Question

I have two programmatically created buttons you can see in my viewDidLoad method. On the modal window I have a button that calls the cancelSearch method via a delegate. When I place a breakpoint on my cancelSearch method it is hit, so I know my delegate is set up correct, but even though it calls this line [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil]; it’s not actually closing the modal window.

The code below is all from my main controller view.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UIBarButtonItem *actionButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAction target:self  action:@selector(showActionMenu:)];
    actionButton.style = UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;

    UIBarButtonItem *searchButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemSearch target:self  action:@selector(showSearchMenu:)];
    searchButtonItem.style = UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;

    UIToolbar* toolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 103.0f, 44.01f)];
    NSArray* buttons = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:actionButton, searchButtonItem, nil];
    [toolbar setItems:buttons animated:NO];
    self.navigationItem.title = @"Census Management";
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:toolbar];


    [[RKClient sharedClient] get:@"censusmanagement" delegate:self]; 
}

- (IBAction)showActionMenu:(id)sender
{
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier: @"CMActionSegue" sender: self];
}

- (IBAction)showSearchMenu:(id)sender
{
    ehrxCMSearchView *search = [[self storyboard] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"cmSearch"];
    search.selectedOptions = self.selectedOptions;

    search.delegate = self;

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:search animated:YES];
}

- (void)cancelSearch:(ehrxCMSearchView *)controller
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

Answer 1

You would dismiss a modal view using something similar to:

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

This will dismiss the modal view which was loaded using something similar to:

[self presentModalViewController:search animated:YES];

However looking at your code snippet, it appears the search view controller is being pushed onto the navigation stack using the following line:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:search animated:YES];

So I you probably need to pop the view from the navigation stack rather than trying to dismiss it as a modal view:

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];