Question

I have a navigation controller…. and tableview like so:

Item A >
Item B >
Item C >
Item D >
Map >

Clicking on a table cell takes you to the details view for Item X of course. The map view shows pinpoints for items A-D. There is a disclosure button on the annotation callout. The disclosure button code does this:

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:true];
//Now what???

What I would like to do at this point is push the detail view for Item X after popping the map view. What is the proper way to do this?

Answer 1

Not proud of this, but… I did come up with a solution. I set a tag value for the individual annotations based on the index of the array used to set up the tableview.

-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView annotationView:(MKAnnotationView *)view calloutAccessoryControlTapped:(UIControl *)control {
//So, we clicked that disclosure button
//TODO: This is really hacky...  What is proper way to do this?
ServicesViewController *vc = [self.navigationController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1];  
[vc infoButtonPressed:control.tag];

}

Now in ServicesViewController we can do this:

- (void) infoButtonPressed:(NSInteger) index {

// decided against this first step, as graver's answer explains, it does not really make sense
//[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:false];

//index should be nav array index we want to push
//so simulate a table-row click
[self tableView:self.tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:index inSection:0]];

}