View controller chain

Question

I have a Navigation Controller with a root table view which has several links. Tapping each link moves to the next view (by pushing it to the navigation controller's stack). But suppose that in that "next view", I have a UIButton that should take me further to another view (by pushing on to the same navigation controller's stack)...

View Controller-->first view-->second view-->third view..........

Now, I can easily access the Navigation Controller when I deal with the first view (and successfully push it to the Navigation Controller's stack) because it has been instantiated in the same file itself. What my real doubt is--How do you access a Navigation Controller in a far off view controller (eg, the third view or fourth view etc)? Please note that I am not using any separate delegate. All the Navigation Bar methods have been implemented in one file and connected to the Navigation Controller via an outlet.

Answer 1

When you push a ViewController onto a NavigationController the ViewController will automatically have it's navigationController property set. This means you can access the same NAvigationController no matter where you are in the stack.

-Update-

navigationController

In every UIViewController you can access that property. So to in any other UIViewController that has been pushed onto the stack you should be able to just do this:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:othercontroller animated:YES];

Look at the documentation for UIViewController to see what other magic properties you have available.