prevent uitableView reloading

Question

I am using a uitableView in my application and I want to prevent reloading it in different cases: 1. when I present another modal view on it. 2. row selection happens.

I am not calling [tableview reloadData] in viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear. Is there anyway to prevent this reloading?

Answer 1

Here is a way you can "track" where function calls come from:

1. Add a breakpoint on the function header of the table view's datasource
2. Then run your application with the debugger open and when the breakpoint points to your function header, click to the right of the Thread 1 and you will see how this breakpoint was called/reached

I hope this helps you and hope it was something called by you, the programmer because as you can see in my example, there was only one step that was done by me. How i can tell was the blue person icon next to 6 -[ViewController viewDidLoad]

Answer 2

• (void)reloadData; // reloads everything from scratch. redisplays visible rows. because we only keep info about visible rows, this is cheap. will adjust offset if table shrinks
  maybe can do it in change DataSource