SideMenu Warning: menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent for the right side was called before menuRightNavigationController has been defined. The gesture will not work without a menu.

[hemangshah]

I have read the guidelines for contributing and I understand:

• [x] My issue is happening in the latest version of SideMenu.
• [x] My issue was not solved in the README.
• [x] My issue can not be answered on stackoverflow.com.
• [x] My issue is not a request for new functionality that I am unwilling to build and contribute with a pull request.
• [x] My issue is reproducible in the demo project.

Issue Description

Getting this warning:

SideMenu Warning: menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent for the right side was called before menuRightNavigationController has been defined. The gesture will not work without a menu.

Note: I am not setting side menu for the right side.

[jonkykong]

Then ignore the warning or call it only for the left menu.

[hemangshah]

But why it's giving me this warning this is more important then to ignore. I can't ignore a single warning because of the project I am working on. These small warnings create problem in future.

[jonkykong]

@hemangshah you need to read the README more carefully as well as investigate the code and problems first before opening issues. You have opened several issues and commented on several other issues in this repository which suggest to me that you prefer to open issues instead of investigating things yourself.

As I said, call the menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent for the left side menu only and you will not get this warning any further.

[hemangshah]

Yeah, I will open up an issue as long as I couldn't find my self a solution in the demo itself. As this repo is having more than 1500 stars it's likely for my belief that, @jonkykong (you) will provide a great support for this component. For a good note, if someone will open an issue here instead of closing them directly, you should check and provide a solution for that then only people will think to pay you for your hard work for this component else no one! If you created something nice, it's your responsibility to support it if you have to open it to the public. And thanks for the solution in the last comment, I will try to check with it.

[hemangshah]

For everyone else,

This is the code snippet to fix this:

SideMenuManager.menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent(toView: self.navigationController!.view, forMenu: .left)

[jonkykong]

@hemangshah with all due respect, you should not _expect_ any support from me, and try to resolve issues on your own whenever possible. I have spent my free time putting this library together, but that does not also require me to maintain it and provide support at all. It is a courtesy that I provide when I have time. I do not owe you or anyone else my time for something I am giving away for free.

You will not know this until you provide a popular library yourself, but ongoing support takes up a _lot_ of time and I'm not getting compensated for that. I guarantee you that no one will compensate me if I provide additional support; it's a nice idea but it just does not happen -- if you would like to be the first to prove me wrong, be my guest. This is why I close issues without responding with further detail, because there are an endless amount of these requests opened by people who don't bother to read or investigate things themselves.

I want people to open up issues only when there is a real bug, and in this instance there was no bug. If you had taken a peek at the underlying code you would have discovered how to resolve this (faster) without opening an issue and waiting for me to respond.

[hemangshah]

I appreciate your comments and agrees with it !! @jonkykong

[hemangshah]

@jonkykong – How to remove a SideMenu completely, I am adding a comment in this task and not opening another Issue here 👍 I wish I will get an answer from you.

I have requirements to change the UI forcefully based on the language. I have two languages for my app. English and Arabic. So with case Arabic language, I have to show the SideMenu from Right to Left. I am able to set up the right navigation controller for SideMenu but it only works for two times then it is crashing. So I am thinking to remove it completely and then re-add it. Is there a way to remove it? I tried setting nil to menuLeft.. and menuRight.. properties but they don't work for me.

[jonkykong]

@hemangshah you need to troubleshoot your problem more thoroughly yourself before asking. Look into why it's crashing and see if you can correct for that.

[hemangshah]

Yeah, I have tried checking and finding the real problem for few hours then I raised this comment. I still looking for if there's a way to remove SideMenu completely?

[jonkykong]

You need to investigate and provide more details:

• What happens when you set the menu to nil? How does it "not work"? What are the values of the properties _before_ and _after_ you set them? What line of code is preventing it from working the way you expect?
• What is the crash that occurs? What line of code is the crash occurring on? What action did you perform that causes the crash? Why does it work "two times" before crashing? What changed between the two working times and the time that it crashed?