How to dismiss popovers in iOS 5?

Question

I have a PatientTableViewController in the master side of the iPad that has a button for Adding a new patient. It transitions to this NewPatientViewController via a popover segue.

In the NewPatientViewController I have a Done button that delegates back to the PatientTableViewController:

- (void)newPatientViewController:(NewPatientViewController *)sender withZipCode:(NSNumber *)zipCode andFirstName:(NSString *)firstName andLastName:(NSString *)lastName
{
    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
    [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    [sender dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
    [sender dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
}

None of the methods I tried above work. However, if I use a Modal segue, everything works fine. Wat?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

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Finally figure it out with the help of this post

Basically, you need to have a variable keep track of the segue (which you need to cast into a UIStoryboardPopoverSegue) and little more weirdness.

I wrote a blog post describing the solution in more detail.

edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

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answered Feb 13 '12 at 01:10

Flaviu

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '12 at 00:17

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Did you try dismissPopoverAnimated: on UIPopoverController class?

answered Feb 13 '12 at 00:17

colbadhombre

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Thanks man. I tried that but did not know on which property to call it. I finally stumbled on [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8225589/ios-create-an-popover-view-using-storyboard) which helped me figure it out. – Flaviu Feb 13 '12 at 01:07
I haven't worked with storyboards yet, so I was just shooting in the dark. – colbadhombre Feb 13 '12 at 16:03

How to dismiss popovers in iOS 5?

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