On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Frederick C. Lee wrote: > Greetings: > I wish to preserve the state of an iPhone/iTouch application; which means > that I would like the application to continue deep down within a stock of > View Controllers at a particular view when I return to the application. > > Does this mean that I need to preserve the ID of a particular > viewController/position in the NSUserDefaults? For example, I store a > unique identifier/pathway of a target in NSUserDefaults then navigate back to > that position upon return to the application? > > > What is the recommended paradigm to handle this? > > Regards, > > Ric
Hi Frederick, I've been giving some thought to the same question lately and here's what I've come up with. For a UI that is heavy on drilling down a hierarchy of view controllers, I imagine the path from the application's root view controller to any other view controller as represented by an instance of NSIndexPath. So, for example, the index path 1.3.2 would represent going through the second VC from the root controller, then the fourth VC accessible from that, then the third VC accessible from that. (Recall that indices in an index paths are zero-based) So, one could have an index path ivar in the application delegate which is updated every time a given VC is pushed into, or popped from, the navigation stack. Naturally, that ivar is saved when the application terminates and read when the application starts up. Then, once it's read back in, it's just a matter of following the bread crumbs to the last visited view controller. Of course, one needs to make sure that this "automated" walk-through of the hierarchy has the same relevant effects as when the user did it, but not everything needs to be redone. For instance, animations that might happen in the intermediate view controllers need not be performed again, since the goal is to get back to the last visited view controller as quickly as possible. I'm very interested in other people's take on this issue, since I have no idea if my solution is the best or even the recommended way of achieving the desired result. Wagner_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
