Displaying a UITabBar when pushing to a UIViewController - ios

I am working on a new project of mine and am looking for what the best solution to keep the UITabBarController displaying even when using a segue to push to a UIViewController.
Currently I have an Initiation of our UITabBarController on app launch, which contains multiple viewcontroller relationships. Particularly the initial view controller option is a custom UIViewController which implements a UITableView. Once a cell is selected I call a show(push) segue to another UIViewController. This is where I lose my TabBar which is as expected. Now I have tried different approaches such as setting the hidden value of our tabbar to YES, but does not seem to help.
Code
When Cell Selected:
[self performSegueWithIdentifier: #"tableCellOptions" sender: self];
When preparing for segue:
if([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"tableCellOptions"]) {
additionUITableView *move = (additionUITableView *) segue.destinationViewController;
move.thisOption = [menuOptions objectAtIndex:cellPushed];
}
What would your approach be to this and why?

If you have Tab bar controller as the initial View Controller, the tab bar will show by default on each view controller.
If you are using storyboard or xib file, then select the tab bar item in view controller and check its properties, and make sure "hide tab bar on push" is unchecked.
Programmatically you can do this,
self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = NO;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewControllerToPush animated:YES];
Place it in viewDidLoad or viewDidAppear.
I hope this solves your problem.

Related

Why doesn't the tab bar show up on my view controllers?

I have the following in Interface Builder:
The top left is my main view controller where I have 2 buttons that have segue to two UIViewControllers. These two UIViewControllers are linked with the Tab Bar Controller. However, how could I make those 2 buttons to link to specifically to one/other views? Right now it's connected specifically, but it (or something else) causes the bar tab not show up.
Is it the problem that I don't have the Tab Bar Controller connected to the main view?
Yes, you're right that the problem occurs because the tab bar controller needs to be the destination of the segues. Fix it like this:
In IB, erase the segues from the two buttons and create two new ones, one from each button to the tab bar controller. Give each one an identifier, like buttonA from one button and buttonB from the other.
In the view controller, implement prepareForSegue for each segue understanding that the destination is a tab bar controller and that each segue requires a different tab selection...
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"buttonA"]) {
UITabBarController *tabBarController = (UITabBarController *)segue.destinationViewController;
tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
}
if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:#"buttonB"]) {
UITabBarController *tabBarController = (UITabBarController *)segue.destinationViewController;
tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1;
}
}
That's not quite how the tabBarController works.
I can see your initial view controller is the one on the top left, and it pushes either of the other two on the right on to the navigation stack if you push a button. But in your current setup, at no point does the tab controller itself get pushed on to the stack.
Instead, you would want to have your initial view controller push the tab bar controller on to the stack, through a button or otherwise, and the tab bar controller will display your other two view controllers as its setup to do.

popViewController not working with storyboards

I create a UINavigationController (as a initial screen) and connect them with my UITableViewController (as a root).
Next, I create another UINavigationController and connect with my UIViewController. Inside my UITableViewController I connect my first cell with UINavigationController (That was connected with my UIViewController) (Segue -> show).
When I run the project my table appears, when I select my first row, my UIViewController appears. Thats great!
When I was in my UIViewController the back bar button doesn't appears, in my case I create a left bar button, that will run a function to dismiss that view and go back to my UITableViewController, for that I use many codes:
-(void)back{
NSLog(#"Called");
[self.parentViewController.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
-(void)back{
NSLog(#"Called");
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
-(void)back{
NSLog(#"Called");
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
But all of they doesn't works and my view don't dismiss, how can I solve this problem?
The problem is that your navigation controller, that you call from your table view cell, has only a single view controller (yours) on its navigation stack. So it cannot pop anything from this stack, else the stack were empty.
What you have to do instead is to dismiss the navigation controller itself.
I think that the solution would be to remove the second navigation controller. Since the TableView is already embedded inside a Navigation Controller, the show segue to the UIViewController must be directly connected to it.

Why is adding a navigation controller making my array disappear?

Currently I have a UIViewController with a couple of buttons that when pressed move to a UITableViewController. Each button loads a specific array of data to the UITableViewController by identifying the segue of the specific button and displaying the corresponding data.
This works fine as is.
However I wish to add an embedded UINavigationController so I can navigate through the UITableViewController and and corresponding views while still being able to 'press back' to the initial UIViewController.
Firstly, where am I meant to put this. I tried over the tableViewController and 2 things happen -
a) If the segues still go to the UITableViewController, there is no navigation displayed.
b) If I move the segues to go to the UINavigationController, none of my arrays show in the tableViewController, but I do have navigation.
Where do I link my segues or where do I embed the UINavigationController so this works?
(I haven't put any code as I don't think this will involve it, but if it does just let me know and I will add).
Not sure if I'm missing something but, it's not working. I want to be able to still utilize the buttons I already have and not use the buttons on the navigation from the UIViewController to the UITableViewController.
For Hiding the Navigation on root
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:animated];
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
}
- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:animated];
[super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}
The ViewController which has 2 buttons can be made as rootViewController to the NavigationController. The NavigationController can be added to the window.
Window -> NavigationController -> UIViewController (as rootView)
Hope this helps.
Select the root view controller->editor->embed in->navigation controller

UINavigation Controller subclass and push Segues

I've been looking this up for a while now, it might have a simple answer:
According to the Apple docs, past ios6, we can subclass UINavigationController. How do we perform a segue from identifier when it prevents anything that isn't a UINavigationController. Mainly:
uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Could not find a
navigation controllerfor segue 'profileSegue'. Push segues can only
be used when the source controller is managed by an instance of
UINavigationController.
I'm using JaSidePanels and my center panel (navigation) needed to be subclasses for a delegate as there is a menu on the left panel that I want to switch the views when clicked.
#interface CenterViewController : UINavigationController <MenuDelegate>
Basically, since this object is a CenterViewController at runtime, is there a way to cast it to its superclass? I've tried [self superclass] but that didn't work (same error).
I need to call this code in the CenterViewController. Is it possible to move it to UINavigationController?
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
RootViewController *rootViewController = (RootViewController *)[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController];
MenuViewController *leftViewController = (MenuViewController *)rootViewController.leftPanel;
// Store a reference to the center view controller in the left view controller's delegate property
leftViewController.menuDelegate = self;
[super viewDidLoad];
}
- (void) MenuItemSelected: (NSString*) item
{
if ([item isEqualToString:#"Home"]) {
//These would throw the error since we're not technically a "UINavigationController"
//[self performSegueWithIdentifier: #"mapViewController" sender: nil];
} else if ([item isEqualToString:#"Profile"]) {
//[self performSegueWithIdentifier: #"profileSegue" sender: self];
}
}
EDIT:
More information with pictures.
I'm curious as to how navigation controllers should work with side panels. I've looked at many other plugins for sidepanels and here is an example. Even though it works, why does it have 2 nav controllers?
Here is our current setup:
So basically, am I thinking about this wrong in the sense that I want to push a new VC to the existing NavVC? Would it be better to push a new NavVC when a menu button is pressed? What would happen when we go into a subview from the Maps view. Would the menu be accessible via sliding?
If you look carefully at the message you will see that your problem isn't caused by subclassing UINavigationController it is because you are executing the segue against your (subclassed) UINavigationController. Push segues are executed against a UIViewController that is embedded in or managed by a UINavigationController, with the system then finding the managing UINavigationController via the view controller's navigationController property in order to execute the push.
The message you have received says
...Push segues can only
be used when the source controller is managed by an instance of
UINavigationController
In your case the source controller is an instance of UINavigationController, it isn't managed by a UINavigationController.
You haven't said exactly how your app navigation works, but I have a suspicion that a UINavigationController isn't the right tool to use anyway. If you are using the side menus to allow the user to select the central content in a random way (i.e. the user could select the first option then the fifth and then go back to the first) then you should probably just have a central view into which you present the selected view. Pushing views onto a UINavigationController will end up with a large 'stack' of views unless you pop the current view controller before pushing the new one, which is even more complicated and not the visual effect you are looking for.
You can still achieve the 'push' style transition but you will need to use a custom segue. If it were me I would probably push from the left if the user selected a menu item that was closer to the top than the current option and from the right if the new item was closer to the bottom than the current, but again I am making assumptions on how your app navigation works.
UPDATE
Yes, I think you are on the right track with the section of your updated question. Navigation controllers are for navigating a series of related views in a hierarchical manner - think of the Settings app - you select "general" or "wall paper" or whatever - each of these then has a series of views that you can navigate through; up and down a stack.
In your app it looks like home, profile and settings should each be navigation controllers. Your root view would then just be a view. Your menu would select which view controller to present in the root view - this is like a tab bar controller, except your menu takes the place of a tab bar.
You can allocate your home, profile & settings view controllers in your appDelegate and store them to properties of the appDelegate. Then you can use something like this:
- (void) MenuItemSelected: (NSString*) item
{
myappDelegate *app=(myappDelegate *)[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
[delegate.currentViewController removeFromParentViewController];
UIViewController *newController;
if ([item isEqualToString:#"Home"]) {
newController=app.homeViewController;
} else if ([item isEqualToString:#"Profile"]) {
newController=app.profileViewController;
}
if (app.currentViewController != newController)
{
[app.currentViewController removeFromParentViewController];
[app.rootViewController addChildViewController:newController];
app.currentViewController = newController;
}

How to hide the tabBar when push a view?

My application is a Tabbed Application, and it have several controllers under the tabBarController. One controller is a navigationController, and its root view is a table view. When I click a row of the table view, another view will be pushed in.
So the question is that when the view is pushed in, how can I hide the tabBar at the bottom?
Besides, I also want to add another tabBar into the pushed view, so I need to alloc a UITabBar or UITabBarController? Or there is another way? Thank you!
use this methood in the UIViewController class where you want to hide the tabBarController
-(BOOL)hidesBottomBarWhenPushed
{
return YES;
}
Update
As suggested by #Yuchen Zhong in his answer, This option is now available in the storyboard itself.
You can do this in storyboard now:
Select the UIViewController in your storyboard
Select the checkbox Hide Bottom Bar on Push
Set UIViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES when you want hide tab bar.
nextViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
Sometimes the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed method hides the bottom bar with a choppy animation.
Instead I hide the tabbar in viewDidLoad with
self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = YES;
and restore its presence in viewWillDisappear
self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = NO;
Set true hidesBottomBarWhenPushed in the controller that you want to hide.
For hide all controllers put into prepare for segue
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
segue.destination.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
}

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