Passing of UITextField text from one view to another

Question

I defined a UITextField on my firstViewController as follow

// firstViewController.h
IBOutlet UITextField *PickUpAddress
@property (nonatomic, retain) UITextField *PickUpAddress;

//firstViewController.m
@synthesize PickUpAddress;

// Push secondView when the 'Done' keyboard button is pressed
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField {
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    if (textField == PickUpAddress) {
        SecondViewController *secondViewController= [[SecondViewController alloc]
                                                       initWithNibName:@"SecondViewController" 
                                                       bundle:nil];
        secondViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:secondViewController animated:YES];
        [secondViewController release];
    }

    return NO;
}

Then I tried to retrive it in my secondViewController during viewWillAppear

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    BookingViewController *bookingViewController = [[BookingViewController alloc] init];
    NSString *addressString = [[NSString alloc] init];
    addressString = bookingViewController.PickUpAddress.text;
    NSLog(@"addressString is %@", bookingViewController.PickUpAddress.text);
}

But it returns as NULL on my console. Why is that so? Thanks in advance :)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 27 '11 at 06:50

in secondViewController.h add

 NSString *text;

 @property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *text;

 -(void)setTextFromText:(NSString *)fromText;

in secondViewController.m add following

 - (void)setTextFromText:(NSString *)fromText
 {
     [text release]; 
     [fromText retain];
     text = fromText;
 }

in firstViewController.m before

[self.navigationController pushViewController:secondViewController animated:YES];

add

[secondViewContoller setTextFromText:PickUpAddress.text];

Now let me explain the code.

You are adding an NSString to second view , where we will store the text from the UITextField. Then, we've written a method, which will set that NSString from some other NSString. Before pushing secondViewController to navigationController, you're just calling that method to set our text from PickUpAddress.text. Hope that helped.

Your solution does work but why do we need to use a method to set the string? Where we could have just `@synthesize myString` and set the property as such, `secondViewController.myString = @"stringToSet";` May I know the differences between this approach to yours? I see `release` & `retain` being use and that confused me. — Gavin, Aug 27 '11 at 16:18
I think there is no difference between my approach and yours — , Aug 28 '11 at 10:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '11 at 06:49

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Problem is in your code. You are creating new object, bookingViewController, to retrieve the textField value. So it will obviously provide NULL. Rather you should use one unique object application wide to access the value.

answered Aug 27 '11 at 06:49

Darshan Prajapati

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