Question

I have a ViewController with a UITextField. The user enters a string of characters into the textField, clicks a done button and then this value should be passed to a method in the entity class. I know I need to pass this value as a parameter but I’m getting stuck.

I’ve tried to pass this value by adding a parameter to the end of the clickDone IBAction for the done button with no luck. Thank you for even the smallest bit of help or point into the right direction.

- (IBAction)doneClicked:(NSString*) name {
...
}

I’ve tried creating an ivar for ViewController in my entity class h file but Xcode asks “Unknown type name ‘ViewController’; did you mean UIViewController?

@interface EntityClass : NSManagedObject{
ViewController* refVC;
UITextField* textBox;
}

and then use

self.name = self.refVC.textBox.text; 

in my method in entity class m file to return the NSString self.name

Answer 1

I figured it out. This is my final code. It works. Help is no longer needed.

Thanks!

- (IBAction)doneClicked:(NSString*) name {
...

superClass.name = headingText.text;  //headingText is UITextField on ViewController

[superClass doSomething];
...
}