UINavigationBar title and a right button

Question

Hi, I have a navigation controller and in it a view controller:

-NavigationController1
--MyViewController

And as well I have another navigation controller - NavigationController2. I want to call MyViewController from another view controller - ViewController2, that was pushed into NavigationController2. -NavigationController2 --ViewController2

I do it in the following way:

@implementation ModifyDicVController

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [ [ [UIBarButtonItem alloc]
        initWithBarButtonSystemItem:
        UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd target:self
        action:@selector(add_clicked)] autorelease];

}


-(void) add_clicked
{
    [navigationController pushViewController: addWordsVController animated: YES];
}

@end

And here is the viewWillAppear method of MyViewController(the one that is being called):

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    [self setTitle: @"My title"];
}

I am adding a "done" button to the Navigation Bar when user starts to edit a text field:

- (void) textFieldDidBeginEditing: (UITextField *) textField
{ 
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] 
       initWithTitle: NSLocalizedString(@"button: done", @"")
       style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone 
       target:self 
       action:@selector(doneEditing)] 
       autorelease];
}

The problem is: if I call MyViewController from ViewController2 that was pushed into NavigationController2 and after that I call MyViewController from its own NavigationController1, the title of a navigation bar and a done button is not being added. However viewWillAppear and textFieldDidBeginEditing methods of MyViewController are being called.

What is the problem and how can I fix it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your question is a little confusing.

I "think" you are saying you are having issues communicating between view controllers.

If this is the case, the real issue is that your view controllers should NOT be communicating with each other. They, instead should be storing state in a model.

If you do this, then you will have no issues. Consider having a model singleton to save the information that is getting lost.

If I have misunderstood your issue, please let me know.