iOS PresentModalViewController not working - ios

I am inside a root view controller. and then allocate the secondviewcontroller
SecondViewControl *second=[[SecondViewControl alloc] init];
[self presentModalViewController:second animated:NO];
The second viewcontroller 's view not showing up
AddSubView method works though.
[self.view addSubView:second.view];
why presetModalViewController is not working?

Usually you'll allocate the SecondViewControl with a .xib file that actually defines the user interface. Consider using a line like this (broken for readability):
SecondViewControl *second = [[SecondViewControl alloc]
initWithNibName:#"SecondView"
bundle:nil];
Without the accompanying .xib to define the view, you may be left with a view controller that doesn't have the necessary properties set to actually support user interaction, and so presentModalViewController: may have trouble there.

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I want to put a view controller inside a scroll view.
I think I can do it with something like:
MyViewController *vc = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyViewController" bundle:nil];
[scrollView addSubview:vc];
What I don't understand is how to specify my nib name correctly, because I have an interface built which I want to use but it is one of multiple views appearing in my main storyboard.
You cannot add a viewController as a subview. You can add a childViewController and the viewController's view as a subview. But you should probably read up more on how Objective-C and iOS works.

UISplitViewController is not being displayed correctly

I created and loaded a UISplitViewController in an existing ViewController by writing the following code in the viewDidLoad method:
LeftPanelViewController *leftPanel = [[LeftPanelViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"LeftPanelViewController" bundle:nil];
FirstViewController *firstView = [[FirstViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"FirstViewController_iPad" bundle:nil];
self.navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:firstView];
UISplitViewController *splitController = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
splitController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:leftPanel, self.navigationController, nil];
[self.view addSubview:splitController.view];
[self addChildViewController:splitController];
[splitController didMoveToParentViewController:self];
Everything is fine except for the fact that the splitController is not being drawn in the borders of the iPad, there's a space between the top of the screen and the top of the view. Even when I rotate the iPad the left panel is also having the same problem.
SplitViewController doesn't have a xib file, and when I change the added view for another that has, everything is correctly displayed.
Any ideas of what may cause this problem?
Notes:
Compiling and running the project in the simulator multiple times causes the SplitViewController to be displayed sometimes without any problems and others with spaces between any of the edges of the screen and the view. Running in the iPad causes always the same problem.
First of all.. why do you implement a container view controller? I guess you just want to present the splitViewController on its own, right? Than don't add the view yourself.
Instead correctly set it as your rootViewController on your window (preferably in applicationDidFinishLaunching).
self.window.rootViewController = splitViewController;
Container View Controller are not needed in standard cases. So you should never need to use the following methods:
addChildViewController:
removeFromParentViewController
willMoveToParentViewController:
didMoveToParentViewController:
Check the documentation of UIViewController.
If you really wanted to implement a Container View Controller, than you need to take care of the layout yourself. So you need to position / size the view of the other controller yourself. Depending on if you use AutoLayout or autoresizing, you need to set correct constraints/flags.

Can an editable UITextView be embedded in a UIPopoverController?

I'm attempting to embed an editable UITextView inside a UIPopoverController, with... strange results. The steps I've taken are:
Create a custom UIViewController class, and create a .xib file with that controller with a UITextView inside it.
When the UI action that should bring up the controller occurs (touch up inside), I instantiate the controller and its view from the .xib file.
I create a new UIPopoverController, with the view controller I just instantiated as the content view.
I present it with presentPopoverFromRect:inView:permittedArrowDirections:animated:
Here's some example code:
- (void)noteButtonPressed:(id)sender {
self.noteview = [[MyTextPopupViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MyTextPopupViewController" bundle:nil ];
UIPopoverController *popoverController = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:self.noteview];
self.popover = popoverController;
self.popover.delegate = self;
[self.popover presentPopoverFromRect:((UIView*)sender).frame
inView:self.view
permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny
animated:YES];
}
Then, inside MyTextPopupViewController, I make sure the the text view is the first responder to bring up the keyboard:
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[self.view becomeFirstResponder];
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
}
And that all works... right until it doesn't. Sometimes, it works perfectly; other times, either immediately or after a few keystrokes, the application crashes by exiting the main event loop (!). No exception is thrown (at least not that the lldb catches), but the application simply stops, both on the simulator and on hardware.
Any thoughts? Has anyone gotten this working successfully, or knows for sure that it does not?
I think the UIPopoverController instance needs to be a property in your code.

pushViewController does not cause new controller to draw view

Preface: I am not using *.xib files.
I instantiate a UINavigationController in a class that effectively serves as my 'rootViewController'. This 'rootViewController' also has two UITableViewController members that are drawn on different sections of the iPad screen. One of which is set as the root view for the navigation controller. Let's call it tableViewControllerA.
The problem is, when I invoke pushViewController on a valid UINavigationController, I see no effect:
[tableViewControllerA.navigationController pushViewController:tableViewControllerX animated:YES];
I've gathered from the posts I've searched today, that this push method should in turn cause the screen to redraw the top of stack controller.view. This is not what I'm seeing.
It seemed there was a disconnect in my implementation, and it was time to reference a working example in my environment (xcode 4.0). Assuming the canned templates would provide a working basis, I created a new navigation-based applications. I simply modified didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: as follows.
UIViewController *view1 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
UIViewController *view2 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
view1.title = #"view1";
view2.title = #"view2";
[self.navigationController pushViewController:view1 animated:YES];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:view2 animated:YES];
self.window.rootViewController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:view1];
[view1 release];
[view2 release];
I found similar results. When I launch the simulator the screen title reads the title of whatever the self.window.rootViewController is pointing at. With the code as is, the title of the resulting top screen reads "view1". When I initWithRootViewController:view2, the resulting top screen reads "view2".
So please tell me I'm stupid cuz xyz...
Thanks.
Here are some references and suggestions:
Simple tutorial for navigation based application:
http://humblecoder.blogspot.com/2009/04/iphone-tutorial-navigation-controller.html
Here is another one to create the step by step navigation controller and adding the views:
http://www.icodeblog.com/2008/08/03/iphone-programming-tutorial-transitioning-between-views/
and here a bit advance with navigation + tab bar controller:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/CombiningToolbarandNavigationControllers/CombiningToolbarandNavigationControllers.html
Without seeing your code, I have 2 theories:
Your syntax and calls are wrong when you do the push. Use this as a model:
-(void)Examplemethod {
AnotherClassViewController *viewController = [[[AnotherClassViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"AnotherClassView" bundle:nil] autorelease];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewController animated:YES];
}
You are never adding the navigation controller to the view hierarchy which never adds the view either. Take a look at this.

How do you switch to a split view. If you don't start with one

I'm looking to find out how to switch to a UISplitView from another view. The user will click on a button and the Split View should open. I'm having no luck at all.
I start with a normal view and when the user clicks on the button i try to switch to the split view by removing the current view and initing the split view controller. I would just use a nib to load it but split views don't have nib files.
Is there anyone that can get me the simplest way to do this.
You have to create the UISplitViewController programatically. You have to give it an array of two UIViewController objects (these can be from nib files). Then when you want to load the split view you send the message [window addSubView:splitViewController.view]
i have practically done something like this.
i declared a SplitViewController in viewDidLoad at one of my viewcontroller (FrameViewController)
Then i added the splitViewController that i have just declared into AppDelegate's window variable. (i have tried declaring another UIWindow variable and add SplitViewController's view to it, it will throw wait_fences: failed to receive reply: 10004003 when u change orientation)
then, set your viewController's view to hidden so that the SplitViewController will be displayed correctly..
Voila~
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
appDelegate = (iPadProject2AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
ContentViewController* secondVC = [[ContentViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"ContentView" bundle:nil];
MenuViewController* firstVC = [[MenuViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"MenuView"
bundle:nil
withContentViewController:secondVC];
UISplitViewController* splitVC = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
splitVC.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:firstVC, secondVC, nil];
[appDelegate.window addSubview:splitVC.view];
[self.view setHidden:YES];}
BTW,
you should add these code into Yit Ming's code:
[[self view] removeFromSuperview];
Or the Split View will not work while you change the orientation.

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