Question

I’m trying to use storyboard and get things working properly. I’ve added a a Container View to one of my existing views. When I try to add a reference to this in my view controller .h file (ctrl-drag), I get a IBOutlet UIView *containerView. How do I get a reference to the container view’s view controller instead? I need the container view controller so I can set it’s delegate to my view’s controller so they can “talk” to each other.

I have my story board setup as:

And its referenced in my .h file as:

Notice in the .h that is is a UIView, not my InstallViewController for the view. How do I add a reference to the view controller? I need to be able to set its delegate.

Answer 1

There is another solution by specifying an identifier for the embed segue(s) and retrieve the corresponding view controllers in method prepareForSegue:

The advantage of this way is that you needn’t rely on a specific order in which your child view controllers are added due to the fact that each child view controller is embedded via an unique segue identifier.

Update 2013-01-17 – Example

- (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue*)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    // -- Master View Controller
    if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:c_SegueIdEmbedMasterVC])
    {
        self.masterViewController = segue.destinationViewController;
        // ...
    }
    // -- Detail View Controller
    else if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:c_SegueIdEmbedDetailVC])
    {
        self.detailViewController = segue.destinationViewController;
        // ...
    }
}

c_SegueIdEmbedMasterVC & c_SegueIdEmbedDetailVC are constants with the corresponding ID of the segue IDs defined in the storyboard.