Question

Follow up question on this one

Say my app has several ViewControllers, let’s call them A,B,C,D. Usually moving back one step, i.e. from D -> C, would be using the back button in the NavigationBar or via code with the line

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

What I want to do is going back several steps, like from D -> B. This would be done with

[self.navigationController popToViewController:B animated:YES];

Unfortunately this way I can’t decide which animation to use. Instead of the default animation I have to use a Flip animation.

The only way to do this I found was this method

[self.navigationController transitionFromViewController:self.navigationController.presentedViewController toViewController:B duration:300 options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight animations:nil completion:nil]; 

Is this the only way to achieve this or can anyone suggest a better way to do it?

Answer 1

With reference from your comments….

” sounds right, but where would I define that it’s supposed to be a flip animation? As far as I can see this still uses the default animation. – taymless “

you need to perform the animation means you use this block of code….

  -(void)animatefromView:(UIView*)fromView toBlock:(void (^)(void))block // note block may be any executable code...
    {
        [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
        [UIView setAnimationDuration: 1];
        [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft forView:fromView cache:NO];
        block();
        [UIView commitAnimations];

    }

and the method call will be….

[self animatefromView:self.navigationController.view toBlock:^{ 
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:ani animated:NO];
                                                                    }];

i hope this will help you…