NavigationController Right to Left in iOS
ios, iphone, uitableview, uiviewcontroller
Solution
Considering that you're essentially hacking into the navigation controller, in order to keep the behavior consistent, you need to hack it some more.
Popping a navigation controller releases it from the memory, so you would probably need another array or stack containing popped controllers (pushed controllers from the users perspective, because as far as I see it, you're popping whenever you need to push, and pushing whenever you need to pop). In that array/stack, you would keep the controllers you need to come back to, pushing them into the array/stack just before you pop them.
I'll assume that the mutable array exists somewhere you can access it at all times, and call it `otherNavigationController` for the sake of simplicity:
DetailedViewController *DVC = [[DetailedViewController alloc]initWithNibName:@"DetailedViewController" bundle:nil];
NSMutableArray *vcs = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:self.navigationController.viewControllers];
[vcs insertObject:DVC atIndex:[vcs count]-1];
[self.navigationController setViewControllers:vcs animated:NO];
[otherNavigationController addObject:self];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
As for the second part of your question, you would need to add custom back button because the default one wouldn't work for you. The custom button should on press push a view controller from the top of the aforementioned array/stack (pop it from the users perspective).
The code for the pop function would go something like this:
UIViewController *previousViewController = [otherNavigationController lastObject];
[otherNavigationController removeLastObject];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:previousViewController animated:YES];
Disclaimer: The code here is untried and untested and I'm not even sure this would work, but it should get you on your way. Good luck!
Problem
I am buiding a Right to Left navigation controller to support RTL Languages. After reading some posts in StackOverFlow Push ViewController from Right To Left with UINavigationController, I decided that this method is most suitable: ``` DetailedViewController *DVC = [[DetailedViewController alloc]initWithNibName:@"DetailedViewController" bundle:nil]; NSMutableArray *vcs = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:self.navigationController.viewControllers]; [vcs insertObject:DVC atIndex:[vcs count]-1]; [self.navigationController setViewControllers:vcs animated:NO]; [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; ``` This will create a detailed view controller and add it to the stack of view controllers just below the NavigationController. When popping the NavigationController, it will appear as if we are actually loading the DetailedViewController, neat, eh? Now I face two problems: 1- The Detailed View Controller no longer displays the return button. So I decided to add a new button to do this on its behalf. 2- I did not know how to return back to the NavigationController from the DetailedViewController. Any Ideas?