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Ramu Pasupuleti
Ramu Pasupuleti

Reputation: 886

facebook type left slide bar layout should appear in all view controllers

I have implemented Facebook type left Slide Bar layout in my first view of iphone app. Now, I want to implement this throughout all view controllers (screens) in application, means irrespective of the view the left slide bar should appear on clicking the menu button at the top in all views.

My app contains 25-30 viewcontrollers and my slide bar layout should appear in all views..

Can anyone suggest, how can I include above FB Layout in all views

Thanks in advance

Ramu

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2112

Answers (4)

ptf
ptf

Reputation: 3370

I had the same problem. I was using a facebook-style menu, and needed it in all view controllers.

You can use a Container Controller. A Container Controller can have the base layout, which I defined in a nib, containing a navigation bar and a bar button item to toggle the menu, and then add child view controllers and remove them as you need them. That way, you can throw whatever view controller you need to the container controller and it will display it.

You can also add gesture control to slide open/close the menu easily.

You will have to make the Container controller your self, it is not standard. I think it is better solution than inheritance, since if you use inheritance you can't make a for example UITableViewController, all your controllers will be of the type of yuor master class. Of course, you can fix this anyway with delegates.

It may sound a bit tricky, but see this tutorial which I used: http://www.cocoanetics.com/2012/04/containing-viewcontrollers/

It wasn't accutally that hard.

EDIT: You can just use a UINavigationController as well. Just set the base view controller to the view controller you want to display, and you can prevent it adding the back button etc to the nav bar by overriding the default methods. Make a UINavigationController as rootNavigationController. Might be simpler.

Upvotes: 3

Dipak Chaudhari
Dipak Chaudhari

Reputation: 655

You can make a SharedInstance for SideView class. I am doing same thing for iAD to show throught-out the application. Please see the the link of iAdSuite ,In which the BannerViewController is SharedInstance so they are easily used for all View Controller

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/iAdSuite/Listings/TabbedBanner_TabbedBanner_BannerViewController_m.html

Upvotes: 1

Martin Gjaldbaek
Martin Gjaldbaek

Reputation: 3015

I'd highly recommend using an open source solution that handles all the edge cases for you - it's both the easiest, most robust and most maintainable (since the community will keep it up to date fro you). ViewDeck seems to be the most popular solution though I have also had success with PPRevealSideViewController. They both provide a very robust implementation that would take a long time to do yourself (e.g. you can optionally enable swipe on the navigation bar or even content area to open the menu). Furthermore they separate the sliding logic and the revealed menu (which can be any view controller you like, but most likely a table view controller) out of your other view controllers. That way any viewcontroller can have a side menu without duplicating any code - separation of concern is great :)

Upvotes: 2

devluv
devluv

Reputation: 2017

Simple, The one view controller in which you have implemented the FB layout and is working. Make it the base class on top of UIViewController. And as for the rest of all the ViewControllers, inherit them from the MasterClass that you just created. Doing this will make the swipe gesture that brings forth the slide bar available to all of your 30 view controllers.

EDIT

Lets see, we have UIViewController, now first of all you create a UIViewController's subclass: say FBViewController ..In this FBViewController you implement the FBLayout such that the swipe and all is working ..on it ..test your app first using only this FBViewController as rootViewController and check all the functionalities.Once everything is working fine, grow on it. What I mean is this.

Say you are creating a Tabbed application, where all the three tabs are supposed to have the same FBLayout style. Then do these steps.

  1. Create FBViewController, it inherits from UIViewController (using UIViewController subclass template, also check the generate XIB button) also have an XIB for it FBViewController.XIB (fully implement FBLayout in it. This will be your base class)

  2. Then Create three more ViewController classes (FirstViewController, SecondViewController, ThirdViewController) again from the UIViewController subclass template, but for these three dont check the generate XIB button. these three will use the XIB of the base class FBViewController (If you are wondering how, then go to step 3 :))

  3. Go to header file of FirstViewController class you created, there you can see @interface FirstViewController: UIViewController replace it with @interface FirstViewController: FBViewController, but before it import FBViewController.h to the header file. Repeat the same for the Other two classes- SecondViewController, ThirdViewController. Since these three will inherit from FBViewController. In their viewDidLoad [super viewDidLoad] will load FBViewController and generate the view. after [super viewDidLoad]; line you can implement ur own methods.

  4. In the three classes just change the initWithNibName method to change the tab bar name and title.

  5. In appDelegate go to didFinishLaunching method and put these three view controller in a tabBarController, set the tabBarController as rootViewController.

And we are done. If your FBViewController is working fine. You will see that all the three classes behave the same way. Thanx to the power of Inheritance.

Cheers, play a bit, have fun.

Upvotes: 4

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