For an app I am creating I started out with a standard Tabbed Application Template. From there I implemented a tutorial for a UIPageViewController and all work correctly together. However now I want to start using Segue's as this makes the app better understandable in my opinion. Problem here is I really don't know how to make this work.
The following code is now used to create the viewControllers from the UIStoryBoard
- (IBAction)goToTables:(id)sender {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Create page view controller
self.weightPageViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"WeightPageViewController"];
self.weightPageViewController.dataSource = self;
WeightPageContentViewController *startingViewController = [self viewControllerAtIndex:0];
NSArray *viewControllers = #[startingViewController];
[self.weightPageViewController setViewControllers:viewControllers direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward animated:NO completion:nil];
[self addChildViewController:_weightPageViewController];
[self.view addSubview:_weightPageViewController.view];
[self.weightPageViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
}
What I am looking for is the code which can be used to do the same but then in a Segue, as I cannot get to a point where it works.
In the storyboard you create a segue between 2 viewControllers, give the segue a name and then call the following:
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#" <Segue-Name> " sender:self];
there is also a callback:
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
which will give you access to the destination viewController to pass data, call functions etc
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I have successfully created a "tutorial" pages that will show up at the first time user open the app. And i am facing the problem on how to move to another "branch" of view controllers in my storyboard.
So basically I have two main flows in my storyboard:
1. Page View Controllers
2. Main app view controllers
As you can see from screenshot below
So, the question is, how to move to my main app flow after the user clicked on the skip button from my UIPageViewController?
In my tutorial page view controller, i have this code to set the page view controllers
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.arrPageTitles = #[#"A",#"B",#"C"];
self.arrPageImages =#[#"1.jpg",#"2.jpg",#"3.jpg"];
// Create page view controller
self.PageViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"pageViewController"];
self.PageViewController.dataSource = self;
TutorialPageContentViewController *startingViewController = [self viewControllerAtIndex:0];
NSArray *viewControllers = #[startingViewController];
[self.PageViewController setViewControllers:viewControllers direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward animated:NO completion:nil];
// Change the size of page view controller
self.PageViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height - 30);
[self addChildViewController:self.PageViewController];
[self.view addSubview:self.PageViewController.view];
[self.PageViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
}
Or is there any better approach to achieve this? Is my design wrong?
I have searching for any clue but can't find any. Thanks!
First of all I'd recommend you to use different storyboards for Tutorial flow and for main app screens. It's very hard to store everything in single storyboard: you will get some mess when project will have at least 20-30 view controllers.
And you can replace root view controller at any time using this code:
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "<storyboard_name>", bundle: nil)
let viewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "<vc_name>")
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController = viewController
I have a screen tutorial for my app. I have a UIPageViewController setup to manage 3 View Controllers. Once you get to the last view on the tutorial you press a "done" button and the tutorial is supposed to go away.
I can't seem to find a way to pop/dismiss the tutorial. I have tried the following:
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
[self.presentingViewController dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
Any ideas would be appreciated.
The View Controllers being managed are subviews of UIViewController if that's of any help.
EDIT
This is how I set up the views:
In my UIPageViewController I have the following:
-(void)viewDidLoad{
[self.pageController setViewControllers:#[tutorialPages[0]]
direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward
animated:NO
completion:nil];
[self addChildViewController:self.pageController];
[[self view] addSubview:[self.pageController view]];
[self.pageController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
}
- (void)setupContentViews{
ScreenTutorial_1ViewController *screenTutorial1 = [[ScreenTutorial_1ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ScreenTutorial_1ViewController" bundle:nil];
ScreenTutorial_2ViewController *screenTutorial2 = [[ScreenTutorial_2ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ScreenTutorial_2ViewController" bundle:nil];
ScreenTutorial_3ViewController *screenTutorial3 = [[ScreenTutorial_3ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ScreenTutorial_3ViewController" bundle:nil];
tutorialPages = #[screenTutorial1, screenTutorial2, screenTutorial3];
NSLog(#"tutorPages = %#", tutorialPages);
}
First, I strongly recommend you using:
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:#YES forKey:#"hasSeenTutorial"];
Secondly, how are you presenting your PageViewController? In order to dismiss it like you have, you need to use (from a UIViewController):
[self presentViewController:tutorial animated:YES completion:nil];
Where tutorial is your Tutorial View controller. This will slide it up across the screen (or you can not animate it), and then you can dismiss it like you have.
Wild shot in the dark here, but I think you could reach your UIPageVieWController by calling self.parentViewController in your child controllers.
You could then either dismiss it (if it's modally presented) or pop it.
I just realized that I had 2 views in a xib file and the IBAction was connected to the wrong one. I've been copying and pasting buttons, labels...etc. On one of those pastes, I must have copied the pasted the entire view. I deleted it and used the following command which did dismiss the View:
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
I have an ipad app.
I am trying to open view 2 (kind of push view) full with entire screen. how normally do with push view or UIModalPresentationFullScreen. but my base view which is view 1 is also modal view.
so i was trying to open view 2 when view 1 get dismiss…
- (void) handleNewButton :(int)id
{
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES
completion:^{
NewViewController *View2 = [NewViewController alloc] init];
View2.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
View2.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve;
[self presentViewController: View2 animated:YES completion:nil];
}];
}
but my view 2 is not opening. i know i can not do push view. But is there any way to achieve it?.
When you do this dismissViewControllerAnimated the UIViewController (self in this case) is gone, in the sense that he is not on the screen anymore, if it has been released or not, that's another story. The reason for you to not be able to show the View2 (very poor name, it should at least ViewController2) is because you are trying to show it from a UIViewController that is not on the screen anymore.
So, what can you do?
The current self in the context of the handleNewButton method, in theory was presented by another UIViewController, that's from where you want to present your View2.
Probably the quickest way of implementing of what I said, would probably be with a notification described here. Although I would do it with a block, so when the self would be created, I would pass a dismissiCompletionBlock that would be called when that UIViewController was dismissed.
try to allocate NewViewController with nib name if you are not using storyboard,
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES
completion:^{
NewViewController *n=[[NewViewController alloc]initWithNibName:#"NewViewController" bundle:nil];
View2.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
View2.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve;
[self presentViewController: View2 animated:YES completion:nil];
}];
or if you are using storyboard get NewViewController using identifier.
I have two view controllers, MainViewController and SecondViewController.
In my main view controller, I have data I pass to the second view controller like so:
-(IBAction)shareToSocial:(id)sender {
SecondViewController *view2 = (SecondViewsController *)[storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"PushToNext"];
view2.secTitle = self.MainTitle;
[self.navigationController setModalPresentationStyle: UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
[self setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
}
Where both secTitle and MainTitle are NSStrings for each controller. From what I've read, by setting view2.secTitle to self.MainTitle, when SecondViewController pops in I my view2.secTitle will have the same value as MainTitle. So if MainTitle is "Hello World" then I open secondViewController, secTitle would also be "Hello World". However, I've been getting null with secTitle even though I am setting the data for it.
If I use pushViewController instead of modal, the values are passed between the two controllers fine. So I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong here exactly.
I've also tried using [view2 setSecTitle:MainTitle] to no avail.
There's not much code on my SecondViewController but here's how it looks:
-(IBAction)showMessage:id(sender){
NSLog(#"test: %#", self.secTitle);
}
-(IBAction)closeMessage:id(sender){
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}
Also, I've noticed that when I used dismissViewControllerAnimated on SecondViewController to close it and go back to the MainViewController, a black empty screen shows for a few seconds before showing the Main View and touch events on MainViewController is not detected anymore.
Please help.
Could you use performSegueWithIdentifier and prepareForSegue? If you've got your views in your storyboard and set up a segue between them, given it an identifier and set the style to modal you should be able to do this:
-(IBAction)shareToSocial:(id)sender {
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"modelToNextSegue" sender:self];
}
Then in prepareForSegue method you pass your values:
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
SecondViewController *view2 = [segue destinationViewController];
view2.secTitle = self.MainTitle;
}
Try this:
SecondViewController *view2 = (SecondViewsController *)[storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"PushToNext"];
view2.secTitle = self.MainTitle;
UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:view2];
[nav setModalPresentationStyle: UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
[self setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
I use the following code to switch from main view (ViewController.h)to another view (TouchViewController) and then similarly switch from this view to the next view (QuestionsViewController).
How do I go back to the main view from here? i.e what is the value for initWithNibName for MainStoryboard.storyboard?
- (IBAction)startGame:(UIButton *)sender {
TouchViewController *second = [[TouchViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"TouchViewController" bundle:nil];
[self presentViewController:second animated:YES completion:nil];
}
and
- (IBAction)selectTopic:(UIButton *)sender {
NSString *category = [[sender titleLabel] text];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:category forKey:#"MyKey"];
QuestionsViewController *second = [[QuestionsViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"QuestionsViewController" bundle:nil];
[self presentViewController:second animated:YES completion:nil];
}
Now to go back to the main view i have a problem i.e
- (IBAction)backtoMainMenu:(id)sender {
ViewController *second = [[ViewController alloc]initWithNibName:#"MainStoryboard.storyboard" bundle:nil];
[self presentViewController:second animated:YES completion:nil];
}
At this point the app just crashes! I suppose it's because initWithNibName:#"MainStoryboard.storyboard" can't be used but the ViewController does not have any other xib file - so what do I do?
First of all storyboard can't be used as a xib file they are not the same thing. Second you have one view controller that presents a view controller that also present a view controller so what you can do is something like this from the third view controller:
[self.presentingViewController.presentingViewController
void)dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
This is the fastest way you can do it, but it's not really reusable, if you have a more complex view controller hierarchy than it will be really ugly to do it like this, other solutions can be delgates or notifications.
Also just a piece of advice, when you want to go back to a previous screen in general you don't what to create a new view controller (as you try in backToMainMenu method, you simply want to remove all the view controllers (screens) until you reach the desired screen.