How to swipe out of table view controller (not the cells) - iPhone

Question

I have a tab bar app. It has 5 tabs. I have the 3rd tab connected to a navigation controller that's connected to a table view controller. Simple enough, right?

Well, I recently decided to implement left/right swipe gestures as an optional way to navigate left and right to each tab in the tab bar controlled app. The gestures work great, except I don't have a way to implement the gestures on the 3rd tab (the one with the UITableView) because there's no implementation file associated with it.

And that's my question: How can I implement the gestures on the third tab so I can navigate AWAY from it by swiping?? I can swipe into that tab, but not out of it. I'm fairly new to iOS dev, and I really appreciate any help!

(Using ARC, Storyboard, & Xcode 4.5.2)

EDIT: Here's a screenshot of how my Table View Controller is connected to my Tab Bar Controller:

SOLUTION: The answer marked correct is indeed correct. It explained to me how to make a subclass of my UITableViewController. But I was also wondering how to implement my TableView programmatically... so after a bit of searching, this link pretty much shows exactly how to do that: Ruchi Raval's post on mobisoftinfotech. However, I ended up just following the steps in the link, and I ended up deleting my original UITableViewController because I had created a new one through the steps in the link and connected it to my NavigationController through the Storyboard (ctrl + drag).

Hope this helps anyone that had my same quesions!

Answer 1

To control gestures on a VC, you'll need your own subclass. Create a new objective-c object named like MyTableViewController. Xcode lets you specify a superclass when creating the files, use UITableViewController.

Xcode provides some template code in the new files -- leave that alone to begin with. In storyboard, I think the tab you're trying to fix has a navigation (vc) whose root vc is a UITableViewController.

Select that table vc and select the Identity inspector (upper right, third tab from the left). You should see a section called custom class. The current class is probably UITableViewController. Change that to MyTableViewController, or whatever you named the new class.

Build and run. Now you control that table vc. Back in it's implementation file, you can add your gesture code in viewDidLoad:.