dismiss modalViewController from a view controller not working

[TheRekz]

So let me give an overview of the setup I have first. I have a UITabBarController with three tabs, each tab is a UINavigationController. In the third tab I have a UINavigationController with a rootViewController. I then was able to push another view controller to the UINavigationController, lets say that this view controller that is pushed is referred as 'Y'. In this Y view controller I am also capable of showing a modal view controller. So I did:

[self presentModalViewController:login animated: YES]

where login here is just another UIViewController. I can present the modal view controller just fine, and when I try to dismiss it I do

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

However, this does not dismiss the modalviewcontroller (I checked and this is actually called). So what is the solution to this?

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by TheRekz

So let me give an overview of the setup I have first. I have a UITabBarController with three tabs, each tab is a UINavigationController. In the third tab I have a UINavigationController with a rootViewController. I then was able to push another view controller to the UINavigationController, lets say that this view controller that is pushed is referred as 'Y'. In this Y view controller I am also capable of showing a modal view controller. So I did:

[self presentModalViewController:login animated: YES]

where login here is just another UIViewController. I can present the modal view controller just fine, and when I try to dismiss it I do

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

However, this does not dismiss the modalviewcontroller (I checked and this is actually called). So what is the solution to this?

A modal view controller does not dismiss itself. You have to send the dismiss call to the original view controller that you pushed the modal onto.

Inside the modal view controller, I believe that the parentViewController property will point to the view controller that "owns" the modal view controller. So, from code inside the modal, you should be able to use code like this:

[self.parentViewController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

[mavrik5150]

It could also be how you are presenting the modal view since you said you have a TabBar as well you may want to try:

[self.tabBarController presentModalViewController:login animated:YES];

If Duncan's method doesn't work you may want to try this. I have a TabBar app and this is how the Modal Views are presented and then the Modal Views can dismiss themselves (I just use the same code you did with the IBAction of a Close Button being pushed).

[Domele]

Actually Duncan, it does work. If you call dismiss on the modal view controller (the one that was presented), it will work. It's just proper to have the vc that presented it dismiss it as well.

[bartender]

You could add a button like this..

UIBarButtonItem *doneButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:@selector(dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:)];
    loginviewcontroller.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = doneButton;