Question

When I touch cancel button in the third view, I want to go back to the first view directly. How can I do that?

This is the code.

// this part is in the first view.
SecondController *aSecondController = [[SecondController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *aNaviController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:aSecondController];
self.naviController = aNaviController;
[aNaviController release];
[aSecondController release];
[self.view addSubview:naviController.view];

// this part is in the second view.
ThirdController *thirdController = [[ThirdController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];             
[self.navigationController pushViewController:thirdView];
[thirdView release];

// this part is in the third view.
- (void)cancel {
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO]; // this only goes to the second view.
}

popToViewController, popToRootViewController only go to the second view also.

Answer 1

Set up the navigation controller in your app delegate. Make the first view controller the nav controller’s root controller instead of having the first view controller own the nav controller. Then you can use -popToRootViewController:animated: as the other answers have suggested.