change a view programmatically with swift-slide-menu - ios

Question

I am using this library: swift-slide-menu
Is there any way to change a view programmatically? I am using the same viewcontroller to show two different datasets in a tableview. I have two buttons in the menu, one for each dataset. When clicking on button1 I go to the ListVC and everything works fine. When clicking on button2 I go to an empty ViewController that sets the url for the dataset and segues right away to ListVC.
When I do the segue, the menu button is not shown in ListVC. This is probably because I am not adding a childView to the BaseViewController when I segue. But is there any way to add a code inside my empty ViewController that adds ListVC as a childView, instead of doing a normal segue?
PS.
I am trying to prevent having the same code inside two different viewcontrollers and having 2 copies of the same vc in storyboard.
class ViewController: BaseViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
addChildView("AllDatasetID", titleOfChildren: "All data", iconName: "icon1") //ListVC
addChildView("FilteredDatasetID", titleOfChildren: "My data", iconName: "icon2") //EmptyVC that segues to ListVC
}
}
class EmptyVC: UIViewController {
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "toListVC", sender: self)
}
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "toListVC" {
if let destinationVC = segue.destination as? ListVC {
destinationVC.theUrl = Settings.myFilterUrl
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

The solution was to access inside the ListVC a variable from the menu that stored the title for the current view. The menu subclasses BaseViewController and several variables are accessable from the BaseViewController through the navigationController.
class ViewController: BaseViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
addChildView("ListVCScreenID", titleOfChildren: "My datapoints", iconName: "icon1")
addChildView("ListVCScreenID", titleOfChildren: "All datapoints", iconName: "icon2")
}
}
class ListVC: UIViewController {
var theUrl: String?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let vc = self.navigationController?.viewControllers
var counter = 0
for v in vc! {
if v as? ViewController != nil {
print("title is: \(v.title)")
if(v.title == "My datapoints") {
theUrl = "getMyData"
}
else {
theUrl = "getAllData"
}
}
}
}
}