How to get instance of ECSlidingViewController in another storyboard?

Question

Little Background :- I have two storyboards in my project (one with autolayout and one without autolayout). 'Main' storyboard contains ECSlidingViewController where I set topviewcontroller as mentioned on the ECSliding github page like below:-

My Code:-

 -(void)GoToNewStoryBoard
{
    UIStoryboard *storyboardWithAutolayout = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"AutolayoutBoard" bundle:nil];

    self.slidingViewController.topViewController = [storyboardWithAutolayout instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ViewControllerinNewStoryBoard"];
}

-(void)someMethodInNewViewController
{
    ECSlidingViewController *sliding_viewController = (ECSlidingViewController*)[self.navigationController visibleViewController];
    if([sliding_viewController isKindOfClass:[ECSlidingViewController class]])
    {
        MenuViewController *menu = (MenuViewController *)sliding_viewController.underLeftViewController;
        NSString *windowType = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] valueForKeyPath:@"menuWindowType"];
        if([windowType isEqualToString:@"Push_PaymentPage"])
        {
            [menu pushToViewController];
        }
    }
}



-(void)pushToViewControllerInNewStoryBoard
{
    self.slidingViewController.topViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"NewVCNav"];

    [self.slidingViewController resetTopViewAnimated:YES];    
}

Problem:-

How do I get the instance of ECSlidingViewController in View controller class in new storyboard as [self.navigationController visibleViewController] gives me instance of UIViewController class instead of ECSlidingViewController.

Answer 1

You need to create the object into AppDelegate.m file.

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

     UIStoryboard *storyboardWithAutolayout = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"AutolayoutBoard" bundle:nil];
     self.slidingViewController = = (ECSlidingViewController*)[mainStoryboard
                                                 instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: @"ECSlidingVctrID"];
     self.slidingViewController.topViewController = [storyboardWithAutolayout instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ViewControllerinNewStoryBoard"];
 return YES;
}

Create one more method into the AppDelegate.m file.

-(void)changeViewControllerIntoSlider:(UIViewController*)vc{
     self.slidingViewController.topViewController = [storyboardWithAutolayout instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ViewControllerinNewStoryBoard"];
}

Now you can access those method and object of ECSlidingViewController.

Import AppDelegate file into your controller.

#import "AppDelegate.h"

Then Access appDelegate Object. AppDelegate appDel = (AppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];

[appDel slidingViewController]//Now you got the reference of slider you can do any thing.

Then Access appDelegate method.

AppDelegate appDel = (AppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[appDel changeViewControllerIntoSlider:"Your view controller according storyboard"]

Answer 2

Instead of [self.navigationController visibleViewController] i used self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController as follows:-

-(void)someMethodInNewViewController
{ 
    MenuViewController *menu = (MenuViewController*) self.slidingViewController.underLeftViewController;

    [menu pushToAcceptedMember];
}

This gave me the ECSlidingViewController instance.