Can't send data between views using a protocol & delegate with presentModalViewController - ios

Question

I'm making elevator thing. I'm having trouble sending data with different views using presentModalViewController. I got red message "favoriteColorString" property not found. I copied exactly the same but different form names and buttons. The "favoriteColorString" appears an error and unable to send elevator2 data.
I tried two different thing.
Elevator2View.favoriteColorString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Your favorite color is %#", favoriteColorTextField.text];
And
favoriteColorString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Your favorite color is %#", favoriteColorTextField.text];
Here's my code:
ElevatorView.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "Elevator2View.h"
#interface ElevatorView : UIViewController<PassSecondColor>
{
Elevator2View *Elevator2View;
IBOutlet UITextField *favoriteColorTextField;
IBOutlet UILabel *favoriteColorLabel;
IBOutlet UILabel *secondFavoriteColorLabel;
NSString *secondFavoriteColorString;
}
#property (nonatomic, retain) Elevator2View *Elevator2View;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField *favoriteColorTextField;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *favoriteColorLabel;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *secondFavoriteColorLabel;
#property (copy) NSString *secondFavoriteColorString;
#end
ElevatorView.m
#import "ElevatorView.h"
#import "Elevator2View.h"
#implementation ElevatorView
#synthesize Elevator2View, favoriteColorTextField, favoriteColorLabel, secondFavoriteColorLabel;
#synthesize secondFavoriteColorString;
-(IBAction)level1:(id)sender;{
favoriteColorTextField.text = #"1";
Elevator2View.favoriteColorString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Your favorite color is %#", favoriteColorTextField.text];
[self presentModalViewController:[[[Elevator2View alloc] init]
autorelease] animated:NO];
}
Elevator2View.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#protocol PassSecondColor <NSObject>
#required
- (void) setSecondFavoriteColor:(NSString *)secondFavoriteColor;
#end
#interface Elevator2View : UIViewController{
IBOutlet UITextField *secondFavoriteColorTextField;
IBOutlet UILabel *favoriteColorLabel;
IBOutlet UILabel *secondFavoriteColorLabel;
NSString *favoriteColorString;
id <PassSecondColor> delegate;
}
#property (copy) NSString *favoriteColorString;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField *secondFavoriteColorTextField;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *favoriteColorLabel;
#property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UILabel *secondFavoriteColorLabel;
#property (retain) id delegate;
#end
Elevator2View.m
#import "Elevator2View.h"
#interface Elevator2View ()
#end
#implementation Elevator2View
#synthesize secondFavoriteColorTextField, favoriteColorLabel, secondFavoriteColorLabel;
#synthesize favoriteColorString;
#synthesize delegate;
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
// Custom initialization
}
return self;
}
- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
favoriteColorLabel.text = favoriteColorString;
}
- (void) viewWillDisappear:(BOOL) animated
{
// [[self delegate] setSecondFavoriteColor:secondFavoriteColorTextField.text];
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
favoriteColorLabel.text = favoriteColorString;
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
#end
See http://www.theappcodeblog.com/?p=90

Answer 1

The reason for your "property not found" is that you named your ivar same as class.
Dot notation is just a syntactic sugar: object.property = value is equivalent to [object setProperty:value]. In Objective C classes are also objects, and when you call Elevator2View.favoriteColorString = whatever, Xcode apparently thinks that you are attempting to call class method setFavoriteColorString of class Elevator2View.
Getting rid of this error is easy: just rename your ivar Elevator2View *Elevator2View to something else. In fact, Xcode 4.4 and newer autosynthesizes ivars for your properties: if you have a property propertyName, then Xcode will autosynthesize ivar _propertyName. Your property Elevator2View will have _Elevator2View ivar. So unless you really really need to have ivars with different naming scheme, you can get rid of your #synthesize, and you also don't need to declare ivars for you properties.
(Though I prefer to declare ivars for properties (following Xcode naming scheme), because far too often lldb doesn't show autosynthesized-without-declaring ivars in object inspector.)
That was about properties, ivars and naming conventions. But what are you doing in this code?
-(IBAction)level1:(id)sender;{
favoriteColorTextField.text = #"1";
Elevator2View.favoriteColorString = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Your favorite color is %#", favoriteColorTextField.text];
[self presentModalViewController:[[[Elevator2View alloc] init]
autorelease] animated:NO];
}
You set value of Elevator2View's - your instance variable's - property, then create brand new object of Elevator2View class and present that as modal view controller. (By the way, presentModalViewController:animated: is deprecated in iOS 6.0). Of course, this brand new Elevator2View object has no idea what Elevator2View's (your instance variable's) properties are!