Call a parent view controller (through a navigationcontroller)

Question

Currently I add a viewcontroller using pushViewController:animated: and now from within that new one would like to call a method inside my \"parent\"-controller

Answer 1

Not sure of your application logic, but you can always do this.

In your "child" controller, declare property of type parent-controller. So, in your .h file:

MySuperController *superController;
property(nonatomic, retain)MysuperController *superController;

and in your .m file:

@synthesize superController;

Before "pushing" your child controller:

MyChildController *child = ...
[child setSuperController:self];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:child animated:YES];

Then in your child controller you can simply access your super with

[this.superController myMethod:param];

I'm not going to advocate this way of coding, but it's a quick/cheap/dirty way to accomplish things.