Question

My situation is as follows: My class SettingsViewController is a subclass of UINavigationController. That class contains the logic of its rootViewController. For example, it acts as the delegate and data source for two table views in that root view controller.

I have no problem setting this up programmatically. In the initializer of SettingsViewController, I can create an additional UIViewController to serve as the root view controller, position the table views in its view, and set their delegates and data sources to self.

But I want to load that root view via a Nib. The problem is, I do not know how to connect that Nib with my SettingsViewController, how to set the delegates and data sources. The SettingsViewController is not accessible from within the Nib. ‘File Owner’ represents the root view controller, not the SettingsViewController.

How do I access my UINavigationController subclass from within my root view controllers Nib?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

you can declare a view inside your nib and set that of class SettingsViewController (if its a view).

or drag a view controller in IB and set this of class type SettingsViewController

//EDIT: so you want to present a view like MFMailComposerViewController. I also have a MessageViewController in my App which does nearly the same:

MessageViewController *mView = [[MessageViewController alloc]initWithNibName:@"MessageView" bundle:nil];
mView.navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:mView];
[masterView presentModalViewController:mView.navController animated:YES];
[mView release];

notice that navController is a UINavigationController which is connected in IB to a navigation controller.