Question

I have a Navigation Controller that is presented modally with 4 views in the stack. The final view has a done button that dismisses the modal view. When I then present the modal view again, it automatically goes to that last view instead of the first one. I added a line to pop to first view after dismissed but it adds a weird animation whether I set it to YES or NO. Maybe I’m doing it wrong?

- (void)dismissModalView
{
    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    [self.navigationController popToViewController:[self.navigationController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:([self.navigationController.viewControllers count] -4)] animated:YES];
}

Update:

This is the method used to present the modal view/navcontroller

- (void)showModalView
{
    self.optionsNavController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
    [self.navigationController presentModalViewController:self.optionsNavController animated:YES];
}

Answer 1

No, it looks right. If you want to retain the state of the Navigation controller then don’t present it modally as it will get deallocated when you dismiss the view.

Modal views are usually used to present information that only needs to be shown briefly without maintaining the state of the view (i.e. about page, login page, settings page, etc).