Access text from UITextField in modal View Controller from Home View Controller - ios

Question

I have a ViewController1 with a UILabel that can present a ViewController2 with a Modal Segue. I have a UITextField in ViewController2 that I need to access from ViewController1 so I can set my UILabel with the collected text.
I've tried working with the prepareForSegue without success. What should I do?
EDIT:
I'm using a Delegate, but I'm doing something wrong. Here's the code I'm using in ViewController2.h:
#class ViewController2;
#protocol VCProtocol
-(void)setName:(NSString *)name;
#end
#interface ViewController2 : UIViewController
#property (nonatomic, weak) id<VCProtocol> delegate;
#property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *nameField;
- (IBAction)setButton:(id)sender
#end
ViewController2.m
-(IBAction)setButton:(id)sender
{
[self.delegate setName:nameField.text];
}
I conform to VCProtocol in my ViewController1.h. Then, in my ViewController1.m, I have this code:
- (void)setName:(NSString *)name
{
self.firstSignatureNameLabel.text = name;
}
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
if ([segue.identifier isEqual:#"Sign"])
{
ViewController2 *VC = [segue destinationViewController];
VC.delegate = self;
}
}

Answer 1

You can create a protocol and set VC1 as delegate of VC2, and using prepareForSegue to set VC1 as VC2's delegate should work. I know that you said it didn't work, but I can't see why. Have a try with this :
Give an identifier to your segue (on storyboard), and implement prepareForSegue as shown below :
VC2Delegate.h :
#protocol VC2Delegate
- (void)updateLabel:(NSString *)text;
#end
VC1.h :
#import "VC2Delegate.h"
#interface VC1 : UIViewController <VC2Delegate>
// All your stuff
#end
VC1.m :
- (void)updateLabel:(NSString *)text {
[_label setText:text];
}
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"YourSegueIdentifier"]) {
VC2 * vc = [segue destinationViewController];
[vc2 setDelegate:self];
}
}
VC2.h :
#import "VC2Delegate.h"
#interface VC2 : UIViewController
#property (weak, nonatomic) id<VC2Delegate>delegate;
#end
VC2.m
- (void)textWasUpdated { // or whatever method where you detect the text has been changed
if (_delegate)
[_delegate updateLabel:[_textView text]];
}
Tell me if it works. Else, is prepareForSegue even been called ?
EDIT : Updated my answer (wasn't exactly what you needed).
But as you say it doesn't work :
Is prepareForSegue called ?
If so, is the delegate method called ?
If the delegate method isn't called, check that delegate is not nil.
You might want to remove the segue, and present it modally by yourself, using presentViewController:animated:completion:, like that :
- (IBAction)buttonWasTapped {
static NSString * const idModalView = #"modalView";
static NSString * const storyBoardName = #"MainStoryBoard"
UIStoryboard * storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:storyBoardName bundle:nil];
VC2 * vc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:idModalView];
[vc setDelegate:self];
[self.navigationController presentViewController:vc2 animated:YES completion:nil];
}

Answer 2

When I ran into this problem, I chose the singleton approach and it works.