first part of my question is basic understanding.
I believe the other viewControllers in the storyboard are in a "Non instantiated" form when application is launched, and are launched when they are sequed, please confirm?
Second part how do I programmatically instantiate a sibling UIViewController within the storyboard and optionally create a seque to it. I've found some code from Objective-C (pasting below) but looking for a solution in SWIFT.
MyViewController *myVC = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"Main" bundle:nil] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"MyViewController"];
Your first statement is true to a certain extent. Any controller connected to one that does get instantiated by a relationship segue or an embed segue will also be instantiated (like all the children of a tab bar controller). In your code snippet, you don't need to use storyboardWithName: if you're calling that method from a controller that was created in the same storyboard; you can just use self.storyboard.
var myVC = self.storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MyViewController")
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I wanted to have separate storyboard files for every UIViewcontrollers in my iOS app.
So how can we assign different storyboards for each controllers? Also how do we do navigation between those?
This I am doing to avoid svn conflicts while so many people working on UI.
get a reference to the storyboard...
UIStoryboard *someStoryboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"NameOfYourStoryboard" bundle:nil];
then instantiate either the initial viewcontroller from that storyboard...
UIViewController *initialViewController = [someStoryboard instantiateInitialViewController];
or some other viewcontroller identified by it's storyboard identifier...
UIViewController *someOtherViewControllerFromTheStoryboard = [someStoryboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"SomeViewControllersStoryboardIdentifier"];
after that you can simply push (within a navigation controller) or present the new viewcontroller.
since iOS 9.0 you can even connect storyboards via storyboard references in the storyboard itself:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/recipes/xcode_help-IB_storyboard/Chapters/AddSBReference.html
Keeping different storyboards for different modules is good approach. You can achieve the navigation between storyboards as follows:-
Suppose you are in A view controller and want to push another view controller named FabIdeaDetailViewController which is present in storyboard named FabIdeas:-
FabIdeaDetailViewController *horizontalListController = (FabIdeaDetailViewController*)[UIViewController instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"FabIdeaDetailViewController" fromStoryboard:#"FabIdeas"];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:horizontalListController animated:YES];
Now for pushing another view controller named WishlistViewController which is present in storyboard named Wishlist:-
UIViewController *WishlistViewController = [UIViewController instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"WishlistViewController" fromStoryboard:#"Wishlist"];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:WishlistViewController animated:YES];
Here is what code I get online, and it does work on previous project that I develop.But in this project, self.navigationController is null when I NSLog it, and guys online talked about add some code in delegate file, but I found nothing in previous project also I am not very clear what code should I add there. Anyone can give me a hand?
UIViewController *next = [[self storyboard] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"ViewCollection"];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:next animated:YES];
If UINavigationController is nil, it means that the view controller that you use (which you instantiate from a Storyboard) is not actually embedded within a UINavigationController.
In order to embed it into a UINavigationController, you need to drag and drop a UINavigationController into your Storyboard and then ctrl-drag from the UINavigationController to your custom view controller and set it as the rootViewcontroller of the UINavigationController.
as nburk said: you need a NavigationController with a RootViewController which is your view. and dont forget to set the NavigationController as Initial View Controller. This all is done in the IB.
I have the mainstoryboard + viewcontroller
When I press a button on the mainstoryboard it will show another storyboard.
When I press a button in the new storyboard I want to call a function of the mainstoryboard.
How can I make this happen?
You can grab the storyboard and instantiate a viewController from it like this:
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"yourStoryboardName" bundle:nil];
YourViewController *viewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"yourViewControllerIdentifier"];
But if you require a function that contains the context of the previous view controller, you should keep a reference to it and just call your methods directly from there. You can also use the presentingViewController property to access the view controller that started the modal presentation. Or if using a navigationController you can use the viewControllers property to access previous viewControllers in the stack.
The comment of Abizem gave me the right tag to search for.
'Protocols'.
I found a very good explanation here on stackoverflow.
Look there:
How to access a previous story board.
Just have a look at the answer of Matt Price. Very nice explanation!
I am very new to using Storyboards, and am trying to learn. In my app, I want to change from one view to another, modally, without pushing any buttons, i.e. timer runs down then performs the action. I added a notification observer in the main view, and in my storyboard, I added a new view controller, and associated the Custom Class with it called URLWebViewController. In code I wrote out:
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"MainStoryboard_iPhone" bundle:nil];
URLWebViewController *myVC = (URLWebViewController *)[storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"URLWeb"];
[self presentViewController:myVC animated:YES completion:nil];
But I get the warning message
Incompatible pointer types sending 'URLWebViewController' to parameter of type 'UIViewController'
Like I said, I am very new to Storyboards, and here is what it looks like currently:
Your screenshot indicates you have not created a segue between the two view controllers. Do so by click-and-drag from one view controller to the other. In the attribute inspector, give your newly-created segue an identifier, i.e., a string that names it.
To trigger this segue programmatically, in your source view controller (the one you are segueing from) just call performSegueWithIdentifier and pass in the identifier you chose.
It's really simple! I didn't understand the order but let's say you want to pass from ViewController to WebViewController (the name from your storyboard)..Just ctrl-drag from ViewController to WebViewController to create a segue and select modal as the type.
Now click on the line that connects your view controllers and in the right panel give it an identifier. Now in your code just use the method performSegueWithIdentifier using the identifier you wrote.
I have this main menu view controller -thing, that, rather than being defined twice in my storyboard, with segues in between, calls pushViewController on a new instance of its own class. So it goes:
menu_a --> menu_a --> option_x
rather than
menu_a --> menu_b --> option_x
After pushing the view controller once, the navigationController loses track of the associated segues and I get the "Receiver has no segue with identifier" message. That is,
menu_a --> option_y
never produces this sort of error.
I've Googled and searched Stack Overflow for the past three hours with no luck.
I hope somebody out there has tried the same thing, and will want to elaborate on a workaround.
I can't guarantee this will work, but here goes:
Presumably because segues are a Storyboard feature, calling performSegue is referring back to your ViewController that was instantiated by the storyboard. As described in this question, it's possible to request your storyboard to instantiate a new ViewController from itself, rather than creating it manually (which is what I presume you're doing).
UIStoryboard* storyboard = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"MainStoryboard" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
UIViewController* dest = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"CustomController"];
Attempting a segue from a ViewController created this way may have more luck, as it should have the same segue information associated, while a manually created one wouldn't). It's just a theory - let me know if it works :)