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ryryan
ryryan

Reputation: 3926

iOS Split View - Load XIB

I am new to making iOS apps. I want to make a Split View app so I can have topics on the left and the content on the right.

I want to be able to pull the xib file and display it on the right. How can I do this?

I have a basic one working where it changes image, but not views. I want to display the xib file relating to the selected one in the array. Any tutorial to show me how to do this would be great.

Here is the video I watched.

P.S I am new to this app development. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1134

Answers (2)

Caleb
Caleb

Reputation: 125037

  1. A split view controller manages two view controllers.

  2. When you create a view controller, you can specify the .xib file from which it should load its view.

  3. It follows, then, that when the user taps on a topic, your code can create a corresponding view controller (see UIViewController's -initWithNibName:bundle: method) and set that view controller as the split view controller's detail view controller.

  4. It's possible to have an existing view controller load a new view from a .xib using NSBundle's -loadNibNamed:bundle:owner: method, but that's usually more work with no real advantage over replacing the entire view controller.

Upvotes: 2

ebany
ebany

Reputation: 306

As far as I remember, you should have access from your viewController to the property splitViewController, on which you can change the property "viewControllers" to any array containing the rootViewController at index 0 and the detailViewController (set to your new detailViewController) at index 1.

If you don't want to have sveral controller for your views, I remember having used NSBundle methods to load a nib file and assign it to a controller. I believe this is another possibility but you have to test it.

Upvotes: 0

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