presentModalViewController does not work if called too early

Question

If I dismiss the the modal VC and present it (or another one) again in less than a certain amount of time, it does not appear. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Yes, you can't do that. I'm assuming what you did is something like this:

 [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
 [self presentModalViewController:myNewController animated:YES];

This doesn't work. I don't know exactly why, but it is related to the animations I believe. Your options are to either dismiss the first one without animation, or else wait to present the new one in viewDidAppear of the parent, (or possibly viewDidDisappear for the previous modal view, not sure if that works though).