presentmodalviewcontroller not working properly in Application Delegate in iPhone

Question

Hi, I'm using two UIViewController in Application Delegate and navigating to UIViewController using presentmodalviewcontroller. But Problem is that presentmodalviewcontroller works for first time UIViewController and when i want to navigate to second UIViewController using presentmodalviewcontroller then its showing first UIViewController. The following is the code:-

-(void)removeTabBar:(NSString *)str
{
    HelpViewController *hvc =[[HelpViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"HelpViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
    VideoPlaylistViewController *vpvc =[[VideoPlaylistViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"VideoPlaylistViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
    if ([str isEqualToString:@"Help"])
    {
        [tabBarController.view removeFromSuperview];
        [vpvc dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
        [viewController presentModalViewController:hvc animated:YES];
        [hvc release];
    }
    if ([str isEqualToString:@"VideoPlaylist"])
    {
        [hvc dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
        [viewController presentModalViewController:vpvc animated:YES];
        [vpvc release];
    }
}

Can Somebody help me in solving the problem?

Answer 1

Hi,

You're making a new hvc and vpvc each time you run this function.

The first time through, I assume you call removeTabBar:@"Help", it makes a hvc and vpvc and then shows the correct one.

The second time you call it removeTabBar:@"VideoPlayList", you are making a new hvc and vpvc. This means that when you call hvc dismissModalViewController:YES]; you're not removing the one you added before, you're removing the new one that you just made which isn't being displayed at all!

To solve this you need to make your two controllers as properties in your app delegate and create them in the applicationDidFinishLaunching method.

Add these into your app delegate's .h file:

@class MyAppDelegate {
    HelpViewController *hvc;
    VideoPlaylistViewController *vpvc;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) HelpViewController *hvc;
@property (nonatomic, retain) VideoPlaylistViewController *vpvc;

@end

and in your app delegate's .m file :

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
    ...
    self.hvc = [[[HelpViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"HelpViewController" bundle:nil] autorelease];
    self.vpvc = [[[VideoPlaylistViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"VideoPlaylistViewController" bundle:nil] autorelease];
    ...
}

and remove the first two lines in removeTabBar