Question

I’m trying to acces the storyboard from code to be able to use this line:

DetailViewController *detail = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"detail"];

I use that in my mapview and listview, but want to use it somewhere else to.
The problem is that this view, is a subview of another view.

It’s set up as followed:

thisBigView is a view I added in the storyboard and it’s is ThisBigViewController
In storyboard I added another view to that view, let’s call it thisSmallView. The class is set to ThisSmallView.

ThisSmallView is a custom view where I generate buttons dynamically in on the view. These buttons call the following action:

-(void) radarEventClick:(UIButton *)sender{
    SingletonManager *sharedManager = [SingletonManager sharedManager];

    DetailViewController *detail = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"detail"]; // PROBLEM 1

    Event *a;
    for(int i = 0; i < [sharedManager.eventsManager count]; i++){
        if(sender.tag == ((Event*)([sharedManager.eventsManager objectAtIndex:i])).id_nr){
            a = [sharedManager.eventsManager objectAtIndex:i];
            break;
        }
    }

    [detail setEvent:a];

    [self.navigationController pushViewController:detail animated:YES];    // PROBLEM 2

}

This is code I’m using in my mapviewcontroller to respond to annotationdisclosure clicks, and want to use it here to, but I have 2 problems!

PROBLEM 1: Because thisSmallView is a subview of anotherview, it doesn’t have direct access to the storyboard and don’t know how to get that access.

PROBLEM 2: thisBigView is embed in a navigationcontroller, but again, I don’t know who to access thisBigView, so I can’t access the navigationcontroller.

(I think if I could solve problem 2, I would automatically be solving problem 1 to?)

— EDIT: what I tried —

DetailViewController *detail = [self.superview.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"detail"];   

But then I just get ‘property storyboard not found on object of type UIView*’

Answer 1

Add the subview as a property of the superview in interface builder (control-drag to the header file). Then add a UIViewController property to the subview. In the superview’s code then do

nameOfSubView.superViewPropertyName = self;