Question

I’m creating universal app with MonoTouch. When running on iPad I use UISplitViewController and build multi level menu in master view (on the left side) with MonoTouch.Dialog.

Problem is, that when I touch first root element it opens new view which covers whole screen instead of being inside master split view.

Question is, how can I make so next root element opens inside same view as it’s parent?

All the examples I could find usually has one level menu on the master view so when you touch it displays something on the detail view.

Hope this makes sense.

Answer 1

Let’s say you have an UISplitViewController and your CustomViewController.

UISplitViewController split = ...;
CustomViewController controller = ...;

If you want to push the new controller on top of the current (master) one then use:

var root = new RootElement ();
var dvc = new DialogViewController (UITableViewStyle.Plain, root, true);
dvc.ActivateController (controller);

If you want to show the new controller in the details (right) section then use something like:

UISplitViewController split = ...;
var about = new StringElement ("About");
about.Tapped += delegate {
    split.ViewControllers = new UIViewController [] {
        split.ViewControllers [0],
        controller
    };
};