Popover Dismissal

[mdschm2]

Hello everyone, I know there are dozens of threads on accomplishing this, but I've tried them all and must be overlooking something stupid.

I have two ViewControllers, a main view controller and a popover view controller. The main controller is the delegate to the popover, and the popover view controller manages the content of the popover. I have it setup so that if a User selects a row in a table displayed in the popover, a method is called in the main controller. I know this portion is working fine. Now I need to determine what to call in order to dismiss the popover once the user selects an item in the table.

This is the Popover Code in the Main Controller:

-(IBAction)popOverViewCall:(id)sender{
	PopOverViewController *myViewControllerForPopover = [[PopOverViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"PopOverView" bundle:nil ];
	UIPopoverController *popover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:myViewControllerForPopover];
	self.popoverController = popover;
	popoverController.delegate = self;
	
	[popover release];
	[myViewControllerForPopover release];
	
	CGPoint point = {20,45}; // Place to put on screen
	CGSize size = {120,45}; // A content range (see apple docs)
	[popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(point.x, point.y, size.width, size.height)
									   inView:self.view permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
}

-(void) dismissPopover {
	NSLog(@"Inside Dismiss Method");
	[popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:NO];
}

And this is the portion of the Popover View controller that executes after the user touches a row in the table:

	MainViewController *myController = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
	[myController dismissPopover];

The dismissPopover method is called when the user clicks, but I can't get the darn popover to go away.

Any hints?

[BrianSlick]

MainViewController *myController = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
[myController dismissPopover];

This creates a new view controller. You want a reference to your existing view controller.

[mdschm2]

Originally Posted by BrianSlick

MainViewController *myController = [[MainViewController alloc] init];
[myController dismissPopover];

This creates a new view controller. You want a reference to your existing view controller.

Thanks BrianSlick, so I'm effectively creating a new instance of the View Controller and trying to release a popover that hasn't been created yet. Could you elaborate on how I could reference the already created View Controller?

[BrianSlick]

You could create a delegate property in your detail view controller. Assign the main view controller to that, so you can talk to it from the detail view controller.