get UIView's viewcontroller (iphone)

Question

I've done this to get the view:

[self.superview viewWithTag:10]

But how can I get that view's viewcontroller. Just like you can get the the viewcontroller's view I want to go the other way so I can send a message (call a method) to that viewcontroller. eg:

[[self.superview viewWithTag:10].viewController doSomething];

(obviously that not actual code but I want something like that)

duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1340434/get-to-uiviewcontroller-from-uiview-on-iphone , http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367348/how-to-get-a-uiviewcontroller-from-a-uiview-via-code — user102008, Jan 22 '11 at 21:41

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '11 at 21:45

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You can use the -nextResponder method to do it:

[(YourUIViewController *)[[self.superview viewWithTag:10] nextResponder] doSomething];

According to http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIResponder_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIResponder/nextResponder , "UIView implements this method by returning the UIViewController object that manages it (if it has one) or its superview (if it doesn’t)"

answered Jan 22 '11 at 21:45

user102008

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Is it really clean and safe to get the view's viewcontroller by calling this method ? – booker Apr 28 '12 at 17:30
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it's just [theView nextResponder]; – Fattie Apr 14 '14 at 13:09

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 06:37

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you can use

[yourUIView.window.rootViewController doSomething]

answered Oct 18 '12 at 06:37

itecheck

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some further details answers on that ... http://stackoverflow.com/a/2596519/294884 may help someone – Fattie Apr 14 '14 at 14:12

get UIView's viewcontroller (iphone)

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