Programmatically force a UIScrollView to stop scrolling, for sharing a table view with multiple data sources

Question

I have a UITableView whose data source and delegate are switched between a couple of custom data source objects when the user touches a segmented control (think \"Top Paid\"

Answer 1

I used Corey's approach. I save & restore the rects with the dictionary representation. Also, it may not be obvious but the rect to preserve & restore is the bounds of the UITableView:

// Save the current tableview bounds
CGRect contentRect = self.listTableView.bounds;
if (!!oldScope) [_contentRects setObject:(NSObject *)CGRectCreateDictionaryRepresentation(contentRect) forKey:oldScope];

// Restore if possible
CFDictionaryRef restoredFrameDict = (CFDictionaryRef)[_contentRects objectForKey:newScope];
if (!restoredFrameDict) restoredFrameDict = CGRectCreateDictionaryRepresentation(CGRectZero);
CGRectMakeWithDictionaryRepresentation(restoredFrameDict, &contentRect);

// Switch over to new datasource
self.listTableView.dataSource = [self dataSourceForScope:newScope];
[self.listTableView reloadData];

// Restore content offset for "newScope"; Also stops scrolling
[self.listTableView scrollRectToVisible:contentRect animated:NO];

Note the interchangeable use of CFDictionaryRef and NSDictionary *