I have a controller named as "firstViewcontroller" where i have a UITableView named as "discoveredInstanceTableView". I want to load that UITableView in to another UIViewController named as "secondViewcontroller"
I have used the below code but it is not working, It says property "discoveredInstanceTableView" not found ...Anybody please help me:
In the firstViewcontroller:
IBOutlet UITableView *discoveredInstanceTableView;
In the Secondviewcontroller:
firstViewcontroller *vc1 = [[firstViewcontroller alloc]initWithNibName:#"firstViewcontroller" bundle:nil];
[self addChildViewController:vc1];
[self.myTableview addSubview:vc1.discoveredInstanceTableView];
What you asked is valid only if you curious to know why the above thing is not working answer would be
You are doing something that is not allowed, this can not be done as per the documentation.
However, If we forget about the right wrong approach, you probably adding a table view as a subview over a table view itself and I am sure you passing a table view to a table view which might not be allocated.
First think about the UITableView how it works? it simply a ScrollableView which display content over its cells.
Eventually would recommend you read about TableView
EDIT: From the Above Comments
IMPORTANT: You should not embed UIWebView or UITableView objects in
UIScrollView objects. If you do so, unexpected behavior can result
because touch events for the two objects can be mixed up and wrongly
handled.ยป As UITableView is a UIScrollView, this applies here as well.
Possible Alternatives of displaying TableView inside the SecondViewController
Use #Rajath Kornaya's Answer And In my opinion that is not right approach since whenever you required callback action like on cell tap, you want to display an alert(or something else), you can't get the delegate callback inside the SecondViewController
But there are so many other right approaches available, that you should follow up.
Create a TableView separately either programmatically or through the XIB/Storyboard
Add delegate and data source (methods which responds when something interesting happened e.g Cell going to populate called cellForRowAtIndexPath) to current SecondViewController
Define all required data source methods and write proper code.
If you required to do something on cell tap, add specific delegate method too.
But if you want to reuse the FirstViewController Class TableView simply create a CustomView and add TableView inside there and simply add that view to each view controller class.
I hope it may helps you!!!
declare in viewcontroller2
#property (nonatomic, strong) UITableView *table;
create table in viewcontroller1
tableView=[[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 250, 300) style:UITableViewStylePlain];
[self.view addSubview:tableView];
tableView.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];
while calling viewcontroller2 pass table to viewcontroller2
ViewController2 *v2=[[ViewController2 alloc]init];
v2.table=tableView;
UINavigationController *navigation=[[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:v2];
[self presentViewController:navigation animated:YES completion:nil];
in viewcontroller2 access the table using the global variable
[self.view addSubview:self.table];
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I have a UIViewController with a container view which holds a UITableView.
Within the UITableView I have a NSFetchController with NSPredicate that uses variables from the intial UIViewcontroller (I hope your still with me). For one instance that the user changes the container view does not update.
How can I force a reload/update on the container view when this occurs? I looked around but did not see much on this topic.
To be specific I have a UIDatePicker that changes the date on a button. It is this that needs to be updated.
From the initial UIView controller, you can get a reference to the table view controller with self.childViewControllers[0]. So, you need to do it like this:
UITableViewController *tbc = (UITableViewController *)self.childViewControllers[0];
[tbc.tableView reloadData];
You wrote that you have UIViewController there and not UITableViewController - if you have UIViewController you have to have a property there. I assume that here everything is ok.. But check.
What I am doing while working with containers views is adding element by:
_someVC = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"SomeVC"];
[self addChildViewController:_someVC];
_someVC.view.frame = _containerView.bounds;
[_containerView addSubview:_someVC.view];
[_someVC didMoveToParentViewController:self];
And not with IB. Hope that helps.
I am using Storyboard in my app and I want to pass data from one view to another view.
Instead of using segues I am using instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier. In this case I am instantiate from my first TableViewController to a NavigationController which has a second TableViewController attached because I need the navigation in the second TableViewController. Now I want to pass data from my first TableviewController, depending which row was clicked, to my second TableviewController. In this case newTopViewController would be my NavigationController but my problem is now how to pass data from firstTableViewController to the secondTableviewController.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSString *identifier = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#Top", [menuArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
UIViewController *newTopViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:identifier];
}
If you instantiate a navigationController, you can use the viewControllers property to get the inner viewController of the navigation controller.
Something like this:
UINavigationController *navigationController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:identifier];
MBFancyViewController *viewController = navigationController.viewControllers[0];
// setup "inner" view controller
viewController.foo = bar;
[self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];
newTopViewController.anyVariableToShow= anyVariableToSend;
I do this pretty often on a few of my apps...
//Create new VC
CookViewController *detailViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"CookVC"];
//Set recipe
[detailViewController setRecipe:recipe];
//Pop over VC (can be pushed with a nav controller)
[self presentPopupViewController:detailViewController animationType:MJPopupViewAnimationFade];
If you aren't using a navigation controller or segues, then I think you need to reconsider your app design.
Actually it's not just a data pass problem as this is a program control and data transfer question together.
Even you would have to rethink about your app's concept, as you'd like to use storyboard without the meaning of storyboard, it's up to you and I hope you have good reason to do what you do.
So when you decided not to use segue you lost the new and comfortable way of instantiating a new controller and transferring data with it and you have to do the transfer of control and the data in two distinct steps. When you instantiate another scene in storyboard (like you do with instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:) you just instantiated a new controller and transferred the control but not the data. Just think about it as you instantiated a new controller from a xib in an old way (so you have to use initWithCoder: or awakeFromNib in the second view controller as the storyboard will not call initWithName:bundle:), but did not do anything more.
So you will have a new controller (it named in the identity part of the second storyboard) which is hanging in the universe without any relationship or connection with anything else (as the storyboard picture illustrates it nicely) and you could do with it what you'd like.
So you'd like to do something and you need data from the previous storyboard (ViewController). What you need is making available those data to the second storyboard(ViewController), and as you know there are lot of solution for this which were available long time before even storyboard is existed.
So regarding your code, the "data transfer" is depending on your design, whether the two controllers are subclasses of each other or whatsoever...
If you don't like to deal with subclassing and like to decoupling them as much as possible, the best way just make a property of your data in the first controller and refer to them from the second (after importing the first's .h file) and just refer to it in it's viewDidLoad or in initWithCoder: or anywhere where you need them, as
secondViewControllerdata = firstViewControllerdata.thatDataProperty
Of course you can do the same in reverse and make a property of the second controller and refer to it in your first view controller.
You can define some parameter in UIViewController to receive data:
#property (assign) int param1;
#property (retain) NSMutableArray *param2;
and use below to pass the data:
[newTopViewController setParam1:XX];
[newTopViewController setParam2:XX];
I have a UITableViewController within a UIViewController. While this table viewcontroller was the only one involved, it was pushing views just fine when the user would tap a row. However, ever since I moved it to be one of two contained within the UIViewController, the taps of rows suddenly do nothing.
I've tried searching around and I'm not the first to run into this problem, but none of the answers fit my circumstances or the questions have no working answers. That link was the closest I found, but I'm not using storyboards -- I'm using separate XIBs.
So how do I push a new view from a viewcontroller within a viewcontroller?
To recap:
Here is what I had, and it worked fine in taking users to a new screen!
// Normal table behavior, as illustrated by [another question][2].
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView
didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
SomeView *detailViewController = [[SomeView alloc] initWithNibName:#"SomeView" bundle:nil];
// Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
[self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
}
Now I have the viewcontroller as a property in a view -- and the above code, which is in the file for the tableviewcontroller and not at the "main" view, doesn't cause a new screen to appear anymore!
Thanks for the comments! Here's some code to clarify my scenario.
The controllers within a controller. This is a file from a test project I've been using to test the concept out. In this case, I have a tableview controller within a tableview controller.
#interface SimpleTableViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource>
// This is the controller within the controller
#property IBOutlet SecondTableViewController *secondTableController;
#property IBOutlet UITableView *secondTable;
My SecondTableViewController has this fun bit.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
// Navigation logic may go here. Create and push another view controller.
UIViewController *detailViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SimpleNonTableViewController" bundle:nil];
// ...
// Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
[manualViewControllerParent.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];
}
The view that the user interacts with is hooked up to SimpleTableViewController. In this way, SecondTableViewController is "within" SimpleTableViewController. Feel free to comment if you'd like more details!
I've put my test/concept project on github. https://github.com/hyliandanny/TableViewCeption
You need to use a custom container controller to do what you want. It would be easiest if you used a storyboard, but you can do it in code with xibs as well. The outer controller should be a UIViewController, not a table view controller. You can do something like this (in the outer controller):
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
UIViewController *detailViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SimpleNonTableViewController" bundle:nil];
[self addChildViewController:detailViewController];
detailViewController.view.frame = set the frame to what you want;
[self.view addSubview:detailViewController.view];
[detailViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
}
You should read up on Apple's documentation for custom container controllers.
What you need to make sure:
Your UITableView delegate is hooked up to your controller. Otherwise it wouldn't call didSelectRow. You can do this in xib or in viewDidLoad method.
Your self.navigationController is not nil
Your detailViewController is not nil
I also think that what you mean is you have UITableView inside your UIViewController. UITableView is only the view, whereas UITableViewController is a controller. You can't have a controller inside another controller.
Hy
i have two classes uiviewcontroller and uiview. I have one view controller. Inside i have uiview. Inside uiview i have textfield and when i write a text and click done i need to refresh uiviewcontroller.
I tried with this in uiview class:
-(IBAction)textFieldReturn:(id)sender
{
ViewController *vc = [[ViewController alloc] init];
[vc viewDidLoad];
}
i need refresh the same as you click the button and open viewcontroller.
I am guessing you mean that you want to "refresh" the view, not the view controller. To do that simply call [self setNeedsDisplay] from the view, or [self.view setNeedsDisplay] from the view controller. Also make sure that the textfield is a subview of the uiview. Either do that in the nib file or in code by calling [self addSubview: (textfield here)].
Also, if you want to access the view controller from the view you will need to create an IBOutlet, simply allocating a new ViewController object within the view does not mean that the created view controller controls the view. Hopefully that makes sense. I'd recommend going through some ios starter tutorials as well. Just google that there are a lot.
I have a UITableView that loads from a NIB file. The controller for the screen is a subclass of UIViewController that conforms to the UITableView delegate protocols. This is the 2nd screen in a stack of views managed by a UINavigationController.
In my viewWillAppear for the offending view I run two NSFetchRequests and update 2 of the 3 sections in my table with results from those NSFetchRequests. At the bottom of viewWillAppear I call
[self.myTable reloadData];
myTable is an IBOutlet to the UITableView for the screen.
For whatever reason the table doesn't reload the data and none of the delegate methods for the table get called when I come back up to it from views deeper in the Navigation Controller hierarchy.
How do I get the table to reload?
Thanks.
Instead of self.tableView, use:
[myTable reloadData];
So if you defined your IBOulet as myTable, then you need to use that name instead.
self.myTable would work if you initialized myTable like in your header:
self.myTable = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
Have you also linked the UITableView to data source and delegate outlets in the nib file? You have to link these two in addition to the IBOutlet.