how to make pushViewController: work in the following case? - ios

Question

I have a Navigation Controller embedded in a RootViewController. The elements present inside the RootViewController are a segmented control and a UIView. As the different segments are selected, the UIView displays a corresponding ViewController.
Now each of the ViewController being displayed in the UIView is a UITableViewController.
I need to display the table values as per the segment selections. And also if any of the row of the table is selected, it has to move to a newer ViewController with the detailed view.
I am able to display the UITableViewControllers as per the segment change. However, when i click on the row of the table, the newer ViewController that comes up is blank (Black Screen) even though I have created the particular ViewController in the Storyboard and set up an identifier as well.
Code for the Segmented Control change in ViewController.m
- (void)segmentedControlChangedValue:(UISegmentedControl*)segmentedControl {
int selIndex = segmentedControl.selectedIndex;
if (selIndex == 0)
{
aTable = [[aTableViewController alloc] init];
aTable.view.frame = self.myView.bounds;
[self.myView addSubview:aTable.view];
[self addChildViewController:aTable];
}
if (selIndex == 1)
{
bTable = [[bTableViewController alloc] init];
bTable.view.frame = self.myView.bounds;
[self.myView addSubview:bTable.view];
[self addChildViewController:bTable];
}
if (selIndex == 2)
{
//NSLog (#"Well you selected a 3rd option");
}}
Code for the didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
[super tableView:tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
newDetailController* newController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"Detail"];
newController = [[newDetailController alloc] init];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:newController animated:YES];}
The pushViewController pushes an empty view for me even though I have specified the ViewController to use in the Storyboard design and also using an identifier.
Please help me in understanding what I must do to rectify this error.
UPDATE - The above problem has been resolved.
The problem I face now is being unable to access the data in the newViewController.
I pass the data to the newViewController as follows:
Create a class named newClass which contains all the elements I want to pass across.
Create a NSMutableArray "newObjects" in the firstViewController.
Create each newClass object at this method.
(UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath object:(PFObject *)object
{
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"Cell";
customBigTableCell *cell = (customBigTableCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if (cell == nil) {
cell = [[customBigTableCell alloc] init];
}
cell.name.text = [object objectForKey:#"objName"];
newClass* newObj = [[newClass alloc] init];
newObj.objName = cell.name.text;
[newObjects addObject:newObj];
return cell;
}
Pls pardon me .. for the indenting with the code block is messed up...
Also the PFObject is cos i use Parse for database.
Add the created object to the newObjects array.
In the - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath method, this is the code
(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
[super tableView:tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
UIStoryboard* storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"MainStoryboard" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
newDetailController* newController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"UpcomingDetail"];
obj = [[newClass alloc] init];
NSIndexPath* path = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
obj = [newObjects objectAtIndex:path.row];
NSLog(#"Row selected is %ld", (long)path.row); //this returns the correct row selected
NSLog(#"Movie selected is %#", [[newObjects objectAtIndex:path.row] objName]);//however this is not the right one as per the cellForRowAtIndexPath method.
[newController setNewObj:obj];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:newController animated:YES];
}
When I run this code, the row is selected correctly. However I dont get the corresponding row in the database. The array gets stored with redundant data.

Answer 1

You need to get rid of that middle line:
newController = [[newDetailController alloc] init];
That just redefines newController (as an empty controller with no view set up), which you defined in the first line.