Moving swipe to delete into detail view

Hmm. Not quite sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?

I will use the diary app as an example. I have the list of diary entries on 'entryListViewController' and to remove one i currently swipe to delete. However on the 'edit' page of the diary app I would like a button at the bottom of the page to delete that entry?

Ah, that's a bit trickier. Adding the button is easy, but having it do something is the hard part. You'd need to set up a callback in the delegate protocol to delete the entry, and then immediately dismiss the edit view controller. Does that make sense?

Im not quite sure what you mean, which methods would i use or remove, using the diary app as an example?

Ah, right, sorry. Forgot we didn't use the delegate pattern in this case. Your code to delete would look something like:

-(void)deleteEntry {
    /*delete the entry*/
    /*save the context*/
    /*dismiss the view controller*/
}

Shouldn't be too hard. Let me know if you run into any issues.

Thank you! i will have a look now, is this still within 'entryListViewController' or the 'EntryViewController' where the button would be?

Yup – in the entry view controller.

I will try it now! one last thing, i've been trying to teach myself how to add a search bar and display controller, but most of the tutorials are for older iOS versions, has anything changed in iOS 7 that would deem these tutorials useless?

No, not really. iOS 8 changes some things, but the concepts you learn will still be relevant.

thanks again!

Hi Ash Furrow

-(void)deleteEntry {

CoreDataStack *coreDataStack = [CoreDataStack defaultStack]; DiaryEntry *entry = [self.fetchedResultsController objectAtIndexPath:indexPath];

//delete entry
[[coreDataStack managedObjectContext] deleteObject:entry];

//save context

[coreDataStack saveContext];

//dismiss view controller
[self dismissSelf];

}

also, what methods do i take out of the entryListViewController?

not sure why it formatted my comment that way, it won't change! hope you can still understand the method?

Interesting. That should be working. What's happening instead? Can you post a project that's not working so I can take a closer look?

Ash Furrow its working now! Thank you for your time

Anytime!