Detecting which UIButton was pressed in a UITableView

Question

I have a UITableView with 5 UITableViewCells. Each cell contains a UIButton which is set up as follows:

- (UITableView         


        

Answer 1

TO HANDLE SECTIONS - I stored the NSIndexPath in a custom UITableViewCell

IN CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell.xib

IN IB Add UIButton to XIB - DONT add action!

Add outlet @property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *buttonIndexSectionClose;

DO NOT CTRL+DRAG an action in IB(done in code below)

@interface CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell : UITableViewCell
...
@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *buttonIndexSectionClose;
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSIndexPath * indexPathForCell;
@end

In viewForHeaderInSection (should also work for cellForRow.... etc if you table has only 1 section)

- viewForHeaderInSection is called for each section 1...2...3
- get the cell CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell 
- getTableRowHEADER just does the normal dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier
- STORE the indexPath IN the UITableView cell
- indexPath.section = (NSInteger)section
- indexPath.row = 0 always (we are only interested in sections)

- (UIView *) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView1 viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section {


    //Standard method for getting a UITableViewCell
    CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell * cellHEADER = [self getTableRowHEADER];

...use the section to get data for your cell

...fill it in

   indexName        = ffaIndex.routeCode;
   indexPrice       = ffaIndex.indexValue;

   //

   [cellHEADER.buttonIndexSectionClose addTarget:self
                                          action:@selector(buttonDELETEINDEXPressedAction:forEvent:)
                                forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];


   cellHEADER.indexPathForCell = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:section];


    return cellHEADER;
}

USER presses DELETE Button on a Section header and this calls

- (void)buttonDELETEINDEXPressedAction:(id)sender forEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);


    UIView *  parent1 = [sender superview];   // UiTableViewCellContentView
    //UIView *myContentView = (UIView *)parent1;

    UIView *  parent2 = [parent1 superview];  // custom cell containing the content view
    //UIView *  parent3 = [parent2 superview];  // UITableView containing the cell
    //UIView *  parent4 = [parent3 superview];  // UIView containing the table


    if([parent2 isMemberOfClass:[CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell class]]){
        CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell *myTableCell = (CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell *)parent2;

        //UITableView *myTable = (UITableView *)parent3;
        //UIView *mainView = (UIView *)parent4;

        NSLog(@"%s indexPath.section,row[%d,%d]", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, myTableCell.indexPathForCell.section,myTableCell.indexPathForCell.row);

        NSString *key = [self.sortedKeysArray objectAtIndex:myTableCell.indexPathForCell.section];
        if(key){
            NSLog(@"%s DELETE object at key:%@", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,key);
            self.keyForSectionIndexToDelete = key;
            self.sectionIndexToDelete = myTableCell.indexPathForCell.section;

            UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Remove Index"
                                                                message:@"Are you sure"
                                                               delegate:self
                                                      cancelButtonTitle:@"No"
                                                      otherButtonTitles:@"Yes", nil];
            alertView.tag = kALERTVIEW_REMOVE_ONE_INDEX;
            [alertView show];
            [alertView release];
            //------
        }else{
            NSLog(@"ERROR: [%s] key is nil for section:%d", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,myTableCell.indexPathForCell.section);
        }

    }else{
        NSLog(@"ERROR: [%s] CLKIndexPricesHEADERTableViewCell not found", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
    }
}

In this example I added a Delete button so should show UIAlertView to confirm it

I store the section and key into the dictionary storing info about the section in a ivar in the VC

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
   if(alertView.tag == kALERTVIEW_REMOVE_ONE_INDEX){
        if(buttonIndex==0){
            //NO
            NSLog(@"[%s] BUTTON:%d", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,buttonIndex);
            //do nothing
        }
        else if(buttonIndex==1){
            //YES
            NSLog(@"[%s] BUTTON:%d", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,buttonIndex);
            if(self.keyForSectionIndexToDelete != nil){

                //Remove the section by key
                [self.indexPricesDictionary removeObjectForKey:self.keyForSectionIndexToDelete];

                //sort the keys so sections appear alphabetically/numbericsearch (minus the one we just removed)
                [self updateTheSortedKeysArray];                

                //Delete the section from the table using animation
                [self.tableView beginUpdates];

                [self.tableView deleteSections:[NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex:self.sectionIndexToDelete]
                              withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationAutomatic];
                [self.tableView endUpdates];

                //required to trigger refresh of myTableCell.indexPathForCell else old values in UITableViewCells
                [self.tableView reloadData];
            }else{
                NSLog(@"ERROR: [%s] OBJECT is nil", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
            }
        }
        else {
            NSLog(@"ERROR: [%s] UNHANDLED BUTTON:%d", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,buttonIndex);
        }
    }else {
        NSLog(@"ERROR: [%s] unhandled ALERTVIEW TAG:%d", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__,alertView.tag);
    }
}