is it possible to segue from a UITableViewCell on a UIView to another view

Question

Xcode 4.6.1 iOS 6 using storyboards

My problem is this

I have a UITableView with dynamic prototype cells on a UIView in a UIViewController (that is itself e

Answer 1

First of all segues can be use only between UIViewControllers. So in case you want to perform a segue between two views that are on the same view controller, that's impossible.

But if you want to perform a segue between two view controllers and the segue should be trigger by an action from one view (inside first view controller) well that's possible.

So in your case, if I understand the question, you want to perform a segue when the first cell of a UITableView that's inside of a custom UIView is tapped. The easiest approach would be to create a delegate on your custom UIView that will be implemented by your UIViewController that contains the custom UIView when the delegate method is called you should perform the segue, here is a short example:

YourCustomView.h

@protocol YourCustomViewDelegate 

-(void)pleasePerformSegueRightNow;

@end

@interface YourCustomView : UIView {
   UITableView *theTableView; //Maybe this is a IBOutlet
}
@property(weak, nonatomic) iddelegate;

YourCustomview.m

@implementation YourCustomview
@ synthesise delegate;

//make sure that your table view delegate/data source are set properly
//other methods here maybe

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    if(indexPath.row == 0) {  //or any other row if you want
       if([self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(pleasePerformSegueRightNow)]) {
          [self.delegate pleasePerformSegueRightNow];
       }
    }
} 

YourTableViewController.h

@interface YourTableViewController : UIViewController  {
  //instance variables, outlets and other stuff here
}

YourTableViewController.m

@implementation YourTableViewController

-(void)viewDidLoad {
  [super viewDidLoad]; 
  YourCustomView *customView = alloc init....
  customView.delegate = self;
}

-(void)pleasePerformSegue {
  [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"YourSegueIdentifier"];
}

You can create any methods to your delegate or you can customise the behaviour, this is just a simple example of how you can do it.