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bitmoe
bitmoe

Reputation: 391

Set up value of UITextField before loading view

Say I have a class1 and it has a view with a UITextField and a save button that saves the text of the field in an array. Now I also have a class2. In this class2, I want to load the class1 view with the tap of a button. However, I went to set the value of the UITextField before I show this view, so that when class1 appears the UITextField already has a string in it and is editable with a tap. Is this possible?

Edit: Only class2 knows what the textfield value will be

Edit: I tried this 

    [newInkView setInkTextField:[appDelegate.inks objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
    NSLog([appDelegate.inks objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]);
    [self.view addSubview:newInkView.view];
    [self presentModalViewController:newInkView animated:YES];

but this wasn't able to set the text field value. The NSLog did display some value though

Upvotes: 2

Views: 274

Answers (2)

Hot Licks
Hot Licks

Reputation: 47759

Why not set a property of your view controller with the value and have the VC copy the value to the text field in viewWillAppear??

Upvotes: 0

Matt S.
Matt S.

Reputation: 13773

To get the text sent from the class you can do something like this in class1:

-(void)setTextString:(NSString*)value
{
yourField.text = value;
}

As long as you call it before you show the view it'll be there when the view is loaded, granted you have an instance of class1 in class2.

Edit:

This was fixed by using NSUserDefaults to save the string before the view was loaded and load it when it was loaded.

Upvotes: 1

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