Swift: How to pass information to a pop up view? - ios

Question

I am trying to pass information to my custom PopUpViewController using the github extension (https://github.com/Orderella/PopupDialog). The Popup uses a viewcontroller I've named PopUpViewController(with a xib file), and the view controller that the PopUp is initiated from is called MainViewController.
The information passed to the PopUpViewController will be an array(named: popUpArray) of type String and used for displaying the contained information within a table (named: tableView).
MainViewController code:
func showCustomDialog(_ sender: UIButton) {
// Create a custom view controller
let PopUpVC = PopUpViewController(nibName: "PopUpViewController", bundle: nil)
// Create the dialog
let popup = PopupDialog(viewController: PopUpVC, buttonAlignment: .horizontal, transitionStyle: .bounceDown, gestureDismissal: true)
// Create second button
let buttonOne = DefaultButton(title: "Ok", dismissOnTap: true) {
}
// Add buttons to dialog
popup.addButton(buttonOne)
// Present dialog
present(popup, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
PopUpViewController Code:
import UIKit
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!
#IBOutlet weak var titleLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!

Answer 1

Just declare a new variable on PopUpViewController called data with type Array<String>.
After this, when you are creating your viewController, you can just pass it to the controller. After that it is just a simple tableView implementation in PopUpViewController to display the data.
Extend PopUpViewController with data parameter.
import UIKit
class PopUpViewController: UIViewController {
#IBOutlet weak var imageView: UIImageView!
#IBOutlet weak var titleLabel: UILabel!
#IBOutlet weak var tableView: UITableView!
// Data variable
public var data: [String] = []
}
Add the data upon calling showCustomDialog() function
// Create a custom view controller
let PopUpVC = PopUpViewController(nibName: "PopUpViewController", bundle: nil)
// Assign the data
PopUpVC.data = popUpArray

Answer 2

Create a convenience init in PopUpViewController like following
convenience init(nibName: String, arrayOfString: [String] ){
self.data = arrayOfString
self.init(nibName: nibName, bundle:nil)
}
Then on MainViewController call the convenience init you just created like this something like this
// Create a custom view controller
let PopUpVC = PopUpViewController("PopUpViewController", arrayOfString: ["String1", "String2"])