Swift Change label text color on tap from within TableViewCell

Question

I have a UILabel that is inside a TableView, I want to change the color of the UILabel to red on user tap. I am using a UITapGestureRecognizer and on tapping the UILabel I can get the content of the UILabel but I can't get the actual UILabel since to my knowledge you can't have parameters inside a UIGesture function.

This is my code and it will help clear things up

class HomeProfilePlacesCell: NSObject {

    var Post =  [String]()

    @objc func PostTap(_ sender: UIGestureRecognizer) {
        print(Post[(sender.view?.tag)!])
    }

    func HomeProfilePlaceTVC(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath, streamsModel : streamModel,HOMEPROFILE: HomeProfile, controller: UIViewController) -> UITableViewCell {

         let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "HomeTVC", for: indexPath) as! HomeTVC

         let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(PostTap(_:)))
         tapGesture.delegate = self as? UIGestureRecognizerDelegate
         cell.post.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)

         cell.post.text = streamsModel.Posts[indexPath.row]
         cell.post.tag = indexPath.row
         Post = streamsModel.Posts

         return cell 
    }
}

My function there is PostTap whenever a user taps the UILabel which is the cell.post then I can read it's content inside PostTap but in order to change the color of that UILabel then I'll have to pass the let cell constant into the PostTap function.

Is there anyway I can do that or a work around ? I am new to Swift

Answer 1

Use TableView Delegates: [SWIFT 4.0]

func tableView(tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath)
{
    let cell = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath) as! <your Custom Cell>
    cell.<your CustomCell label name>.textColor = UIColor.red
    //OR
    cell.<your Customcell label name>.backgroundColor = UIColor.green
    tableView.reloadRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: UITableViewRowAnimation.None)
}

func tableView(tableView: UICollectionView, didDeselectItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) 
{
    let cell = tableView.cellForRowAtIndexPath(indexPath) as! <your Custom Cell>

    // change color back to whatever it was
    cell.<your Customcell label name>.textColor = UIColor.black
    //OR
    cell.<your Customcell label name>.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
    tableView.reloadRowsAtIndexPaths([indexPath], withRowAnimation: UITableViewRowAnimation.None)
}