UIWebview is off loading url - xcode

so I have an odd approach for loading bookmarks in a UIWebView in a browser app I am making. For the didSelectRowAtIndexPath in the Bookmarks UITableView, I have this code:
NSUserDefaults *lString = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
[lString setValue:[bookmarks objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] forKey:#"loString"];
and then I have a modal for the selected object in the UITableView to another view controller which loads a UIWebView based on this code. So the problem is that the first time I click the table view object, the UIWebview is blank, then the second time it shows the URL that I clicked the first time. PLEASE HELP!
Thanks,
Michael
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSUserDefaults *lString = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
loadString = [lString valueForKey:#"loString"];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:loadString];
NSURLRequest *togo = [[NSURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest: togo];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}

The -loadRequest method is asynchronous, meaning that it starts the load in another thread while your main thread's execution continues.
So the first time it's called, it shows a blank screen (because the first request is still running in another thread). The second time, because the first request has now finished, it shows that (while the second request runs in another thread). And so on.
To refresh the screen with the URL contents as soon as they load, you need to implement the -webViewDidFinishLoad method of your UIWebViewDelegate. In that method, you know the URL has finished loading, so if you refresh the web view there it should show the contents.

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In the iPhone version, I use the navigation controller to step backwards to the app. This should work just fine in the iPad too, but while the navigation controller does appear, it doesnt respond. In fact its invisible to any interaction, if theres a map behind the navigation controller and you double click back, you just zoom on the map where you clicked.
So I'm including a button in the iPad view which should do the same thing. On press I call a
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When I call this I get the EXC_BAD_ACCESS. I've gone in to the spooky zombie mode which gives me this
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Ive determined that 0x83bb9f0 is the presenting layers self.view.layer
I'm using ARC to handle my allocations and deallocs.
THE QUESTION IS: How can I prevent self.view.layer from deallocing? or how can I allocate it again at the proper time so that I dont get this error?
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Edit: Heres where the main page (landing page) is created, and the nav controller
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landingPage *LandingPage = [[landingPage alloc] initWithNibName:#"landingPage" bundle:nil];
self.navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:LandingPage];
self.window.rootViewController = self.navigationController;
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[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
Then here is where the inner view is called:
mapView *MapView = nil;
MapView =[[mapView alloc] initWithNibName:#"mapView" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:MapView animated:YES];
So I got it!
The XIBs I was creating for the iPad version were windows instead of views. I recreated all of these as views and rigged it up and it worked just fine!

How do you set localstorage so it persist across program runs

I have localstorage for a webview in a program working but it's always wiped out at the beginning of the next program run. I checked the file and it does persist after a program run but at the beginning of the next one, it wipes it out.
Here's my code:
- (void)awakeFromNib {
WebPreferences *prefs = [webView preferences];
[prefs _setLocalStorageDatabasePath:#"~/Library/Application Support/MyApp"];
[prefs setDatabasesEnabled:YES];
[prefs setLocalStorageEnabled:YES];
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}
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WebPreferences Class Reference
I'm sure you know the risks of using private APIs.
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[NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES];
[webview setUIDelegate: self];
[webview setResourceLoadDelegate: self];
[webview setPolicyDelegate:self];
[webview setFrameLoadDelegate:self];
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[NSURL fileURLWithPath:
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Regards
Sandy
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what you want to do is put a call to
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which initiates all of the calls that you wanted.
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What I'm actually trying to do is put a WebKitView into a ScreenSaver (which inherits NSView). I'm totally new to MacOS X and Cocoa (but I'm very familiar with Objective-C and used some parts of GNUStep). Do I need some laying out? I want to show only one control in the whole NSView.
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webView = [[WebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[self addSubview:webView];
If you're wondering what rectangle you should pass as the WebView's frame, read the View Programming Guide. Also, don't forget to release the webView in dealloc (or autorelease it in initWithFrame:isPreview:).
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}
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You can also not worry too much about your animation interval by calling
[self stopAnimation];
at the end of your animateOneFrame method.

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