[MonoTouch] Now that I can post : Extending the UINavigationController??

[jhandel at gmail.com]

Howdy all,
   Is there a known reason why inheriting UINavigationController would not work the same as directly using the UINavigationController?

this very simple class below (with the constructors just passing to the base and doing nothing else) loads a blank (black) screen.. where as directly creating a UINavigationController works just fine..

public class MyNavViewControllerBase: UINavigationController
    {
        public MyNavViewControllerBase (UIViewController viewController):base(viewController)
        {
            //setBackground(this);
        }

        public MyNavViewControllerBase (NSCoder coder):base(coder)
        {
            //setBackground (this);
        }

        public MyNavViewControllerBase ():base()
        {
            //setBackground (this);
        }

        public MyNavViewControllerBase (IntPtr ptr):base(ptr)
        {
            //setBackground (this);
        }

        public MyNavViewControllerBase (NSObjectFlag flag):base(flag)
        {
            //setBackground (this);
        }

        public MyNavViewControllerBase (string nibName, NSBundle bundle):base(nibName,bundle)
        {
            //setBackground (this);
        }
}

We are initializing our UINavigationController in code in our AppDelegate so there isn't an issue with the NIB here. Ergo

UINavigationController myNavController = new UINavigationController(myfirstViewController);

works fine but

MyNavViewControllerBase myNavController = new MyNavViewControllerBase(myfirstViewController);

just shows a black screen.


Thanks
Josh