segue from UITableViewController doesn't work as push, only as modal

Question

I have this view stack:

UIViewController --> (Modal segue) --> 
UITabBarController --> (relationship) --> 
UINavigationController --> (relationship) --> 
UITableViewController --> (segue) --> UIViewController

Here is my segue code in the UITableViewController:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    NSLog(@"selected row...");
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"showVmail" sender:self];
    NSLog(@"done segue");
}

- (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"showVmail"]) {
        NSLog(@"Got segue request...");
        NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

        [segue.destinationViewController setMyVmail: [self.vmails objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];

    }
}

When I click on an item in the table view controller, I see these log messages:

selected row...
Got segue request...
Setting myVmail... // from the new view controller
done segue

And it doesn't move onto my new view controller. If I change to a Modal, segue it works, but of course there is no Back button. As far as I can see, Ive done everything correctly. Ive read many a response on stack overflow, with the same issue, and their resolution is to put in the UINavigationController. Ive already done this.

Any thoughts would be muchly appreciated!

Answer 1

I tried the suggestion seen else where that you should go back to simple cases. I changed the UINavigationController in the storyboard to point to a basic UIViewController and then for that to have a button that segued to another UIViewController. When I ran it, I still got my UITableViewController!

That is when I remembered that I was programatically filling in the objects in the UITabBarController, and that I wasn't invoking the UINavigationController, but skipping that and invoking the UITableViewController! So in fact, I really was having the same issue as everyone else, missing the UINavigationController !

Change my program in to link the UINavigationController instead of the UITableViewController and all is now working as expected.