Setting a property in prepareForSegue using a popover - ios

Question

I have a ViewController that has a couple of buttons on it created in Interface Builder. The first button will display a popover linked up in IB, it is linked to a UINavigationController and has a TableView under it with a class of PopupViewController.
The second button, I have an action setup for goToCategory and when clicking on that, I want to set a property on the PopupViewController
ViewController.m
//go to category
-(IBAction)goToCategory:(id)sender{
NSLog(#"GO TO CAT");
//PopupViewController *popupVC = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"popoverVC"];
//popupVC.currentLevel = 1;
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"popoverSegue" sender:self];
}
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender{
NSLog(#"seg1");
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"popoverSegue"]){
//PopupViewController *popupVC = (PopupViewController *)[[segue destinationViewController] visibleViewController];
//PopupViewController *popupVC = [segue destinationViewController];
PopupViewController *popupVC=[[[segue destinationViewController]viewControllers]objectAtIndex:0];
popupVC.test = #"just a test";
NSLog(#"seg2");
}
}
PopupViewController.h
#property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *test;
PopupViewController.m
#synthesize test;
-(void)viewDidLoad{
NSLog(#"test: %#", test); //returns test: (null)
}
I've found a lot of answers on SO, hence some of the commented out lines in my prepareForSegue. But none of these set the value of test. PopupViewController *popupVC = [segue destinationViewController]; throws an error due to it referring to the UINavigationController so I can't use that as it is, even though that seems to be the way to do it in a lot of answers I've seen. But no matter which way I try doing it, the output is always null?
UPDATE:
PopupViewController *popupVC = (PopupViewController *)[[segue destinationViewController] visibleViewController]; and PopupViewController *popupVC=[[[segue destinationViewController]viewControllers]objectAtIndex:0]; from my prepareForSegue above both work on the 6.1 simulator. My iPad's iOS is 5.1.1 which it isn't working on. Is there something different I need to do for iOS 5?

Answer 1

Try this
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
NSLog(#"seg1");
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"popoverSegue"])
{
UINavigationController *navController = (UINavigationController*)[segue destinationViewController];
PopupViewController *popupVC = [navController topViewController];
popupVC.test = #"just a test";
NSLog(#"seg2");
}
}