UIWebView not loading until refresh button is pressed?

[Noise]

Not sure what my issue is here. When the view is loaded, it displays properly, but the UIWebView doesn't load. Until I hit the refresh button.

The app uses a few different views.This view should open and load a UIWebView when the view is opened. Instead, it just opens to the view, and the webview doesn't load. As soon as the refresh button is hit, the activity indicator starts spinning, the site loads, then it disappears; leaving the loaded site ready to use.

What can I use to call the load request as soon as the view is opened?

[simpsonaty]

have your loadRequest in the -(void)viewDidLoad method.

eg.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
	
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mydomain.com"]]];

[activityIndicator.hidden = NO];
[activityIndicator startAnimating];
	
}

[darylbowden]

edit: looks like simpsonaty beat me to it...

Originally Posted by Noise

Not sure what my issue is here. When the view is loaded, it displays properly, but the UIWebView doesn't load. Until I hit the refresh button.

The app uses a few different views.This view should open and load a UIWebView when the view is opened. Instead, it just opens to the view, and the webview doesn't load. As soon as the refresh button is hit, the activity indicator starts spinning, the site loads, then it disappears; leaving the loaded site ready to use.

What can I use to call the load request as soon as the view is opened?

I dunno exactly what you're trying to do, but I would use the [UIWebview loadRequest:] in the viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear function and see if that works. (you may have already done this, not certain...)

[Noise]

Thanks - adding it to the viewDidLoad solved it.

[Noise]

Ok - while it's now loading fine, the connection error isn't. At least - not for the initial load.

What can I do to get the error to show up if there's no connection on the initial page load?

[simpsonaty]

are you using

- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error {

/// show error

}

[Noise]

^Yes.

The Web Views are also declared as delegates for themselves.

The code works fine - however not for the initial load when the view is opened.

[simpsonaty]

the error should show itself correctly on the initial load. Here's a snippet of some code in mSwears (my company's app)

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
	
	[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.twitter.com/simpsonatyapps"]]];
	webView.delegate = self;
	webView.alpha = 0.4;
	
}

- (void)webViewDidStartLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
	
	webActivity.hidden = FALSE;
	[webActivity startAnimating];
	webView.alpha = 0.4;

}

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView {
	
	webActivity.hidden = TRUE;
	[webActivity stopAnimating];
	webView.alpha = 1;
}

- (void)webView:(UIWebView *)webView didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error {
	
	webActivity.hidden = TRUE;
	[webActivity stopAnimating];
	alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Load Failed" message:@"Twitter failed to load. You are either not connected to the internet, or the server stopped responding" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Dismiss" otherButtonTitles:nil];
	[alertView show];
	[alertView release];
		
}

this works for me