I have a UITableView in my application where I have custom UITableViewCell which contains a UITextField. What I would like to do is get the correct index of the row when I select a particular textfield from that row.
Unfortunately, I am only able to get the correct index of the row if I actually click on the row, and not when I select the textfield itself. I am implementing the <UITextFieldDelegate>, and when I select a particular UITextField, I call the method:
- (BOOL)textFieldShouldBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {
int rowTest = [_table indexPathForSelectedRow].row;
int rowTest1 = [_cell.tireCodeField tag];
NSLog(@"the current row is: %d", rowTest1);
NSLog(@"and this row is: %d", rowTest);
return YES;
}
The problem is that the value for the row that I am getting is from whenever the method:
- (void) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
...
}
gets called. It is as if there is a disconnect between the UITextField and the row in the table it resides in.
Is there a way for me to get the index of the row by selecting the UITextField that resides within it, instead of selecting the row itself?
The way this is usually done, is to give the text field a tag equal to the indexPath.row, or if you have multiple sections, some mathematical combination of the section and row (like 1000*indexPathSection + indexPath.row).