Question

I’m adding a subview to my primary iPad UIViewController, and within that subview I need to reference said view controller in order to play a video using that controller.

Can anyone help me out with the way that should be done, and possibly a code example?

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Ed

EDIT (A LITTLE BIT MORE INFO):

This subview is a view from a uiviewcontroller class that is designed for the iPhone. It’s a table that loads a video when a row is pressed. The movieplayer loads the video within the referenced viewcontroller (which is why I want to reference the iPad view controller from within the subview). The view is basically used within an iPad app in it’s same form.

Answer 1

You probably already have the main view living in a property of your application delegate (it is commonly assigned via the application’s .xib file, look in the app delegate’s applicationDidFinishLaunching: method, where it adds the main view as a subview to the window, something like:

[window addSubview:primaryController.view];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];

).

So anywhere in your app where you need to access the main view, you can do:

[(MyAppDelegateType*)([UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate).primaryController somePrimaryControllerMethod];

Edit: while this will work, I agree with Rob Napier that this isn’t the best way to do it, architecture-wise.