Managing Delegate of UITextFields in Custom UITableViewCell

Question

So I have looked around a quite a bit, and nothing on here seems to explain exactly the correct way of doing this. I have 7 UITextFields within a custom UITableViewCell.

Answer 1

You shouldn't have a problem setting the delegate of the cell's text field to be your view controller.

This is what you need to do:

1) The view controller needs to implement the UITextFieldDelegate protocol

2) Declare a property for the text field in your custom cell

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITextField *textField;

3) Then set the view controller as the text field's delegate in the method cellForRowAtIndexPath

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"Cell";

    MyCustomCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];

    if (cell == nil) 
    {  
        // use this if you created your cell with IB
        cell = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"MyCustomCell" owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];   

        // otherwise use this  
        cell = [[[MyCustomCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease]; 


        // now set the view controller as the text field delegate  
        cell.textField.delegate = self;
    }

    // configure cell...

    return cell;
}