Get to UIViewController from UIView?

Question

Is there a built-in way to get from a UIView to its UIViewController? I know you can get from UIViewController to its UIView

Answer 1

Don't forget that you can get access to the root view controller for the window that the view is a subview of. From there, if you are e.g. using a navigation view controller and want to push a new view onto it:

    [[[[self window] rootViewController] navigationController] pushViewController:newController animated:YES];

You will need to set up the rootViewController property of the window properly first, however. Do this when you first create the controller e.g. in your app delegate:

-(void) applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
    window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
    RootViewController *controller = [[YourRootViewController] alloc] init];
    [window setRootViewController: controller];
    navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootViewController];
    [controller release];
    [window addSubview:[[self navigationController] view]];
    [window makeKeyAndVisible];
}