This allows me to implement in-between views that act like menus in desktop apps, and then skip over those views as I pop the view off the stack that the user selected from the menu view. The look and feel is much better now, as the user doesn’t see the menu view ask I pop views.

Turns out if you implement the UINavigationBarDelegate in the CustomNavigationController, you can make use of the shouldPopItem method:

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CustomNavigationController.h :

#import

@interface CustomNavigationController : UINavigationController {

BOOL alertViewClicked;
BOOL regularPop;
}

@end

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CustomNavigationController.m :

#import “CustomNavigationController.h”
#import “SettingsTableController.h”

@implementation CustomNavigationController

- (BOOL)navigationBar:(UINavigationBar *)navigationBar shouldPopItem:(UINavigationItem *)item {

if (regularPop) {
regularPop = FALSE;
return YES;
}

if (alertViewClicked) {
alertViewClicked = FALSE;
return YES;
}

if ([self.topViewController isMemberOfClass:[SettingsTableViewController class]]) {
UIAlertView * exitAlert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@”Are you sure you want to quit?”
message:nil delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@”Cancel” otherButtonTitles:@”Yes”, nil] autorelease];

[exitAlert show];

return NO;

}
else {
regularPop = TRUE;
[self popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
return NO;
}
}

-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
if (buttonIndex == 0) {
//Cancel button
}

else if (buttonIndex == 1) {
//Yes button
alertViewClicked = TRUE;
[self popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

}
@end
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The weird logic with the “regularPop” bool is because for some reason just returning “YES” on shouldPopItem only pops the navbar, not the view associated with the navBar – for that to happen you have to directly call popViewControllerAnimated (which then calls shouldPopItem as part of its logic.)

here is reference:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UINavigationController_Class/Reference/Reference.html

so what could be another way of achieving this.