Clicking on UITextField in a UITableViewCell

Question

I have an issue where when a textField is clicked on in a UITableViewCell, the method tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: does not get invoked. The problem is, I need to scroll my tableView into proper position, otherwise the keyboard goes right over the first responder.

I have to then move code like this:

[[self tableView] scrollToRowAtIndexPath:indexPath atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];

into both my tableView delegate method and in my UITextField delegate method, textFieldDidBeginEditing:.

Is the best way to just create a new method, pass to it the indexPath of the cell/textfield being clicked, and call the method from both the tableView delegate and the UITextField delegate? better way of going about it?

Answer 1

I found the following works well (It assumes you're in a table view controller)

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{  
    CGPoint pnt = [self.tableView convertPoint:textField.bounds.origin fromView:textField];
    NSIndexPath* path = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:pnt];
    [self.tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:path atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionTop animated:YES];
}