I have a view controller that's been added to a UITabBarController
. In this view controller I have a button that opens up a movie using MPMoviePlayerViewController
.
When I play the movie, the top navigation bar is still overlayed on top of the movie, effectively blocking out a portion of the screen.
When this view controller isn't inside a UITabBarController
, however, the movie plays fine.
Anyone know what's going on?
Figured it out. I guess things get wonky because
MPMoviePlayerViewController
has a method added as a category toUIViewController
calledpresentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:
. Normally you would call it like this in yourUIViewController
:But in this case, if you've added your view controller to a
UITabBarController
stack,self
is your view controller within the tab bar controller, and I guess this makes things screwy. The fix is to callpresentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:
with the parent view controller, which in my case, was anotherUIViewController
that was housingUITabBarController
. I simply referenced the parent view and added it to my view controller'sinit
method, then called something like[parentController presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:mp]
.Whew. Hope that helps someone.