UISearchDisplayController automatically creates a UIPopovercontroller to display content search result ?! How to dismiss it ?

Question

Hi,

I'm using a UISearchDisplayController with a UISearchBar. I put this UISearchBar in my app using IB and I get :

Fine : when you start taping, the result popovercontroller appears magically (I didn't write anything on my own to make it appear !)

Then, when a row is clicked among the result, I want to dismiss the PopoverController BUT at this stage, I never instantiated the UIPopoverController on my side : it looks like if there's an encapsulated behavior in the UISearchDisplayController that automatically wraps its searchContentsController inside a UIPopoverController. That's really great because everything works perfectly without doing anything except that I cannot get the reference to this UIPopoverController to dismiss it :(

Does anyone know how to get the reference to this "magically" created UIPopoverController ? (this is the proof the iPad is really a "magical" device ;)

I thought there would be a reference to the UIPopoverController from its contentController (through its parent property for instance), but I cannot find any way to get a pointer to it :/

Answer 1

Can you add some more details on how you have wired up the UISearchDisplayController in IB? It does not do anything special with UIPopoverControllers on the iPad so I assume you have set the searchContentsController to a controller that is a UIPopoverController? If so then you already have the reference you need, though normally you do not need to dismiss this view, it is dismissed for you when you cancel the search.

Answer 2

Does [searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES]; not work then?