使用Storyboard作为子视图？

Question

I am creating a project in which I'm creating my own custom navigation system by animating subviews on and off screen. One of these subviews is to have a navigation controller, and many other elements that are far easier (in this case) to create with storyboards. I have tried adding a storyboard as a subView with the following code (with little luck).

MainSV = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"MainSubView"];

[self.view addSubview:MainSV];

I am receiving the following warning.

Incompatible pointer types sending 'UIStoryboard *__strong' to parameter of type UIView*'

Now I'm not arguing that the above code should be working or anything because I understand the error, so what I'm asking is, how can I through this method or any other, add a storyboard as a subview of my UIView ? Can anyone point me in the right direction on this one?

Answer 1

You will need to use the containment view controller API, which is only available in iOS 5:

[self addChildViewController:mainSV];
[self.view addSubview:mainSV.view];

You can read the gotchas etc. in the documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html