How can I go back to the first view from the third view directly?

When I touch cancel button in the third view, I want to go back to the first view directly. How can I do that?

This is the code.

// this part is in the first view.
SecondController *aSecondController = [[SecondController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *aNaviController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:aSecondController];
self.naviController = aNaviController;
[aNaviController release];
[aSecondController release];
[self.view addSubview:naviControll开发者_StackOverflow中文版er.view];

// this part is in the second view.
ThirdController *thirdController = [[ThirdController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];             
[self.navigationController pushViewController:thirdView];
[thirdView release];

// this part is in the third view.
- (void)cancel {
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO]; // this only goes to the second view.
}

popToViewController, popToRootViewController only go to the second view also.

You can use popToRootViewController:animated: method, if your root view controller is the one you're after. You can also use popToViewController:animated: to specify which controller you want to end up with on the top of the navigation stack.

Use UINavigationControllers -popToRootViewControllerAnimated:

- (void)cancel {
    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}

And if you ever want to pop to a specific view controller you can use popToViewController:animated: and use the viewControllers property to get the view controller at the correct index.

Set up the navigation controller in your app delegate. Make the first view controller the nav controller's root controller instead of having the first view controller own the nav controller. Then you can use -popToRootViewController:animated: as the other answers have suggested.