I have a custom tableView cell with a textfield. Now, I want to recognise the textField outside of the tableView delegate method. I tried this-
UIView *cell = textField;
[cell isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]];
but it's not working.
To get concrete cell from table view you need to know index path of this cell. Then you need to do:
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:0]; //you should set your indexes of row and section instead of zeros
MyCustomCell *cell = [myTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
Now if text field is a property of your custom cell you can get it using cell.myTextField
For example:
UITextField *textField = cell.myTextField;
Now you can do what you want with it.
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I'm starting a new project for tvOS. I have created a programmatically UITableView inside my viewcontroller. Inside the UITableView i have created 5 cells. Until now everything works, but the problem happens when i'm trying to programmatically scroll to cell 4 so i'm doing:
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:3
inSection:0];
[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:indexPath
atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop
animated:YES];
But the code above does nothing. It always start at first cell and highlight it as the selected one. I want to be able to programmatically start at another cell and it most be highlight so when i use the arrow keys down or up it scroll from there and not first cell. Please help me in doing that
You should do next:
In viewController that respond for UITableView, implement next function:
- (UIView *)preferredFocusedView {
return self.tableView;
}
where tableView is your table, and after that, override next function
- (NSIndexPath *)indexPathForPreferredFocusedViewInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
return [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:_exerciseIndex inSection:0];
}
where _exerciseIndex index that you need to focus.
I'm having a really weird issue with my custom UITableViewCell. I have a cell with an identifier of "ThreadCell" in Interface Builder with some custom labels. These labels are tagged so I can access them.
In my code, I am doing the following:
static NSString *CellIdentifier = #"ThreadCell";
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
if(cell == nil){
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle: UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier: #"ThreadCell"];
}
Person *person = [self.people objectAtIndex: indexPath.row];
UILabel *nameLabel = (UILabel *)[cell viewWithTag: 0];
nameLabel.text = person.nickname;
return cell;
This seems to work fine, with one exception. The TableView draws like this:
This obviously isn't my custom cell. But the weird thing is, when I tap on a cell, I get this:
This is my custom cell, drawn behind the default cell. What?! I'm not sure how this is happening because I do not ever set the title of the textview anywhere, so I'm not sure where the first John Smith comes from.
Anyone have any ideas?
In your code, you allocate a plain UITableViewCell and not an instance of your custom cell. Setting a reuseIdentifier in initWithStyle is not sufficient to load an instance of a custom cell class.
If you develop for iOS 5 and later, then you can use registerNib:forCellReuseIdentifier: to register a NIB file containing your custom cell. dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier: will then always return an instance of that NIB.
I have custom UITableView and UIImageView, UILabel in it. On some notification I need to update only UILabel not UIImageView. If I do like this:
[self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:idxCell inSection:0]] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
All content of the cell is updating and I have flicker effect for UIImageView.
I've done like this:
MyTableViewCell *cell = (MyTableViewCell *)[self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:idx inSection:0]];
cell.counterLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", counter];
But I think that it is not good, because it is not corresponds to the MVC pattern. I guess I should update my Model object. I need advice, How I can do this?
You should update your NSArray or NSDictionary from where u fetch data. because when u reload row it again call the same dictionary or array and that has same value.
didSelectRowAtIndexPath at update the dictionary or array
and then reload the row.
cellForRowAtIndexPath update that NSArray or NSDictionary which fetch data for row.
May be it works
I need to get the NSIndexPath for a custom cell in a UITableView. Here's the problem: I send a NSNotification from my custom cell to my UITableViewController when editingDidBegin gets called from a UITextField in my custom cell. In my UITableViewController, I resize the UITableView when the UITextField began editing, and then want the table view to scroll to the Cell in which the UITextField is first responder. But I can't figure out how to return the indexPath of the cell where the UITextField is being edited. I have tried so many ways, but its still not working. One way is this: in my cstomCell class i select the row using [self setSelected:YES] and in my TV controller then if I NSLog the row of [self.tableV indexPathForSelectedRow] it always returns 0 even though its always not 0.
Just give the cell a value for its tag property. Then you can get that cell by calling this
UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)[self.tableView viewWithTag:tagValue];
then once you have the cell you can get the NSIndexPath like this
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:nextResponderCell];
Since you have a UITextField in your custom cell you can place cell.textField.delegate = self; in the
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
data source method. That way you will not have to setup a NSNotification in the Custom Cell. Also in this same method you can tag both your cells text field like this cell.textField.tag = indexPath.row; and the cell like this cell.tag = indexPath.row;
Now that you have set the UITextField delegate, you can now place this method in your UITableViewController class
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
CustomCell *cell = (CustomCell *)[self.tableView viewWithTag:textField.tag];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
}
The above UITextField delegate method should get you the indexPath for the cell you have currently selected.
try this code..
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
UITableView *tableView;
UITableViewCell* superViewCell = [self returnSuperCellViewOfTextField:textField];
if(superViewCell)[tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[tableView indexPathForCell:superViewCell] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionMiddle animated:YES];
}
-(id)returnSuperCellViewOfTextField:(id)viewToCheck
{
id superView = [viewToCheck superview];
if([viewToCheck isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]] && superView)return superView;
else if(([viewToCheck respondsToSelector:#selector(superview)] && superView)) return [self returnSuperCellViewOfTextField:superView];
return nil;
}
Does this (your answer that you gave before below)still works if you have multiple texfields in each cell?:
UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)[self.tableView viewWithTag:tagValue];
then once you have the cell you can get the NSIndexPath like this
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:nextResponderCell];
Since you have a UITextField in your custom cell you can place cell.textField.delegate = self; in the
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
data source method. Also in this same method you can tag both your cells text field like this cell.textField.tag = indexPath.row; and the cell like this cell.tag = indexPath.row;
Now that you have set the UITextField delegate, you can now place this method in your UITableViewController class
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
CustomCell *cell = (CustomCell *)[self.tableView viewWithTag:textField.tag];
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForCell:cell];
I have a tableview with 8 cells, and in each cell i have 6 texfields, and also the tableview is dynamic, so the user can insert more cells...but i´m having trouble in how to save the text the user enters in each texfield. Is it possible that with "cell.textField.tag = indexPath.row", the controller identify´s the texfield i´m in?
I like to tag my cells like so:
/* Create a tag based on the section and row of a cell(used to retrive the cell for the beginEditingNextCell method. */
-(NSInteger)tagForIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)path {
return path.section * 1000 + path.row + 1;
}
The other way is to pass the beginEditing data using a custom delegate, and include a cell model, which you can then use to figure out your path depending on how you are storing data.
Check out my github project, it has the code to handle this case, as well as resizing for the keyboard and tabbing to the next editable cell: https://github.com/andrewzimmer906/XCell
I'm having a little problem:
i made my setEditing method:
- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animate {
[super setEditing:editing animated:animate];
[mainTableView reloadData];
}
i'm using the reloadData to call: cellForRowAtIndexPath, and then, if the table is in edit mode, i'll change the appearance of my cell (hiding some labels, for example);
The problem is when i call [mainTableView reloadData] the Edit animation (the red circle slides from left to right and my cell slides to the right) doesn't exist. If don't call it, everything works ok, but i can't customize my cell, since cellForRowAtIndexPath is not called again.
Any suggestion to make it work ??
Thanks!
Maybe you will try to update your table with [tableView beginUpdates] and [tableView endUpdates]? Do you need to reload all the cells or only some of them?
EDIT: Here's the code for reloading all the cells:
[tableView beginUpdates];
NSMutableArray *updatedPaths = [NSMutableArray array];
for (NSNumber *row in yourArray) {
NSIndexPath *updatedPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:[row intValue] inSection:0];
[updatedPaths addObject:updatedPath];
}
[tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:updatedPaths withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationFade];
[tableView endUpdates];
yourArray is NSArray instance where you store your cell.textLabel values or something like that...