I have an app that has a custom button in a custom cell. If you select the cell it segues to the a detail view, which is perfect. If I select a button in a cell, the code below prints the cell index into the console.
I need to access the contents of the selected cell (Using the button) and add them to an array or dictionary. I am new to this so struggling to find out how to access the contents of the cell. I tried using didselectrowatindexpath, but I don't know how to force the index to be that of the tag...
So basically, if there are 3 cells with 'Dog', 'Cat', 'Bird' as the cell.repeatLabel.text in each cell and I select the buttons in the rows 1 and 3 (Index 0 and 2), it should add 'Dog' and 'Bird' to the array/dictionary.
// MARK: - Table View
override func numberOfSectionsInTableView(tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 1
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return postsCollection.count
}
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell: CustomCell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! CustomCell
// Configure the cell...
var currentRepeat = postsCollection[indexPath.row]
cell.repeatLabel?.text = currentRepeat.product
cell.repeatCount?.text = "Repeat: " + String(currentRepeat.currentrepeat) + " of " + String(currentRepeat.totalrepeat)
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryType.DetailDisclosureButton
cell.checkButton.tag = indexPath.row;
cell.checkButton.addTarget(self, action: Selector("selectItem:"), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
return cell
}
func selectItem(sender:UIButton){
println("Selected item in row \(sender.tag)")
}
OPTION 1. Handling it with delegation
The right way of handling events fired from your cell's subviews is to use delegation.
So you can follow the steps:
1. Above your class definition write a protocol with a single instance method inside your custom cell:
protocol CustomCellDelegate {
func cellButtonTapped(cell: CustomCell)
}
2. Inside your class definition declare a delegate variable and call the protocol method on the delegate:
var delegate: CustomCellDelegate?
@IBAction func buttonTapped(sender: AnyObject) {
delegate?.cellButtonTapped(self)
}
3. Conform to the CustomCellDelegate in the class where your table view is:
class ViewController: CustomCellDelegate
4. Set your cell's delegate
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as CustomCell
cell.delegate = self
return cell
}
5. Implement the required method in your view controller class.
EDIT: First define an empty array and then modify it like this:
private var selectedItems = [String]()
func cellButtonTapped(cell: CustomCell) {
let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(cell.center)!
let selectedItem = items[indexPath.row]
if let selectedItemIndex = find(selectedItems, selectedItem) {
selectedItems.removeAtIndex(selectedItemIndex)
} else {
selectedItems.append(selectedItem)
}
}
where items is an array defined in my view controller:
private let items = ["Dog", "Cat", "Elephant", "Fox", "Ant", "Dolphin", "Donkey", "Horse", "Frog", "Cow", "Goose", "Turtle", "Sheep"]
OPTION 2. Handling it using closures
I've decided to come back and show you another way of handling these type of situations. Using a closure in this case will result in less code and you'll achieve your goal.
1. Declare a closure variable inside your cell class:
var tapped: ((CustomCell) -> Void)?
2. Invoke the closure inside your button handler.
@IBAction func buttonTapped(sender: AnyObject) {
tapped?(self)
}
3. In tableView(_:cellForRowAtIndexPath:)
in the containing view controller class :
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("Cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! CustomCell
cell.tapped = { [unowned self] (selectedCell) -> Void in
let path = tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(selectedCell.center)!
let selectedItem = self.items[path.row]
println("the selected item is \(selectedItem)")
}
Since you have 1 section in the table view you can get the cell object as below.
let indexPath = NSIndexPath(forRow: tag, inSection: 0)
let cell = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath) as! CustomCell!
where tag you will get from button tag.
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