Question

I want to push viewControllers to an area on my main viewController. From what I understand, you can’t use a NavigationController unless you are adding it to a UIWindow.

This animation reminds of UIScrollView horizontal scrolling. But I want it to work like a NavigationController instead. The ViewControllers will be changed when the user presses on specific actions.

ViewController2 is going to be a tableView with some other buttons.

ViewController3 is going to be a form to change the object from the tableView.

Answer 1

I Actually solved it by playing around with UIView Animations.

-(void)slideInView:(UIView*)newView toView:(UIView*)oldView {
    /* Sets the view outside the right edge and adds it to mainView */
    newView.bounds = mainView.bounds;
    newView.frame = CGRectMake(newView.frame.origin.x + 784, newView.frame.origin.y, newView.frame.size.width, newView.frame.size.height);
    [mainView addSubview:newView];

    /* Begin transition */
    [UIView beginAnimations:@"Slide Left" context:oldView];
    [UIView setAnimationDelegate:self];
    [UIView setAnimationDelay:0.0f];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5f];
    [UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector:@selector(slideInCompleted:finished:context:)];
    [UIView setAnimationCurve:UIViewAnimationCurveEaseOut];
    newView.frame = CGRectMake(0,0, newView.frame.size.width, newView.frame.size.height);
    oldView.frame = CGRectMake(oldView.frame.origin.x - 784, oldView.frame.origin.y, oldView.frame.size.width, oldView.frame.size.height);
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}

-(void)slideInCompleted:(NSString *)animationID finished:(NSNumber *)finished context:(void *)context {
    UIView *view = (UIView*)context;
    [view removeFromSuperview];
}

and to use it

menuController = [[MenuViewController alloc] init];
[self slideOutView:menuController.view toView:loginController.view];
[oldController release];

Remeber that you have alloced a UIViewController that you need to release when you are done useing it! In example i’m done with loginController and releasing it.