Opening a link from a UITextView in a UIWebView in another ViewController

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Ok so the project that I'm working on has a twitter feed that I put into a table I put the main part of the tweet in a UITextView. I want it to be able to open links in the text in a UIWebView. I managed to intercept the open url call by using the following.

#import "MyApplication.h"
#import "haydnboardAppDelegate.h"

@implementation MyApplication
- (BOOL)openURL:(NSURL *)url
{
   return [self openURL:url forceOpenInSafari:NO];
}


-(BOOL)openURL: (NSURL *)url forceOpenInSafari:(BOOL)forceOpenInSafari
{

    if(forceOpenInSafari)
    {
        // We're overriding our app trying to open this URL, so we'll let UIApplication     federate this request back out
        //  through the normal channels. The return value states whether or not they were able to open the URL.
        return [super openURL:url];
    }

    //
    // Otherwise, we'll see if it is a request that we should let our app open.

    BOOL couldWeOpenUrl = NO;

    NSString* scheme = [url.scheme lowercaseString];
    if([scheme compare:@"http"] == NSOrderedSame
       || [scheme compare:@"https"] == NSOrderedSame)
    {
        // TODO - Here you might also want to check for other conditions where you do not want your app opening URLs (e.g.
        //  Facebook authentication requests, OAUTH requests, etc)

        // TODO - Update the cast below with the name of your AppDelegate
        // Let's call the method you wrote on your AppDelegate to actually open the BrowserViewController
        couldWeOpenUrl = [(haydnboardAppDelegate *)self.delegate openURL:url];
    }

    if(!couldWeOpenUrl)
    {
        return [super openURL:url];
    }
    else
    {
        return YES;
    }
}
@end

I changed my main.h file as well to:

return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, @"MyApplication", nil);

I tried to call the open url function in the code but it won't call the function at all it doesn't do anything when I click on the links in the TextView. What do I do to get it to call the function to change the view?

Edit: Managed to get the Function in my app delegate to run but when it tries to push the view controller nothing happens. I get the error viewController not in window hierarchy so I decided to change the function so that it calls a function in the viewController but still nothing happens but there is no error message when pushViewController is called in the viewController. I found that this is because the navigationController = nil how do I fix this?

Opening a link from a UITextView in a UIWebView in another ViewController

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