Question

I have made a plugin for the iphone which is working fine. I can call all the native methods. I also made a custom view (.xib file) which i want to load. But i can’t figure out how to do this with phonegap in the way.

Normally i would do something like:

[self addSubView:myView2];

But this doesn’t work.

Anyone any idea how to load and display a custom made .xib file when using phonegap??

Answer 1

Have you used Child browser plugin so far, this plugin also contain ChildBrowserViewController.xib . So to call another xib in your Phonegap you need to modify your- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
method in appDelgate.m file.

Some how in your HTML and javascript code, you need to provide special link (using href or window.location method) that you need to handle in shouldStartLoadWithRequestmethod, import your #import MyCustomViewController.h in your appDelegate.m file.

Please have look at the following snippet-

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    //return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType ];
    NSURL *url = [request URL];
    if([request.URL.absoluteString isEqualToString:@"about:blank"])
        return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request
                navigationType:navigationType ];
    if ([[url scheme] isEqualToString:@"gap"]) {
        return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request
                navigationType:navigationType ];
    } 
        else {
        NSString *urlFormat = [[[url path] componentsSeparatedByString:@"."] lastObject];
        if ([urlFormat compare:@"xib"] == NSOrderedSame) {
            [theWebView sizeToFit];
            MyCustomViewController* customVC = [ [ MyCustomViewController alloc ] initWithScale:FALSE ];
            customVC.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
            customVC.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
            [super.viewController presentModalViewController:customVC animated:YES ];           
            [customVC release];
            //return YES;
            return NO;  
        } 
        else
            return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request
                    navigationType:navigationType ];    
    } 
}

thanks,
mayur