How to open, close left and right menues?

[ancienttottenham]

Hi.
At first, thank you for great job.

My Question.
I have a left and right menues.
There is a button in left menu, which pushing content segue to nav controller, which has 2 view controllers ( root View controller and connected to him view controller with push segue).
In rootVC both menues (left & right) works as needed, but when i tap on some button and pushing to 2nd VC, then the right button is disappearing in nav bar , and i lost right menu there ( I can open it ONLY when i swiping to left , but in my case I disablePanGesture in this indexPath).

How can i set back right button, and open right menu by tapping on it ?

Also ,please tell me how to open, close, enable or disable left and right menues programmatically, without changing Your code .
Because there is

• doSlideToSide
• doSlideToLeftSide
• doSlideOut:complete
• doSlideIn:complete

methods in your code (in SASlideMenuRootViewController.m), but these methods are private , and we can't use them without make them public ourself :)

Thank You.

[stefanoa]

What you are asking is not currently supported, I am not sure it is easy to do but I will check it.
About your second question, to intercept the sliding events and apply some logic there is the SASlideMenuDelegate protocol. There are methods to override for each of the sliding events:

@protocol SASlideMenuDelegate <NSObject>

@optional

-(void)slideMenuWillSlideToSide:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;
-(void)slideMenuDidSlideToSide:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;

-(void)slideMenuWillSlideIn:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;
-(void)slideMenuDidSlideIn:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;

-(void)slideMenuWillSlideOut:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;
-(void)slideMenuDidSlideOut:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;

-(void) slideMenuWillSlideToLeft:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;
-(void) slideMenuDidSlideToLeft:(UINavigationController*) selectedContent;

@end

I hope this helps

[ancienttottenham]

Yes, this delegate methods are helpful sometimes in some cases,
but there is a many times, when we need to open right (or left) menu programmatically.
E.g. when there is no navigation bar , accordingly there is no menu button.There is only map view , so pan gesture will not work to open menu. On the map view placed a button, and when user press on it, menu must be open.
So how to realize this ?

[stefanoa]

Ok, now I understand.
The only available option is to use the SASlideViewController method:

-(void)selectContentAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath scrollPosition:(UITableViewScrollPosition)scrollPosition;

The problem is that it is useful if you need to switch to a different content viewcontroller but if you only need to show the menu, currently there is no support for that.
I will have a look at it it should not be very difficult.

[stefanoa]

I have added two methods to the SASlideMenuViewController:

-(void) revealLeftMenu;
-(void) revealRightMenu;

The Static test uses revealLeftMenu, in the LightViewController I added a button to test it.
The Dynamic test uses revealRightMenu, in the GreenViewController if you tap the controller the right menu is revealed.

[ancienttottenham]

Yes, now it works. But only for left menu.
You have an issue with opening right menu by -(void) revealRightMenu;

In that function, you call
[self.slideMenuDataSource hasRightMenuForIndexPath:self.selectedIndexPath];

wich always return indexPath at (0,0), because in ExampleStatic VC you have
-(NSIndexPath*) selectedIndexPath
{
return [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0];
}

Furthermore , calling only [self.rootController doSlideToLeftSide] method not enough, because the rightMenu will not added while pan gesture state is not began and direction is not "to left" (or rightMenuButton is not tapped).
Accordingly , first you mast do this:
if (self.rootController.isRightMenuEnabled && self.rootController.rightMenu != nil)
{
[self.rootController addRightMenu];
}

before [self.rootController doSlideToLeftSide] ,
if I understand your code correctly :)

Here is an updated project.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/slhuy7xmt99rmea/SASlideMenu-master.zip

[stefanoa]

Good catch!!
The new version uses the addRightMenu method and I also changed the check for the existence of the rightMenu. I removed the call to hasRightMenuForIndexPath: because it is redundant, if the rightMenu is there and is enabled I will reveal it.

Thank You for the precise feedback.

[ancienttottenham]

Glad to help you :)