How can I pop a view from a UINavigationController and replace it with another in one operation?

Question

I have an application where I need to remove one view from the stack of a UINavigationController and replace it with another. The situation is that the first view creates an

Answer 1

After much effort (and tweaking the code from Kevin), I finally figured out how to do this in the view controller that is being popped from the stack. The problem that I was having was that self.navigationController was returning nil after I removed the last object from the controllers array. I think it was due to this line in the documentation for UIViewController on the instance method navigationController "Only returns a navigation controller if the view controller is in its stack."

I think that once the current view controller is removed from the stack, its navigationController method will return nil.

Here is the adjusted code that works:

UINavigationController *navController = self.navigationController;
MyEditViewController *mevc = [[MYEditViewController alloc] initWithGizmo: gizmo];

NSMutableArray *controllers = [[self.navigationController.viewControllers mutableCopy] autorelease];
[controllers removeLastObject];
navController.viewControllers = controllers;
[navController pushViewController:mevc animated: YES];