Question

So I have a tabBarController as a modalview, and it shows up fine. As I click some of the tabs, the views are loading properly. I want to dismiss the modalView when I click on tabBarController.selectedIndex ==4

So I write in the viewDidLoad and also tried in the viewWillAppear of that view controller to dismissModalViewController and it does not work.

I tried

[self.parentViewController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

      // ... And also //

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Could someone point out why it does not work ?

Answer 1

All you have to do is pass a reference to the modally presented VC pointing on the VC that will present it modally.

Define a weak reference as a property in the UITabBarController subclass, and send a message to dismiss it when required.

For example using a property named mainViewController :

MySubclass *tbController = [[MySubclass ....];
tbController.mainViewController = self;
[self presentModalViewController:tbController animated:YES];

Then in MySubclass define

@property(assign) UIViewController *mainViewController;

and synthesize it, then when the tab you want gets selected :

[self.mainViewController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];