How do I push UIVIewController on modalViewController? - uinavigationcontroller

I have tabbar + navigation app. I call filterModalController:
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:filterModalController animated:YES];
It appeared OK. Then I want to push officeController.
[self.navigationController pushViewController:officeController animated:YES];
But officeController didn't appeared. What is wrong?

My understanding is that modal view controllers are not meant to push other view controllers, so you may want to think about the hierarchy of views you are using. Modals are meant to return to the parent view controller. You may need to call
[self.navigationController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
before you push the officeViewController.
When I ran into this, I ended up pushing a Navigation controller as the modal view controller, with the 'filterModalController' as the root view controller. Since you already have a navigation controller, this may make things too confusing.
UINavigationController* filterNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]
initWithRootViewController:filterModalController];
// Display the nav controller modally.
[self presentModalViewController:filterNavController animated:YES];
[locationNavController release];
Then the filterNavController can push your officeController.

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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.

Odd UINavigationController and UIPopOverController behavior

I am presenting a popover with my viewcontroller:
UIBarButtonItem *barButton = (UIBarButtonItem*)sender;
SettingsViewController *settingsViewController = [[SettingsViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:barButton andController:settingsViewController andSize:CGSizeMake(RECT_POPOVER_SETTINGS.size.width, RECT_POPOVER_SETTINGS.size.height)];
and inside this view controller I have a button that pushes another view controller.
AnotherViewController *anotherViewController = [[AnotherViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:anotherViewController animated:YES];
Now in this view controller I have an action, and when it's done I do:
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Now the strange behavior is that when I pop the view controller, the
viewWillAppear
method gets called in SettingsViewController, then the breakpoints come back to pop method inside my anotherViewController.
This is a universal App so I am using this same setup on the iPhone, but without the initial UIPopOverController. This is functioning properly in the iPhone (with no popovers, pop method gets called first, then viewWillAppear), but on the iPad the viewWillAppear gets called first, then pop.
So my question is, can somebody explain why this is happening?
Thanks.

storyboard navigation Item link to a uiviewcontroller

I create a split view project, on the iPhone's storyboard, i drag a bar button item to the navigation right and change the style Add, and i drag a view controller to the storyboard, so i use control-drag to build the link, and change the uiviewcontroller's custom class "AddViewController", when i run the project and push the DetailViewController, it is black view.
And i have input the code on the AddViewController.m
-(void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:#"MainStoryboard_iPhone" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *vc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"AddViewController"];
[vc setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCurrentContext];
[self presentModalViewController:vc animated:YES];
}
i found the reason
On the my create "AddCreateViewController", i should comment the function.
- (void)loadView
{
// If you create your views manually, you MUST override this method and use it to create your views.
// If you use Interface Builder to create your views, then you must NOT override this method.
}

Refreshing tabbarcontroller views on logout in iPhone application

We have a tab bar + navigation control project. We have created a tab bar through interface builder and added all tab items to the tab bar controller through through interface builder.
Our application has a login screen which we are showing as a modal form at the beginning. Once the user is authenticated, the login screen is dismissed (using dismissModalScreen) and the MainWindow is shown. This is all working fine.
Now, we have a logout option clicking on which we should show the login screen back. We are able to show that as well. But the issue is once the user is authenticated again, we want all the screens to be loaded freshly. Currently, all screens maintain their state and retain previous data.
What we have tried to do is:
[AppDelegate tabBarController release];
AppDelegate.tabBarController = nil;
We have tried releasing the tabBarController and setting it to nil. But once the view is shown, we are not able to select any of the tabs and the view is blank.
What we need is:
Once the user logs in second time, how to release and reload each viewcontroller which are part of tabbar.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
We have found a way out. What we are doing now is, once the user logs back in, we are releasing the view controllers and recreating them and setting it back to the uitabbar.
NSMutableArray *arrControllers = [[AppDelegate.tabBarController.viewControllers] mutablecopy];
[arrControllers removeAtIndex:3];
[arrControllers removeAtIndex:2];
----Create New Controllers
UIViewController viewController2 = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"viewController2" bundle:nil] autorelease];
UIViewController viewController3 = [[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"viewController3" bundle:nil] autorelease];
--Create Nav controller
UINavigationController navViewController2 = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController2 ] autorelease];
UINavigationController navViewController3 = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController3 ] autorelease];
[arrControllers addObject:navViewController2];
[arrControllers addObject:navViewController3];
[AppDelegate.tabViewController setViewControllers:arrControllers];
It is working fine after this change.
Only problem we faced was if we release all objects from the array, we get a carsh. Is it because, when you release allObjects, the first controller which is the RootViewController is getting released?
Thanks

popToRootViewControllerAnimated toolbar not correctly updating

I have a UITabBarController whose tabs are UINavigationController. I have initialized each navigationController by:
iPhoneApp *appDelegate = (iPhoneApp *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[appDelegate.navigationController2 initWithRootViewController:countryController];
I then drill down the navigationController with:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:myViewController animated:YES];
I want to pop to the root of my navigationController(s) when the user clicks on a tabBar tab.
[delegate.navigationController2 popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
This seems to work great when I only pushViewController one level, but fails when I drill down multiple levels in my navigationController. What happens is that it pops to root but doesn't contain my Root's backbutton or title:
self.navigationItem.title = #"My title";
self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
UIBarButtonItem *cancelButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#"Back"
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone
target:self
action:#selector(handleBack:)];
if I don't poptoroot and just use the navigationControlls back button, everything works correctly.
I logged my viewControllers before and after i poptoroot
before:
MainCountryController: 0x3d53650,
IndividualCountryMfgViewController: 0x3d67d50,
IndividualCountryProductViewController: 0x3d60870
after:
MainCountryController: 0x3d53650
it's the right view, but wrong toolbar title and backbutton.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help.
I got this working by disconnecting my navigation controllers from IB an just creating them programatically.

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