iPhone - How to determine in which cell a button was pressed in a custom UITableViewCell

Question

I currently have a UITableView that is populated with a custom UITableViewCell that is in a separate nib. In the cell, there are two buttons that are wired to actions in th

Answer 1

I have the same scenario. To achieve this, I derived a custom cell. I added two properties, section and row. I also added an owner, which would be my derived TableViewController class. When the cells are being asked for, I set the section/row based on the indexPath, along with the owner.

cell.section = indexPath.section cell.row = indexPath.row cell.owner = self

The next thing that I did was when I created the buttons, I associate the button events with the cell rather than with the tableViewController. The event handler can read the section and row entry and send the appropriate message (or event) to the TableViewController. This greatly simplifies house keeping and maintenance by leveraging existing methods and housekeeping and keeping the cell as self contained as possible. Since the system keeps track of cells already, why do it twice!