Tutorial Request - Multi-View Navigation

[Wolfsnap]

Hello all!

Let me start by saying I am an absolute noob with xcode, but it's slowly sinking in. I'm developing an app for our salespeople to use for training people in the use of our equipment controls. These controls consist of a large control panel (with several operation buttons) and a touch screen interface for monitoring the system.

The app I'm try to create consists of a constant main screen (a graphic of the control panel itself with the operational buttons) and a subView for the touchscreen interface. I need both the main screen buttons (which need to be constant regardless of what the touch screen is displaying) as well as the buttons on the touch screen (20 or so different screens, each with their own group of buttons) to be able to control navigation of the touch screen.

I've gone through several tutorials that cover changing and positioning a subView in the rootView, but all of the navigation is in the root view. I ned o be able to change the subView screens via buttons on that subView.

I hope this makes sense, and thanks in advance for any help!

Wolf

[HappyEvil]

Try this method of view swapping.

This lets you have multiple pages with any amount of buttons that point to pages in any other position. Additionally, because it's controlled by the overall view manager, you can easily have cross page variables and add/remove pages in ANY position without it having much overall effect on the program.

Individual pages can be self managed or managed in the global manager for whatever you chose. Buttons placed on the page can perform actions within the page alone or they can be used to reach any page in the program.

I think this is what you're looking for, if it isn't then I'm not sure.

In this method you have no primary view, you have a view controller and a bunch of pages. You're primary view is whichever page you chose to load up first.

Be aware this is a code only approach but it does work with the interface builder as well with some minor tweaking (I've tried it).