UIDatePicker in UITextField in UITableView realtime update

Question

This question has been bugging me a LOT lately. Any help would be appreciated.

These were my objectives:

1. Setup a UIDatePickerView for a UItextField in

Answer 1

This is just a follow up to a flurry of comments on the accepted solution. Thank you all for your help. To make this work, the sample code is as follows:

- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField {

    textFieldThatWillBeUpdatedByTheUIDatePicker = (UITextField *)textField;

}

Where textFieldThatWillBeUpdatedByTheUIDatePicker is declared as a UITextField in the header file.

Finally, here is the method that changes the cell:

- (NSString *)datePickerValueChanged:(UIDatePicker*) datePicker{

    NSDateFormatter *df = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    df.dateStyle = NSDateFormatterMediumStyle;

    textFieldThatWillBeUpdatedByTheUIDatePicker.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[df stringFromDate:datePicker.date]];

}

To handle cell reuse, do what @Deepak said with regards to an array you can use this line:

[dateArray replaceObjectAtIndex:textFieldThatWillBeUpdatedByTheUIDatePicker.tag withObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[df stringFromDate:datePicker.date]]];

Where the tag is set in cellForRowAtIndexPath like this:

textField.tag = indexPath.row;

I'm assuming that the dateArray is pre-populated and prior to the table view getting called for the first time either with real dates or blank values. If you try to replace something that isn't there it is going to fail obviously.

Finally, when the UIDatePicker is being built in cellForRowAtIndexPath include this line to handle the cell reuse:

textField.text = [dateArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

The first time around it may be blank or pre-populated with a date.