How to dismiss the current ViewController and go to another View in Swift

Question

I am new to Swift and I want to know how to dismiss the current view controller and go to another view.

My storyboard is like the following: MainMenuView -> GameViewController -> GameOverView. I want to dismiss the GameViewController to go to the GameOverView, not to the MainMenuView.

I use the following code in my MainMenuView:

@IBAction func StartButton(sender: UIButton) {
    let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)
    let nextViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("GameViewController") as! GameViewController
    self.presentViewController(nextViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)
    restGame()
}

In the GameViewController, I use this code, but it doesn't dismiss the GameViewController.

let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)
let nextViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("GameOverView") as! GameOverView
self.presentViewController(nextViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)

This is My GameOverView Code :

class GameOverView: UIViewController{
    // save the presenting ViewController
    var presentingViewController :UIViewController! = self.presentViewController

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

    @IBAction func ReplayButton(sender: UIButton) {
        restGame()
        didPressClose()
    }
    @IBAction func ReturnMainMenu(sender: UIButton) {
        Data.GameStarted = 1
        self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false) {
            // go back to MainMenuView as the eyes of the user
            self.presentingViewController.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil);
        }
       /* let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)
        let nextViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MainScene") as! MainScene
        self.presentViewController(nextViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)*/

    }
    func restGame(){
        Data.score = 0
        Data.GameHolder = 3
        Data.GameStarted = 1
        Data.PlayerLife = 3.0
        Data.BonusHolder = 30
        Data.BonusTimer = 0
    }
    func didPressClose()
    {
        self.self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion:nil)
    }
    override func shouldAutorotate() -> Bool {
        return false
    }

    deinit{
        print("GameOverView is being deInitialized.");

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
    }

    override func prefersStatusBarHidden() -> Bool {
        return true
    }


}

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

What you can do is let the GameOverView be presented, after all when you presenting it the GameViewController is below in the hierarchy, and then in your GameOverView run the following code to close both when you want to dismiss the GameOverView, like in the following way:

@IBAction func ReturnMainMenu(sender: UIButton) {
    // save the presenting ViewController
    var presentingViewController: UIViewController! = self.presentingViewController

    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false) {
          // go back to MainMenuView as the eyes of the user
          presentingViewController.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil)
    }
}

The above code need to be called when you want to dismiss the GameOverView.

I hope this help you.