How can I call the ViewDidAppear only one time?

Question

When the user start the app I want it show the stockholm.xib and It does here:

-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];

    NSUserDefaults *startPage =[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
    NSString *page =[startPage stringForKey:@"page"];
    NSLog(page);

    if(page==nil)
    {
        //Do nothing

    }
    else if ([page isEqualToString:@"Default"])
    {
        //Do nothing
    }

    else if ([page isEqualToString:@"Stockholm"])
    {
        NSLog(@"going to Stockholm");
        Stockholm *Start =[[Stockholm alloc]initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
        [self presentModalViewController:Start animated:YES];


    }
    else {
        NSLog(@"HAHA");

}

but when user closes the stockholm.xib using:

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

after the animation is done, the app crashes. and the reason is, I guess, viewDidAppear calls twice and therefore it is trying to open the recently closed xib file.

now, how Can I call the view did appear only once? so that when the user comes back from Stockholm the viewDidAppear wont be called? any other solution?

thanx :)

Answer 1

You can try moving all that functionality in the viewDidLoad: method instead of the viewDidAppear. That one only fires once. Unless there is a reason for you not to...?

EDIT: more code to show what i mean in the comment

in the .h file:

BOOL firstTime;

in the .m file:

-(void)viewDidLoad {
   NSLog(@"viewDidLoad actually fired");
   //...
   firstTime = YES;
}
-(void)viewDidAppear {
   //...
   if(firstTime){
      //show it
      firstTime = NO;
   }
}

Answer 2

You can use GCD, too, if your class has a field such as:

@interface MyClass {
    dispatch_once_t once;
}

@end

@interface MyClass {
    - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
        dispatch_once(&once, ^{
            // do business
        });
    }
@end

Answer 3

You can add the property like BOOL loaded to your viewcontroller, set it to false in the viewdidload, and then make your viewDidAppear method like:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    if (!loaded) {
        //code
    } else {
        return;
    }
    loaded = YES;
}

That works for me.