Question

I have a Settings popover. I have a button (More Info) in that popover. When the user clicks on that button, I want to bring up another view and I want to dismiss the popover.

How do I do this from my More Info button that is actually inside the popover?

Current I have a function that handles the button press:

 - (IBAction)showFullVersionInfo:(id)sender
   {
     [self dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
     parent.settingsPopover = nil;

     //need to show more Info...

   }

The parent holds a reference ‘settingsPopover’ to the popover and I want to clear it.

Answer 1

You don’t want to do this from inside the popover controller. The popover controller should manage only the contents of your popover, not how and when the popover is shown/hidden.

You can do such actions only in the parent controller. Hide the popover only from the controller which has shown it (and owns it).

Your question should actually be: how to tell the parent controller that the user has performed some action inside the popover?

And the answer is: delegate.
Define a delegate, implement it in your parent controller, pass it to your popover and in IBAction call delegate method.