MGSplitViewController change detail view controller

Question

Using MGSplitViewController, how do I change the detail view controller? There's a property declared:

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIViewController *detailViewController; // convenience.

doing splitVC.detailViewController = myVC; has not effect. Instead I have to do splitVC.viewControllers = @[masterVC, myVC]; . It works, but is this the right way?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You are doing it right. From UISplitViewController Reference:

The split view controller has no significant interface of its own . Its job is to manage the presentation of its two child view controllers and transitions between different orientations.

also:

You must assign two view controllers to a split view controller. Usually you configure these view controllers in a storyboard; if you create a split view controller programmatically, you assign them using the viewControllers property .

Answer 2

When using MGSplitViewController , a way to set the detailViewController without resetting everything (which seems very inefficient) is to set the detailViewController and then call layoutSubviews

splitViewController.detailViewController = myVC;
[splitViewController layoutSubviews];

This avoids the wasteful overhead of removing the master viewcontroller's view and then resetting it.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

No it isn't the right way,instead allocate your master and detail viewcontroller in navigationcontroller like UINavigationController *nav1 = [UINavigationController alloc]initwithrootviewcontroller:masterviewcontroller]; likewise nav2 for detail.Then write

splitViewController = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
splitViewController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:nav1,nav2, nil];
splitViewController.delegate = detailViewController;

Thats it. Hope that helps.