NavigationController Array Advantages

[appcody]

Hi,

I have been reading a lot through the internet, and found out that when you use arrays and such in a navigation controller, in the long run it will save time etc. I have always been using the navigation controller and different views and linked them together like this.

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "View1.h"
#import "View2.h"
#import "View3.h"

@interface RootViewController : UITableViewController {
	
View1 *v1;
View2 *v2;
View3 *v3;


}


@property(nonatomic,retain) View1 *v1;
@property(nonatomic,retain) View2 *v2;
@property(nonatomic,retain) View3 *v3

@end

and then in my .m file:

#import "RootViewController.h"


@implementation RootViewController


@synthesize v1;
@synthesize v2;
@synthesize v3;

#pragma mark -
#pragma mark View lifecycle


- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
self.title = @"Home";
    // Uncomment the following line to display an Edit button in the navigation bar for this view controller.
    // self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = self.editButtonItem;
}



#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Table view data source

// Customize the number of sections in the table view.
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return 1;
}


// Customize the number of rows in the table view.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return 3;
}


// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"Cell";
    
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    
	if(indexPath.row == 0) {
 		[cell setText:@"About"];
 	}
etc.
etc.
	
    return cell;
}


...


#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Table view delegate

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
   
	if (indexPath.row == 0) {
		
		if(self.v1 == nil) {
			View1 *myview =
			[[About alloc] initWithNibName:@"About" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
			self.v1 = myview;
			[myview release];	
		}
		[self.navigationController pushViewController:self.v1 animated:YES];
	}	
etc.
etc.
	}	
	
}

...

@end

This just gets really tiring really fast. My question is: What are the advantages of doing it a different way? And how many different ways are there even, that would be suitable?

Thanks in advance,

[BrianSlick]

This is an extremely poorly-worded question. What arrays are you talking about? You have shown 1 technique; what are you comparing it to?

And it is highly misleading to name a view controller as a view. It's a view controller; name it as a view controller. And don't abbreviate variable names like that. You aren't doing anybody, particularly yourself, any favors by doing that.