open a New View from a item in a contextual menu

Could you please provide more context? Maybe a screenshot of what you would like to accomplish?

What I can say for now is that you didn’t write anything into the “HelpView” button action. Therefore, it doesn’t do anything.

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If I understand correctly, you should do this:

• create State vars

@State private var showCopyright = false

• Set it in the Action

                        Button(action: {
                            showCopyright = true // Show modal text for copyright
                        }) {
                            Label("Modal Text", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }

• Use it to show the view, in the main part of the body (not in the Menu nor ToolBarItem)

if showCopyright {
   CopyrightView()  // Or whatever you call it ; it could also simply be a Text()
}

• You should have a close button in CopyrightView to hide:

                        Button(action: {
                            showCopyright = false // hide
                        }) {
                            Label("Close", systemImage: "") // Select the appropriate image
                        }

Bonjour Here is my code in context

  import SwiftUI

 struct Bible: View {
@State private var selectedTab = 0

var body: some View {
    
    NavigationView {
        
                        TabView(selection: $selectedTab) {
                View1()
                    .tabItem {
                        Image(systemName: "book")
                        Text("La vue 1")
                    }
                    .tag(0)
                
                    View2()
                   .tabItem {
                    Image(systemName: "heart")
                    Text("La vue 2")
                }
                .tag(1)
                
            }
            //.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
            .navigationBarTitle("Ma page")
            .toolbar {
                ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
                    Menu {
                        
                        NavigationLink(destination:MainView()){
                         Label("MainView", systemImage: "house")
                          }
                        
                        Button(action: {

                            CopyrightView()
                            
                        }) {
                            Label("Copyright", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }
                        
                        Button(action: {
                            NavigationLink(destination:HelpView()){
                             Label("Help", systemImage: "questionmark.circle")
                            }
                            
                        }) {
                        }
                    } label: {
                        Image(systemName: "house")
                    }
                }
            }
            
             }

         }

        }

I try 3 different way to call the view, MainView(), CopyrightView() and HelpView() without success I use a tab view to call View1 and View 2

The menu is shown in View1 and View2 and opens well, but it is not possible to open the 3 views from there

thank you for your help

blessings

David

This is wrong, and should not compile (action cannot call a View directly):

                        Button(action: {
                            CopyrightView()
                        }) {
                            Label("Copyright", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }

You must do what I explained in previous post (refer to it for complete explanation):

                        Button(action: {
                            showCopyright = true // Show modal text for copyright
                        }) {
                            Label("Modal Text", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }

I did exactly as you indicated without success

The code is still wrong?

 import SwiftUI

 struct Bible: View {
 @State private var selectedTab = 0
 @State private var showCopyright = false

var body: some View {

NavigationView {
    
                    TabView(selection: $selectedTab) {
            View1()
                .tabItem {
                    Image(systemName: "book")
                    Text("La vue 1")
                }
                .tag(0)
            
                View2()
               .tabItem {
                Image(systemName: "heart")
                Text("La vue 2")
            }
            .tag(1)
            
        }
        //.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
        .navigationBarTitle("Ma page")
        .toolbar {
            ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
                Menu {
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination:MainView()){
                     Label("MainView", systemImage: "house")
                      }
                    
                    Button(action: {

          showCopyright = true // Show modal text for copyright       
                 
                    }) {
                        Label("Copyright", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                    }
                    
                    Button(action: {
                        NavigationLink(destination:HelpView()){
                         Label("Help", systemImage: "questionmark.circle")
                        }
                        
                    }) {
                    }
                } label: {
                    Image(systemName: "house")
                }
            }
        }
        
         }

     }

 if showCopyright {
 CopyrightView()  // Or whatever you call it ; it could also simply be a Text()
  }


    }

I did exactly as you indicated without success

That's not a very useful feedback. Please explain in detail what you get and what you expect.

Error here: this must be INSIDE body

 if showCopyright {
      CopyrightView()  // Or whatever you call it ; it could also simply be a Text()
  }

Did you define CopyrightView ?

I tested the following code (adding some dummy views definitions that were missing) and it works (except that Button action cannot be a NavigationLink)

                        Button(action: {
                            NavigationLink(destination:HelpView()){
                                Label("Help", systemImage: "questionmark.circle")
                            }

struct View1: View {
    var body: some View {
        
        Text("View1")
    }
}

struct View2: View {
    var body: some View {
        
        Text("View2")
    }
}

struct MainView: View {
    var body: some View {
        
        Text("MainView")
    }
}

struct HelpView: View {
    var body: some View {
        
        Text("HelpView")
    }
}

struct CopyrightView: View {
    var body: some View {
        
        Text("CopyrightView")
    }
}

struct Bible: View {
    @State private var selectedTab = 0
    @State private var showCopyright = false

    var body: some View {
        
        NavigationView {
            
            TabView(selection: $selectedTab) {
                View1()
                    .tabItem {
                        Image(systemName: "book")
                        Text("La vue 1")
                    }
                    .tag(0)
                
                View2()
                    .tabItem {
                        Image(systemName: "heart")
                        Text("La vue 2")
                    }
                    .tag(1)
                
            }
            //.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
            .navigationBarTitle("Ma page")
            .toolbar {
                ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
                    Menu {
                        
                        NavigationLink(destination:MainView()){
                            Label("MainView", systemImage: "house")
                        }
                        
                        Button(action: {
                            showCopyright = true // Show modal text for copyright
                        }) {
                            Label("Copyright", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }
                        
                        Button(action: {
                            print("HELP, you have to change this")
//                            NavigationLink(destination:HelpView()){
//                                Label("Help", systemImage: "questionmark.circle")
//                            }
                            
                        }) {
                            Text("HELP")
                        }
                    } label: {
                        Image(systemName: "house")
                    }
                }
            }
            
        }
        
        if showCopyright {  // MUST BE INSIDE body
            CopyrightView()  // Or whatever you call it ; it could also simply be a Text()
        }
        
    }
    
}

Ok thanks

I think we are not far from the result I expected

this is what I want to achieve?

when the app start it opens a MainView()

here is the MainView code

         import SwiftUI

 struct MainView: View {
var body: some View {
    NavigationView {
        VStack(spacing: 10) {
            Spacer()
            
            Text("Example en panne")
                .font(.system(size: 40))
                
            
                NavigationLink(destination: View1()
                    .navigationBarBackButtonHidden(true)
                ) {
                    VStack {
                        Image(systemName: "book")
                            .resizable()
                            .aspectRatio(contentMode: .fit)
                            .frame(width: 140, height: 140)
                        
                        Text("Ma vue 1")
                            .font(.headline)
                    }
                }
                
        
            
            Spacer()

            
        }
       }
    }
 }

  struct MainView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
   static var previews: some View {
    MainView()
    }
 }






   

from the MainView I call View1 or View2

Here is the code for View1

import SwiftUI

  struct View1: View {
    @State private var selectedTab = 0
   @State private var showCopyright = false

  var body: some View {
    
    
    if showCopyright {  // MUST BE INSIDE body
        MainView()  // Or whatever you call it ; it could also simply be a Text()
    }
    
    NavigationView {
        
                 TabView(selection: $selectedTab) {
                         maPage1()
                     
                    .tabItem {
                        Image(systemName: "book")
                        Text("Page 1")
                    }
                    .tag(0)
                
                    maPage2()
        
                .tabItem {
                    Image(systemName: "heart")
                    Text("Page 2")
                }
                .tag(1)
               
                
                
                
            }
            //.navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline)
            .navigationBarTitle("truc")
            .toolbar {
                ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
                    Menu {
                            
                        Button(action: {
                            showCopyright = true // Show modal text for copyright
                        }) {
                            Label("Copyright", systemImage: "text.book.closed")
                        }
                        
                        Button(action: {
                            // Go to HelpView
                        }) {
                            Label("HelpView", systemImage: "questionmark.circle")
                        }
                    } label: {
                        Image(systemName: "house")
                    }
                                 }
                             }
        
                          
                         }
                         
                        
    
                         
                     }
                     
             
         }

and the CopyrightView is as such:

  import SwiftUI

 struct CopyrightView: View {
  var body: some View {
    Text("Here is the Copyright text en some details about the App")
    }
   }

   struct CopyrightView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
   static var previews: some View {
    CopyrightView()
      }
    }

  

nothing fancy

the behavior I want:

when the app opens, It shows Mainview when I click on the icon for View1 it opens View1 till now all is well

from View1 I want to click on the "house" icon in the contextual Menu to open MainView the problem :

from the contextual Menu, it opens Mainview() now but but only on half of the screen, the other part of the screen still show View1

Before I had nothing when I clicked on the icon for MainView in the contextual menu, now things get better I hope I explain better

Thanks

Bonjour Thank you again for your help

That was easier than expected... After 2 months of hard reading on iOS, swiftui, I think my brain got it and I starting to believe that iOS dev is not unreachable

So the solution for me: use a popover, a sheet view or simply a navigationlink When you don't know, you don't know... we have all been newbies...

example:

inline-code

                  ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
                    Menu {
                        NavigationLink(destination: MainView()
                            .navigationBarBackButtonHidden(true)
                        ) {
                            Label("Accueil", systemImage: "homekit")                            }
                    /// rest of the code 

Merci beaucoup for your help