Passing Object Between View Controllers in Objective C

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I have a very simple iPhone view based application I need help on. It's a view based application with a nav. bar in the footer that switches between 4 view controllers.

What I need to do is pass a UILabel value from view 2 to view 4. The UILabel field is a value calculated in view 2, but I want it to appear in view 4 (if 5+5=10, I want the 10 to appear in view controller 4, not view controller 2).

How do I go about doing this? Does anyone have any sample code I can review? I've searched awhile in Apple's docs and online and haven't found anything helpful yet. Keep in mind I'm a real newb. when it comes to development. I'm just starting to learn!

Thanks in advance.

Dinah · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-14 19:01:23Z

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There are a few ways. I would probably just have a variable created in the application delegate's interface and just change it and access it there.

NSObject *myVariableFromDelegate = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] myVariable];

[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] setMyVariable:10];

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Gobra · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-14 18:58:27Z

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Take a look at NSNotificationCenter. You can send a messages and handle them anywhere in the app, best solution in most similar cases.

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Dennis Munsie Over a year ago

Notifications wouldn't work in this case if while changing the value in view 2 that view 4 didn't exist yet.

Dennis Munsie Over a year ago

I should clarify my comment here -- Notifications alone wouldn't work. You still need someplace for the data to live in the case where a view doesn't exist. You can use Notifications to signal a change in that data, however.

Dennis Munsie · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-21 14:25:14Z

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The application delegate might work for you, but if you are going to have a lot of values to keep track of, you are probably better off implementing a separate class for your data. Otherwise it will get unwieldy quick.

When you load a new view, you pass off a pointer to the data cass to that view controller so that the current values can be pulled out and put into the correct fields. In addition, you could use register for notifications in the view controller to catch any changes that other views make. Just make sure you de-register the notification when the view unloads, and you should be good.

answered Jul 21, 2010 at 14:25

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