childViewController is Apple's iOS Custom Container View Controller management style. Specifically the -addChildViewController: method facilitates Apple's iOS in order to combine multiple view controllers in a custom hierarchy (similar in concept to the UISplitViewController class)
Questions tagged [childviewcontroller]
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How to add a Container View programmatically
A Container View can be easily added into a storyboard through Interface Editor. When added, a Container View is of a placeholder view, an embed segue, and a (child) view controller.
However, I am not able to find a way to add a Container View…
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Add a child view controller's view to a subview of the parent view controller
I want to add a tableViewController as a child view controller of a containerViewController (shown below). According to Apple's View Controller Programming Guide I can achieve this by the following lines of code inside my containerViewController:
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Child View Controller to Rotate While Parent View Controller Does Not
What I am Trying to Do:
Parent View that is managed by Parent View Controller SHOULD NOT ROTATE.
Child View that is managed by Child View Controller SHOULD ROTATE to all orientations.
What I Have Tried:
ParentViewController
override func…
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Add child view controller to UINavigationController
I'm trying to add a child view controller to a UIViewController contained in a UINavigationController with this code:
- (void)buttonTapped:(id)sender
{
MyChildController *viewController = [self.storyboard…
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Child ViewController safe area inset doesn't update if partially offscreen
I am having difficulty with the Safe Area when sliding a child ViewController around on an iPhone X in landscape.
I have a root ViewController, and one of its views is moveable and contains an embedded child ViewController. The real app is a…
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How to pass data from child to parent view controller? in swift
I created an activity where when one of the text fields clicked it will pop up a child(alert dialog) with list of product but when i click one item on the list I can't display it on the text filed once the alert dismissed.
this is the parent…
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How to remove SFSafariViewController as a child view controller correctly?
I am using the technique provided by this SO answer to preload some URL in SFSafariViewController like this:
addChildViewController(svc)
svc.didMoveToParentViewController(self)
view.addSubview(svc.view)
And I try to remove the Safari View…
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In iOS, using storyboard, how to setup a view controller inside a container view?
I have created and drawn out a custom UIViewController called AutocompleteVC in my Main storyboard. AutocompleteVC will be used in several different places/storyboards and with different dimensions.
For example, in my Transit storyboard, shown…
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Adding Child View Controller view to dynamic UITableViewCell
How can I add a view of a child view controller to a custom UITableViewCell? I can add the view like this inside…
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iOS routing viewDidAppear to child view controllers?
I'm adding a child view controller to a parent view controller, and everything works as expected, except that child view controller isn't having its usual callbacks triggered. eg, things like viewWillAppear(animated) is never called. I looked into…
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Presenting a modal view controller without covering the current view on iPhone
I have been trying to add view container with leaving 20px space from the sides. But it seems not the proper way of doing it...
// ADD CHILD VIEW CONTROLLER
[parentViewController addChildViewController:childViewController];
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Container View Controllers - notify parent of action
Say I have a custom container view controller (MainViewController) where I do something like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
HomeViewController *homeVC = [[HomeViewController alloc]…
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How to create a container/child viewcontroller relationship in interface builder
To create from code a parent/child relationship between 2 view controllers basically it's just matter of doing something like:
[self addChildViewController:childViewController];
[self.view addSubview:childViewController.view];
where self is the…
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Child view controller should have parent view controller but actual parent is (UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency)
I have an app which has UITabbarController as the initial window(after logging-in i set it as rootViewController)
This tabbarController has 4 different tabs in it which are all UIViewControllers embedded in a UINavigationController.
In my…
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UISearchController hides results above the search bar
I am using a UISearchController inside a Container view in a UITableView. I am adding the search bar like this:
self.resultsTableController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:NSStringFromClass([ResultViewController…
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