Adding a UIWebView to an EAGLView

[headkaze]

I don't have much experience with UIKit so I apologise in advance but I have an OpenGL game where I want to add a UIWebView to overlay some scrollable instructions. I am using the latest OpenGL ES template which has a UIViewController which has it's view set to EAGLView.

What I have done is a create a WebView.xib and added a UIWebView along with a UIToolbar. The UIToolbar has a "Back" button which when pressed will remove the view.

I have connected the UIWebView and UIToolbar using IB and connected the button to a press event.

I have created a new class called WebView which subclasses UIView and which is connected to the xib File's Owner.

Now in my ViewController I instanciate the WebView class like so.

webView = [[WebView alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];

I have a method in WebView which should animate the view in

- (void)addWebPageToView:(UIView *) view
{
	NSLog(@"addWebPageToView");
	
	[UIView beginAnimations:Nil context:NULL];
	[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
	[UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView:view cache:YES];
	
	[view addSubview:self];
	
	[UIView commitAnimations];
}

To show it (from C++ code) I use the following method

void showInstructions(const string& fileName)
{
	MyAppDelegate *appDelegate = (MyAppDelegate *)[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
	MyViewController *viewController = [appDelegate viewController];
	WebView *webView = viewController.webView;
	[webPage createWebView:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:fileName.c_str()]];
	[webView addWebPageToView:viewController.view];
}

The EAGLView does spin around like it's animating correctly but the view is never shown.

[headkaze]

I had to load the xib manually using

[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"WebView" owner:self options:nil];

Then implement an initWithCoder method instead of initWithFrame

Also I had to rename my WebView class to MyWebView because it is an internal framework class.