Question

I have a UIView (menuView in code below) of size 320×218 inside a view. I want to load a navigation controller into this view. Im using the following code to do that:

MenuViewController *menuController = [[MenuViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MenuViewController" bundle:nil];

UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:menuController];
navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;

[menuView addSubview:navigationController.view];
[menuController release];
[navigationController release];

When I execute it, the root view is not displayed in that view. Only a navigation bar is displayed and the rest of the view is empty.

Edit:

I just placed an NSLog() in both initWithNibName: and viewDidLoad: of MenuViewController. The one in initWithNibName: gets called but the one in viewDidLoad: doesn’t :S

Update:

I tried to push menuController to my navigationController thinking since its not appearing, it might not be on the stack. Exception:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Pushing the same view controller instance more than once is not supported

Answer 1

I found the answer here:

UIViewController -viewDidLoad not being called

I had to add these lines of code after -initWithRootViewController in order to load the view of my root view Controller:

navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
[navigationController setView:menuController.view];