Two buttons in a UITableViewCell: How to tell which indexPath was selected?

Question

I want to place two buttons in each table view cell. When I click on button number one I want the app to show an alert message: \"You tapped button1 at indexpath:3,0\". My

Answer 1

Using indexPath as the tag value is OK when you have only one button in a UITableCell but if you want to track more you can use modulo operator:

    - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:              
    (NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    ...
    imageButton1.tag=indexPath.row*2; 
    [imageButton1 addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonPushed:)
    [cell.contentView addSubview:imageButton];


    ...
    imageButton2.tag=indexPath.row*2+1; 
    [imageButton2 addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonPushed:)
    [cell.contentView addSubview:imageButton];

for the selector you can distinguish between the buttons and get the indexPath like this:

-(void) buttonPushed:(id)sender{
 UIButton *button = (UIButton *)sender;

    switch (button.tag%2) {
        case 0:  // imageButton1 is pressed

// to reach indexPath of the cell where the button exists you can use:
//         ((button.tag-button.tag%2)/2)

        break;

        case 1: // imageButton2 is pressed

        break;
    }

The example is for 2 buttons but you can adjust it according to the number of buttons.