Question

This class is a subclass of UITabBarViewController.
In my init parent view controller file I have this:

UIBarButtonItem *button1 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] 
                                 initWithTitle:@"Button1" 
                                 style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered 
                                 target:self 
                                 action:@selector(button1:)];

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = button1;

[button1 release];

And the method:

-(IBAction)button1:(id)sender {  

if (self.nvc == nil) {
    ChildViewController *vc = [[ChildViewController alloc] init];   
    self.nvc = vc;
    [vc release];
}

[self presentModalViewController:self.nvc animated:YES];

I want to get an value from the parentviewcontroller in my childviewcontroller class, which also is a UITabBarViewController subclass.

How do I do this, I have tried several hours, and I only get a nil-reference.

The object I want to get(which is a property in the parent) is a NSString.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

There are a lot of ways to do this. The easiest would be to add a property to ChildViewController that points to your parent view controller. You could call it delegate. Then the method will look like:

-(IBAction)newbuilding:(id)sender {
    if (self.nvc == nil) {
        ChildViewController *vc = [[ChildViewController alloc] init];   
        vc.delegate = self;
        self.nvc = vc;
        [vc release];
    }
    [self presentModalViewController:self.nvc animated:YES];
}

Then from the ChildViewController instance you can access self.delegate.someProperty.

There are also ways to get the parent view controller without your own explicit reference (typically self.tabBarController, self.navigationController depending on context), but the above method is fool-proof, understandable and easy to debug.