Swift SideMenu show view controller - ios

Question

So I'm having a table view controller and using https://github.com/jonkykong/SideMenu i'm trying to display a "slide in" sidebar which works, but it doesn't show me the view that I want in the sidebar is black
// Define the menus
let menuLeftNavigationController = UISideMenuNavigationController()
menuLeftNavigationController.leftSide = true
// UISideMenuNavigationController is a subclass of UINavigationController, so do any additional configuration of it here like setting its viewControllers.
SideMenuManager.menuLeftNavigationController = menuLeftNavigationController
// Enable gestures. The left and/or right menus must be set up above for these to work.
// Note that these continue to work on the Navigation Controller independent of the View Controller it displays!
SideMenuManager.menuAddPanGestureToPresent(toView: self.navigationController!.navigationBar)
SideMenuManager.menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent(toView: self.navigationController!.view)
When It clicks on the sidebar button I have this, which creates the animation but doesn't show the viewcontroller
func someAction(){
present(SideMenuManager.menuLeftNavigationController!, animated: true, completion: nil)
debugPrint("clicked")
}

Answer 1

On the repo readme, you will find your answer, take a look on the Customization
section https://github.com/jonkykong/SideMenu#sidemenumanager.
Simply set menuFadeStatusbar = false
SideMenuManager.default.menuFadeStatusBar = false
From the previous link, you will find the following information : "Draws the menuAnimationBackgroundColor behind the status bar. Default is true.
If menuFadeStatusBar is true, this color is used to fade it. Default is black."

Answer 2

The answer is in the comment of the snippet you posted:
// UISideMenuNavigationController is a subclass of UINavigationController,
// so do any additional configuration of it here like setting its viewControllers.

Answer 3

let btnMenu:UIButton = UIButton()
btnMenu.frame = CGRect(x: 20*valuePro, y: 20*valuePro, width: 40*valuePro, height: 40*valuePro)
btnMenu.backgroundColor = .red
btnMenu.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.displayMenu), for: .touchUpInside)
self.view.addSubview(btnMenu)
#objc func displayMenu(sender: UIButton!) {
print("Button Clicked")
present(SideMenuManager.default.menuLeftNavigationController!, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 4

https://github.com/jonkykong/SideMenu
The SideMenu README
Code Implementation
First:
import SideMenu
From a button, do something like this:
// Define the menu
let menu = UISideMenuNavigationController(rootViewController: YourViewController)
// UISideMenuNavigationController is a subclass of UINavigationController, so do any additional configuration
// of it here like setting its viewControllers. If you're using storyboards, you'll want to do something like:
// let menu = storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "RightMenu") as! UISideMenuNavigationController
present(menu, animated: true, completion: nil)
Answer
You need use UISideMenuNavigationController(rootViewController:), not UISideMenuNavigationController().
If you open the side menu from left, set leftSide to true.
let menu = UISideMenuNavigationController(rootViewController: YourViewController)
menu.leftSide = true
present(menu, animated: true, completion: nil)
Of course, you should give instance variable to UISideMenuNavigationController(rootViewController:).

Answer 5

I can recommend using JASidePanels
It's pretty simple and it just works. You're creating an JASidePanelController, setting this class to empty viewcontroller in your Storyboard and making this controller initial. (do not forget to import JASidePanels at the top of the class)
Then, in this class, you're implementing awakeFromNib() method like this:
leftPanel = ..//instantiating menu controller
let centerController = ...//instantiating center controller
centerPanel = UINavigationController(rootViewController: centerController)
That's it.
You can instantiate controller via their ID which can be set in Identity Inspector
let stb = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil) //instantiating a storyboard we will use for instantiating controllers
let someController = stb.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "here_your_identifier_goes") as! YourControllerClass