Question

I have been searching and trying to work this out for a few hours. I know that I’m making a very simple mistake, I just don’t know what it is!

I am trying to get the text that’s entered into two different UITextFields and put them into a table of another TableViewController.

My NSLog is returning that my addGuestViewController is receiving the text input, but not transferring it into my guestlistViewController.

guestlistViewController.h

@interface guestlistViewController : UITableViewController {
    NSString *firstnameInput;
    NSString *lastnameInput;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *firstnameInput;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *lastnameInput;

@end

guestlistViewController.m

@synthesize firstnameInput;
@synthesize lastnameInput;
NSString *fullname = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", firstnameInput, lastnameInput];

NSArray *array = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: fullname, nil];
NSLog(@"Their name is: "%@", fullname);

addGuestListViewController.h

@interface addGuestViewController : UITableViewController

@property NSString *firstnameInput;
@property NSString *lastnameInput;

@end

addGuestListViewController.m

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    firstnameInput = firstname.text;
    lastnameInput = lastname.text;

    if (textField == firstname) {
        [textField resignFirstResponder];
        [lastname becomeFirstResponder];
    } else if (textField == lastname) {
        [textField resignFirstResponder];
        [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"done" sender:self];
        NSLog(@"Their name is: %@, %@", firstnameInput, lastnameInput);
    }
    return YES;
}

If someone could inform me on what I’m doing wrong, it’d be a huge help as I’m fairly new to programming in Objective-C.

EDIT:

I was thinking that because I have my segue pointing to a navigation controller, it could be causing a problem, but not sure.

Answer 1

You’re not setting the properties, firstnameInput and lastnameInput of your guestlistViewController — In the textFieldShouldReturn: method, you’re assigning values from the text fields to the addGuestListViewController’s properties, not to the ones in guestlistViewController. You need to implement the method prepareForSegue:sender:, and in that method you get a reference to guestlistViewController with segue.destinationViewController. With that reference, you can set the values of the properties in that view controller. Something like this:

-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
     [(guestlistViewController *)[[(UINavigationController *)segue.destinationViewController viewControllers] lastObject] setFirstnameInput:firstnameInput];
     [(guestlistViewController *)[[(UINavigationController *)segue.destinationViewController viewControllers] lastObject] setLastnameInput:lastnameInput];
}