Question

I have a main view controller and am presenting a child view. For one of the settings inside the child, I need to call the main view controller again. It would just make things a lot easier.

The following causes a hierarchy problem:

#define appDelegate (MyAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]

[self presentViewController:[appDelegate mainViewController] animated:YES completion:^{}];

Is there any way to call the mainViewController easily while not losing the state of the child view?

EDIT

Here is how I’m presenting the child view.

ChildViewController *childViewController = [[ChildViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:childViewController];
[childViewController release];
[self presentModalViewController:navigationController animated:NO];
[navigationController release];

Answer 1

You can’t present a view controller that has already been presented or is in a navigation stack. What is the mainViewController? Did you instantiate it? Has it been added to the screen yet?

If yes to both, you either need to back into it (dismiss to it) or remove it from it’s parent first and then present it.