How do I add the back button to a navigation bar? I know there are some related questions but none of them helped. I'm not using storyboard nor did I start with the Master Detail template. Is there a setting to do this? or do you add it by code? if so what code do I need? Any help is appreciated! THANKS!
The back button will appear by default if you use a navigationController correctly. The ViewControllers should be this
NavigationController > FirstViewController > SecondViewController
You will need to create navigationController and instantiate with firstVC as the root. From firstVC you can push secondVC and the back button will be there.
The following placed into appDelegate application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: will load firstVC initially. Place this after you initialize the window...
UIViewController *firstVC = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"firstVC" bundle:nil];
// any setupup of firstVC
UINavigationController *navCon = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:firstVC];
[self.window setRootViewController:navCon];
Then in your firstVC class if you want to push secondVC
in firstVC.m:
UIViewController *secondVC = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:secondVC animated:YES];
You don't need to explicitly add a back button. The button will be added automatically when you push controllers into a UINavigationController. That is, a call as:
[navigator pushViewController: controller animated: ...];
creates a back button.
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I want a viewcontroller to launch using a show transition, not modally from the bottom. Normally when I use the following code that's what happens. However, in this case, it is launching as a modal controller from the bottom up. Is there a switch I don't know about or could something be set in Storyboard that is causing this VC to launch modally from the bottom instead of showing?
UIStoryboard *storyBoard = self.storyboard;
IDImportEventsOnboard *importEvents =
[storyBoard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"importEventsOnboard"];
UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController: importEvents];
[self presentViewController:nav animated:YES completion: nil];
The VC is embedded in a navigation controller.
Should I be using showViewController directly to the targetVC without going through the Nav? Or a pushViewController What is a proper, robust way to show a VC with a show transition?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
In the above code you are 'presenting' a new NavigationController from a ViewController. In order to do a push/show transition, that needs to be done on an instance of a NavigationController. If your current ViewController is already in a NavigationController, you can push the new ViewController onto the current NavigationController stack. For Example:
UIStoryboard *storyBoard = self.storyboard;
IDImportEventsOnboard *importEventsVC =
[storyBoard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"importEventsOnboard"];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:importEventsVC animated:YES];
I am trying to push a view controller to a navigation controller, but nothing happens.
I have the following code in my appDelegate (which works fine it seems):
ViewController1* VC1 = [[ViewController1 alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:VC1];
self.window.rootViewController = navController;
And the following code in VC1:
ViewController2 *VC2 = [[ViewController2 alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:VC2 animated:YES];
VC2 gets initialised but isn't pushed to the navigation controller and therefor never presented. I have tried looking for answers for a while now but without success. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance!
Turns out the problem was that another navigation controller was active and had to be dismissed. The code posted was correct and all but I had totally missed another navigation controller.
I'm new to Objective-C and I want to add a UINavigationBar on my CatrgoryBIDViewController. I have proceed UIButton in InstructionBIDViewController.m file that should navigate to CatrgoryBIDViewController. Here is the function code:
- (IBAction)proceed:(id)sender {
viewControllercat =
[[CatrgoryBIDViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"CatrgoryBIDViewController"
bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *nav =
[[UINavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:self.viewControllercat];
//[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewControllercat animated:YES];
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
}
But it is not setting the UINavigationBar.
You should read the documentation here to understand the way a NavigationController is working. For your case:
If your current ViewController (where your proceed-method is implemented) has a NavigationController (is child of it), you can push another ViewController onto the stack of that NavigationController with
[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewControllercat animated:YES];
In this case you do not need to initialize another NavigationController, but in your CatrgoryBIDViewController in viewWillAppear you need to make the NavigationBar visible if it was not before already with
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];
If your current ViewController does not have a NavigationController, you can not push another ViewController on top of it and can not show the NavigationBar of it (although you can create your own NavigationBar and add it to the View of the ViewController, but without the usual Navigation-behaviour embedded).
If you open your ViewController programmatically (e. g. from the AppDelegate) you are correct to do so by your call:
viewControllercat = [[CatrgoryBIDViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"CatrgoryBIDViewController" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *nav=[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:self.viewControllercat];
My apologies - After having reread your question, I am going to tweak my answer some.
-(IBAction)proceed:(id)sender
{
viewControllercat = [[CatrgoryBIDViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController * nc =
[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:vc];
// We now need to display your detail view but cannot push it.
// So display modally
[self presentViewController:nc animated:YES completion:Nil];
}
The above should result in your DetailViewController - CategoryBIDViewController being displayed on top of your InstructionBIDViewController and it should have a UINavigationController in it.
I am using UITabbarController which has three child UIViewController named as FirstViewController, SecondViewController, ThirdViewController. I have a button on FirstViewController. When we tap the button, it need to push navigate to FourthViewController. Here the FourthViewController navigate inside UITabBarController itself. But i need it navigate out of UITabBarController not inside.
Button Target Action
ForthViewController *share = [[ForthViewController alloc] init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:share animated:YES];
Could anyone guide me for right way. Thanks in Advance..
Try this:
ForthViewController *share = [[ForthViewController alloc] init];
[self.parentViewController.navigationController pushViewController:share animated:YES];
As long as your tab bar controller is in a navigation controller, this will push your view controller on that navigation stack.
I'm stuck on a problem I really don't know how to solve:
I have a TabBarController defined in my AppDelegate.
UITabBarController *tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
In this TabBarController i have several other NavigationControllers which have UiVieController inside:
ProgramController *programContr = [[ProgrammController alloc] init];
UINavigationController navControllerPro = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:programContr];
ManualController *manualContr = [[ManualController alloc] init];
UINavigationController navControllerMan = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:manualContr];
and i add the NavigationController to the TabBarController:
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:navControllerPro,navControllerMan, nil];
I set the tabBarController to the rootViewController:
self.window.rootViewController = tabBarController;
[[self window] makeKeyAndVisible];
That works fine.
Now i want to add a "Login Screen" on top of that.
I did this with:
[tabBarController presentModalViewController:navControllerLogin animated:YES];
Now the TabBarController loads its content in the background even if the LoginViewController is in front. How to load the TabBarController only if a Button is pressed on the LoginViewController?
Please help me.
The tab bar controller is loaded everytime beacuse you set it as the rootViewController.
You should set a normal viewController as the root.. and if the login was succesfull the you should call the tabBarController to be loaded.
In other words, in the appDelegate there should be only the login window.. and in the loginViewController, if the login was ok, you should call and load your tabBarController with all its controller.. using storyboard makes it a lot easier.