Stack Trace of NavigationController in UITabbarController - uinavigationcontroller

I have a uitabbarController, it has 4 Tabs. Each Tab has its own Navigation Based Stack Trace. A logout button on each screen Presents a Login Screen over my TabbarController.
But when i reLogin then my Tabbar old Stack remains there.
I want that whenever and from which ever screen I presses a Logout button it PopsOut all the View controllers of all tabs to Root View controller.
Can anybody guide me how to achieve this.
Thanks

Atlast I have solved it.
I created the following criteria and got what i needed. Using the following code you can pop All your Tab bars to their Respective Root View Controllers at One Time.
NSArray *temp = self.tabBarController.viewControllers;
NSLog(#"count of Temp = %d",[temp count]);
NSLog(#"Temp Array = %#",temp);
if ([temp count]>=1) {
for (int i=0; i<[temp count]; i++) {
UINavigationController *controller = [self.tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:i];
NSLog(#"controllers # index %d = %#",i,[controller class]);
[controller popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
}
Thanks
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UIButton to Navigation title

I have Two ViewController with Navigation controller,
and i want to press different button to change to next page and Next title also change when i hit a different button?
used this method??
- (void)viewDidLoad {
if Button == A;{
self.title = #"A";
}else Button == B {
self.title = #"B";
}
- (IBAction)A:(id)sender {
self.title =#"A";
}
- (IBAction)B:(id)sender {
self.title =#"B";
}
I know this is a wrong way, cause it just change first page title,but i want to change the second page only,and i just want to description that what i want to do,
please help,
Thanks
Pass your string (Which you want to set on next View Controller) from your first view controller to next view controller and put this self.title = Your passed string in next view controller's viewDidLoad()

How do I set up a Tab Bar Controller within an existing Navigation Controller?

I'm pretty new to iOS. I'm building an app and am running into an issue. I have a navigation controller with a table view controller atop its stack. When I select a row in that table view controller, what I'd like to see is a collection view with the following:
The nav bar with the name that appears on the selected cell as the navigation item title.
A collection view as the main interface
a tab bar with the collection view, and an imagePickerController
Here's what my code looks like:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NewTabBarController *tbc = [[NewTabBarController alloc] init];
UIImagePickerController *takeAPicture = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
UITabBarItem *tabItem = [takeAPicture tabBarItem];
[tabItem setImage:[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:#"CameraIcon.jpg"]];
[tabItem setTitle:#"Take a photo!"];
UICollectionViewFlowLayout *photoFlow = [[UICollectionViewFlowLayout alloc] init];
PhotoCollectionViewController *photoHub = [[PhotoCollectionViewController alloc] initWithCollectionViewLayout:photoFlow];
[tbc setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:photoHub, takeAPicture, nil]];
NSArray *items = [[items accessor] allItems];
Item *item = [items objectAtIndex:[indexPath row]];
[photoHub setItem:item];
[photoHub useLayoutToLayoutNavigationTransitions];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:tbc animated:YES];
}
Then in my PhotoCollectionViewController implementation I have:
#syntesize item;
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
UINavigationItem *itemHeader = [self navigationItem];
[itemHeader setTitle:[item itemName]];
UITabBarItem *tabItem = [self tabBarItem];
[tabItem setImage:[UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:#"itemImage.jpg"]];
[tabItem setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Photos of %#", [item itemName]]];
}
My problem is that when I select the cell, The collection view loads, and I can see the cells I have set up in the collection view, but the nav bar item has no title, and the tab bar item has "Photos of (null)" and no image. The "Take a photo!" text appears, but the image does not.
Do you guys have any idea how I can restructure this to make everything flow correctly. I must be doing something wrong in the way I'm utilizing tab and nav controllers.I don't want there to be any tabs until this stage in the app, which is 3 or 4 VCs in already. Should I be using a tab bar controller from the App Delegate onward?
The problem here is that you are pushing tab bar controller onto a navigation controller stack. The view controllers of a tab bar will have a navigation item, but their navigation items aren't shown when the view controller is on screen. Instead, the tab bar controller's navigation item is on screen.
You could use self.tabBarController.navigationItem, but then each view controller will have to modify the navigation item every time it's brought on/off screen, which is really messy.
If you're going to use a UITabBarController, I would recommend either presenting it modally, or having it be the root view controller on your UIWindow. It's tough to get it working right as a view controller in a navigation controller's view controller stack.
Your tab bar item not showing its name is a separate issue. It's because viewDidLoad is getting called before you set your item instance, specifically it's getting called when you call [tbc setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:photoHub, takeAPicture, nil]];
You can confirm this by breakpointing in view did load, where you'll see that item is nil. If you haven't already, you should overload your setItem: method in PhotoCollectionViewController, and have that method also update your UI.

Where does this backBarButtonItem come from again?

I have a UINavigationController (A) which has a few subviews which also are UIViewControllers (B and C). The main UINavigationController (A) rides inside of a UITabViewController (D).
I'm trying to push a view controller within B:
[self.navigationController pushViewController... etc]
Now, the backBarButtonItem comes through with the wrong text. Instead of saying 'Back', it just says 'Item'. This is likely because one of the view controllers in my chain has its title set to 'Item' or maybe it is nil altogether.
My question is, where is the backBarButtonItem generated from?
I tried a few different things that didn't work. I tried each of these lines of code within B right before I pushed the view controller. None of them worked.
self.presentingViewController.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back"... etc
self.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back"... etc
self.navigationController.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back"... etc
I'd like to learn the principle here so that I truly understand where this item is being populated from and what the right way to do it is.
Let's say your C controller is on top of the navigation controller's stack, and your B controller is under that. E.g.
navigationController.viewControllers = #[ bViewController, cViewController ];
So the navigation controller is displaying cViewController.view.
The navigation controller uses the second-to-top controller on its stack to configure the back button. In this case, it uses bViewController to configure the back button. This is its algorithm:
UINavigationItem *navigationItem = bViewController.navigationItem;
UIBarButtonItem *barItem = navigationItem.backBarButtonItem;
if (barItem.image != nil) {
show a back button containing barItem.image;
}
else if (barItem.title != nil) {
if (barItem.title.length > 0) {
show a back button containing barItem.title;
} else {
don't show a back button;
}
}
else if (navigationItem.title != nil) {
if (navigationItem.title.length > 0) {
show a back button containing navigationItem.title;
} else {
don't show a back button;
}
}
else {
show a back button containing #"Back";
}

UINavigationCotroller backBarButtonItem with other target than self

I am trying to change the action executed by pressing the backBarButtonItem of a Navigation Controller.
I know that i have to edit the backBarButtonItem before the next view (on which the button with custom behavior should appear) is pushed. So in the previous ViewController i added the following code, to push via segue:
#pragma mark - segue methods
- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:#"SettingsToProfile"]) {
MyProfileViewController* myprofileVC = [segue destinationViewController];
myprofileVC.myProfile = myProfile;
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Settings_" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:myprofileVC action:#selector(popTOSettingsViewController:)];
} else {
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Settings" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
}
}
The title "Settings_" gets displayed correctly, but "target: myprofileVC action:#selector(popTOSettingsViewController:)" doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
Background:
MyProfileViewController is a View, where the user can edit his/her own information. Whenever the backbarbutton is clicked, i want to check if something in the GUI has been changed by the user. If thats the case, a UIAlterView should ask the user, if he/she wants to save the changing. I tried to work it out with, viewWillDissappear, but the AlterView gets displayed in the next ViewController (and program crashes, if i click on the alterViewButtons).
I'm not sure that you can change the target of a backBarButtonItem. How about self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem instead? There's a discussion at self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem not working ?? Why is the previous menu still showing as the button? that may be relevant.

UISplitviewcontroller not as a rootview controller

I am building my first iPad application. And one of my requirements is to deal with UISplitviewcontroller and UINavigationController.our proposed view hierarchy is (LoginView) ->UINavigationView(LandingView + CollectionView)->UISplitViewcontroller( DetailsView).Our app supports only landscape mode
I am referring this SO Question( and GILT app as well), as a newbi its hard for me to get it done based on that description.
So my questions are
1) How can I achieve same thing,if somebody can give small code snippets or reference to tutorial
2) As per Apples HIG, UISplitviewcontroller should be rootviewcontroller,what if it not. Will apple reject my app.(apparently GILT group has been approved)
3) I found MGSplitViewController , can I use that one not as root?
Any help would be appreciated. As a newbi i hope my question is genuine
If you want to use the out-of the box splitView it must be root; any hokeary-pokery here will either break apples guidelines or manifest very odd behaviour.
The MGSplitViewController is completely custom implementation of a SplitViewController. Its very good if you need that sort of thing, but some of the features are based round the fact that our app will be orientating.
Alternatively you could make your own. I have done this more than once and is easier than it sounds.
(LoginView)
->UINavigationView(LandingView + CollectionView)->UISplitViewcontroller(
DetailsView).
Based on an out-of-the-box UISplitView, I would suggest:
Make the splitView the root View.
Pop (not animated) a full screen Modal as soon as the app starts and allow the
user to navigate the loginView,
LandingView and collectView in this; i also recommend using a navController here.
Once the user is ready to proceed to
the splitView, populate the
splitView's rootView Controller and
DetailViewController with whatever
you want then ,animate the Modal out.
Dave does have a point, but i would look at it from the point of view that you are removing the choice of orientation from the user; removing standard choices (like supported orientations) because the designer assumes some configuration is more efficient will only annoy some users.
I did it by making a method in my detailViewController:
-(void)popHomeScreen:(BOOL)animated//OPENS THE HOMESCREEN IN A MODAL DISPLAY
{
firstRun=NO;
//myViewControllerForPopOver init here
myViewControllerForPopOver.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
myViewControllerForPopOver.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCrossDissolve;//simple anime
if (animated) [self presentModalViewController:myViewControllerForPopOver animated:YES];
else [self presentModalViewController:myViewControllerForPopOver animated:NO];
}
Then Call it in the detailViewControllers ViewDidAppear method:
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
if(firstRun)[self popHomeScreen:NO];
}
//YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO MAKE 'firstRun=YES' in viewDidLoad
//firstRun is a BOOL
As for the root disappearing (leaving a big black space)..thats a known bug. though i thought for a while that it was caused by ordering an animation while/just before it was going to draw itself.
Also, i found that if i popped a full screen modal over the splitView then popped another form based modal (for example) quickly after it the full screen modal didn't draw properly.
SplitViews are like your mother-in-law, you don't really like them and when you have to use them you have to tip-toe round the landmines.
Try this, it works for me
1) in app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions make your login view to root view
self.window.rootViewController = self.loginViewController;
also, init the split view as the template do ( but not add to self.window)
MasterViewController *masterViewController = [[[MasterViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MasterViewController_iPad" bundle:nil] autorelease];
UINavigationController *masterNavigationController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:masterViewController] autorelease];
DetailViewController *detailViewController = [[[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"DetailViewController_iPad" bundle:nil] autorelease];
UINavigationController *detailNavigationController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:detailViewController] autorelease];
self.splitViewController = [[[UISplitViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
self.splitViewController.delegate = detailViewController;
self.splitViewController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:masterNavigationController ,detailNavigationController, nil];
2) add a swap view controller in app's delegate, which swap the root view to split viewcontroller.
-(void)swapToViewControllers:(RootViewControllerType)viewType
self.window.rootViewController = self.splitViewController;
3) invoke the swapToViewControllers in your login view.
Keep in mind that the HIG strongly encourages you to support all orientations. Unless you have a very, very good reason to support landscape only, you'll probably be rejected.
See page 19 of the HIG: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/iPadHIG/iPadHIG.pdf
Modified Ryan CY's version with storyboard.
Put this code to login controller.
1. Set storyboard id of UISplitViewController to SplitViewController;
2. Set UISplitViewController delegate and save instance
UISplitViewController* splitController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"SplitViewController"];
UINavigationController* navigationController = [splitController.viewControllers lastObject];
splitController.delegate = (id)navigationController.topViewController;
3. Change rootViewController after login
self.view.window.rootViewController = splitController;

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