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

I had to do a similar thing recently and based my solution on Michaels answer. In my case I had to remove two View Controllers from the Navigation Stack and then add a new View Controller on. Calling

[controllers removeLastObject];

twice, worked fine in my case.

UINavigationController *navController = self.navigationController;

// retain ourselves so that the controller will still exist once it's popped off
[[self retain] autorelease];

searchViewController = [[SearchViewController alloc] init];    
NSMutableArray *controllers = [[self.navigationController.viewControllers mutableCopy] autorelease];

[controllers removeLastObject];
// In my case I want to go up two, then push one..
[controllers removeLastObject];
navController.viewControllers = controllers;

NSLog(@"controllers: %@",controllers);
controllers = nil;

[navController pushViewController:searchViewController animated: NO];