {
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "main", bundle: Bundle())
let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC") as! ViewController
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc)
}
And in your UIView add this variable var selector: (() -> Void)?
Now in #IBAction func buttonPressed call this function selector?()
Now all we need is to pass what function I want to use when this button gets clicked in our case the function pushToMyVC that we put in our main UIViewController so in our didLoad or wherever you're calling this custom view
set the selector like this
myView.selector = pushtoMyVC
Side Note: you can't present/push UIViewController from non
UIViewController classes

Answer 2

Try changing how you fetch the storyboard from
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "ViewController", bundle: Bundle.init())
to
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "ViewController", bundle: nil)
note that the storyboard ID needs to be exactly ViewController.
If this still shows the same error, I'd say you have an issue with the storyboard target membership, so check that in the file inspector on the right side of the Xcode editor.

Answer 3

You should check your Storyboard file name again, because when you want to initiate a UIViewController from a Storyboard file, the name parameter in UIStoryboard initiation has to be exactly the same as the Storyboard file name.
#IBAction func buttonPressed(_ sender: Any) {
// Let's say that you have a Storyboard file named ViewController.storyboard and a UIViewController class named ViewController.swift
let destinationVC = UIStoryboard(name: "ViewController", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC") as! ViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(destinationVC, animated: true)
}
Hope this helps your issue

Answer 4

you should take a delegate back to viewController that contains current view, and call navigationController.push from there