UINavigationController root view (iOS)

Question

[PersonListNav pushViewController:plist animated:FALSE];Hi there! :) Googling this has returned no luck...

In short, I have UINavigationController (Named PersonListNav) which is instantiated inside of my main xib...

I also have a custom view controller named plist.

I call:

[PersonListNav pushViewController:plist animated:FALSE];

In my app delegate's didFinishLauchingWithOptions method.

It works fine! Except for one thing... There is a back button entitled "Root View Controller". So I thought "Okay, IB must be pushing its own empty view for me, all I need to do is pop that first..."

I tried the following code:

[PersonListNav popViewControllerAnimated:FALSE];
[PersonListNav pushViewController:plist animated:FALSE];

To find that the same exact thing was happening.

As a final test, I tried reversing the two calls!

[PersonListNav pushViewController:plist animated:FALSE];
[PersonListNav popViewControllerAnimated:FALSE];

THAT works as I would expect -- the plist view controller never shows up -- This "Root View Controller" is the currently displayed view.

So, that is my dilemma, it would appear that I cannot pop this Root View Controller off of my stack, to replace it with something else! How would you go about programmatically making plist the root controller?

Thankyou!

Answer 1

In your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions When you init PersonListNav

Do the following

//set root view controller to plist controller
PersonListNav *nav = [PersonListNav initWithRootViewController:plist];
self.window.rootViewController = nav;

Answer 2

In your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions you are creating your navigationController with the rootViewController but you can just create that with your custom view controller and you will never need the rootViewController. Are you using the default code it sets up for you?