macOS Editable Table Views

Duke Leto said:

I am making an iPhone application and I know that you can edit the information. (press the edit button, every table view is different , then click on one and voila a keyboard/picker/whatever comes up for you to input data). What do I need to be able to do this. What kinds of classes and functions do I need, and what do they need to be able to do?

Thank you in advance for helping.

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Duke Leto said:

I have watched the tutorial on making the edit button that goes into editMode. I have realized a bit better how this works. My new question here is how would I go about adding cells or editing text in a text field... not that much different of a question I realize, but I do not want this thread to drown unanswered.

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- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;

UISimpleTableViewCell *cell = [[[UISimpleTableViewCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero] autorelease];

cell.text = @"Howdy!";
return cell;

lucasgladding said:

I'm still not sure how much detail I want to get into on the forum with the NDA in effect, but here is how I approached editable text fields.

- use custom UITableViewCell with a UITextField as a subview
- override UITableViewCell setSelected: to call makeFirstResponder on the UITextField
- use the view controller viewDidAppear and viewDidDismiss to get the strings from the UITextFields

This is a somewhat different approach than the SQL example, but it works very well for me and requires very little work to implement. That said, I got a few ideas from the example that really helped.

BTW: Offhand, I think you only need the data source methods of UITableView to get the editing functionality.

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