Recreate the default pushViewController animation programmatically (without a navigation controller) - ios

Question

I want to create a View outside of the visible screen and push in it (like the default pushViewController animation), but I cannot create the UIView outside. I was trying this code here, but it doesn't work. The View gets always created and displayed in the current UIScreen bounds. That means instead of both views, the one to get pushed out and the one to get pushed in, only the view that goes out "moves", the new view just sits at it's place.
In the the .m of the view to show:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// set the views frame off the screen
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(320, 0, 320, 460);
}
In the method that actually does the transition:
-(void)showOverview:(UIViewController *)sender //sender = mapviewController
{
NSLog(#"overview");
// current view (frame) = mapviewCOntroller.view
CGRect outFrame = self.view.frame;
if (!self.overviewViewController) {
self.overviewViewController = [[UCOverviewViewController alloc] init];
self.overviewViewController.transitionDelegate = self;
// create a new View for the overview
[self.overviewViewController.view setCenter:self.view.center];
[self.view.window addSubview:self.overviewViewController.view];
[self.view.window bringSubviewToFront:self.mapViewController.view];
}
CGRect inFrame = self.overviewViewController.view.frame;
outFrame.origin.x = outFrame.origin.x-outFrame.size.width;
inFrame.origin.x = self.view.frame.origin.x;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations: ^{
[self.view setFrame:outFrame];
}];
}
EDIT: this is my final code, at least the important part. Now, the view thats currently visible gets slider off screen at the same time the off-screen view gets slide in.
-(void)showOverview
{
if (!self.overviewViewController) {
NSLog(#"OverviewViewController created!");
self.overviewViewController = [[UCOverviewViewController alloc] init];
self.overviewViewController.transitionDelegate = self;
// add the subView
[self.view addSubview:self.overviewViewController.view];
[self.view sendSubviewToBack:self.overviewViewController.view];
}
CGRect outFrame = self.mapViewController.view.frame;
CGRect inFrame = self.overviewViewController.view.frame;
outFrame.origin.x -= outFrame.size.width;
inFrame.origin.x = self.view.frame.origin.x;
self.isOverviewViewVisible = YES;
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations: ^{
[self.mapViewController.view setFrame:outFrame];
[self.overviewViewController.view setFrame:inFrame];
}];
}

Answer 1

your problem is this line.
self.overviewView = self.overviewViewController.view;
You're overriding the view you created with the view you already have.
the following is not a great way to do it but it should work with what I think you have.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
self.overviewViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(320, 0, 320, 460);
self.overviewViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}
Then you want another action to do the animations.
[UIView animateWithDuration:0.5f animations: ^{
self.overviewViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,460);
}];

Answer 2

There are weird and incorrect things in your code that make it confusing to understand what is actually going on, but... forget about using the window anywhere. The only thing you need to worry about, is this. Say View A is your main view. View B is the view you want outside and to come in over A. Then, create B either from nib or manually, add it as a subview to view A, and before you enter the animation block to move it into place, make sure that the current frame is set to {ViewA.bounds.size.width, 0, ViewB.bounds.size.width, ViewB.bounds.size.height}. Assuming you want it to come in from the top right.