Dismiss Modalview after imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:

Question

I have a ViewController (VC1) that opens another ViewController (VC2) modally that is embedded in a NavigationController (NavC1). VC2 is used as a source selection view for the user to select different sources, such as the built-in photo library. When the user selects the photo library in VC2 I am opening Apple's imagePicker.

VC1 --(modal)--> NavC1 ----> VC2

In the imagePickerdidFinish I would like to close the before modally presented VC2. Actually this method looks as follows.

-(void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
    UIImage* image = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage];

    ...

    NSError* error;
    if([UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.5) writeToFile:path options:NSDataWritingFileProtectionComplete error:&error] == NO)
    {
        NSLog(@"Saving image to file failed with error %@",[error localizedDescription]);
    }

    picker.delegate = nil;
    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    ...
}

What I have tried so far:

• I have tried to dismiss it using the parent navigation controller
• I have stored a reference to VC2 in prepareForSegue: of VC1 and passed a delegate back to VC1 from VC2 when the imagePicker did finish. In this method I have tried to simply dimiss the modal view manually ([self.myModalView dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES])

Does anyone have a suggestion for me? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you are coming to VC2 by [self.navigationController PushViewController:VC2Object animated:YES]; then you need to pop it i.e [self.navigationController popViewController];

If you are coming to VC2 by [self.navigationController presentedViewController]; then you need to [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Therefore, check how you are loading VC2 viewController in memory.