Passing an image when taped on uicollectionview to a detail view controller in swift - image

Question

Ive been at this for a while but cant seem to crack it in swift
I want a user to be able to select an image in uicollectionView and for that image to appear in a detailed view controller, i can do this quite easily with a peice of text,
and i can do this when there is a static array of images preloaded. but i cant seem to get anywhere with a collectionview which is loaded with images from a camera.
I understand i need to use
override func performSegueWithIdentifier(identifier: String, sender: AnyObject?) {
}
and this function to isolated selected cell.
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
}
I do have these outlets
#IBOutlet weak var collectionView: UICollectionView!
var images = [UIImage]()
image picker stores all images to this array by
images.insert(newImage, atIndex: 0)
when the array would be passed to the detailviewcontroller, i understand that would have to be copied into another local array and then how would i get the current image that was highlighted to be shown first, perhaps using indexPath.Row
Regards

Answer 1

I'm not using segues, and actually I don't quite understand what your problem is, but I'll try to show you how it could be achieved.
First of all, you have an array with images, so I believe your image should be accessed as images[indexPath.row]
let's suppose that you already have UIViewController class with UIImageView in it.
if so, you can write something like that:
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let myVC = MyViewController()
myVC.imageView.image = images[indexPath.row]
self.presentViewController(myVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
for modal or
func collectionView(collectionView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
let myVC = MyViewController()
myVC.imageView.image = images[indexPath.row]
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(myVC, animated: true)
}
if you want to show it as navigational.
I believe that with segues it's basically the same but I think you have to use func prepareForSegue for, you know, preparing the segue (func performSegueWithIdentifier will just perform it). In prepareForSegue you should check identifier of your segue
if segue.identifier == "myIdentifier" {
//your code here
}
and if this identifier is right, put your commands to your myVC there.